Creating an external .exe application to access EA Repository

[Luis J. Lobo]

Hi, everybody!

I'm creating an external application (MyApp.exe) in C# which connects to an EA Repository using its API (InteropEA.dll).

When I run 'MyApp.exe' on a PC with EA installed, everything is fine. But when I run 'MyApp.exe' on a PC without EA installed, it fails even though I have deployed it with the 'InteropEA.dll' library.

Does anyone know if it is necessary to install the EA client on the PC where 'MyApp.exe' is going to run? Is not enough with some libraries?

Thanks in advance,

Luis

[qwerty]

Yes. You need the key along with EA.

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

The InteropEA.dll is merely the API that allows you to interact with the application, but you need to the whole application to do do anything.

This is similar to using something like Word or Excel using their API. You can't do that if you haven't installed Office.

Geert

[Luis J. Lobo]

Thank you, querty, Geert!