Stereotype on packages

[Dave Couture]

I'm working on an add-in that initialize packages, diagrams and elements based on their stereotype. Adding diagrams and elements with stereotype is working fine, but I'm not able to add a package with a stereotype.

I tried different options to set the package stereotype without any success  :-?.

The first easy one that wasn't working:

public EA.Package AddPackage(string name, string stereotype)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(name)) throw new ArgumentNullException("name");

    Package package = (Package)this._package.Packages.AddNew(name, "Nothing");

    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(stereotype))
    {
        package.StereotypeEx = stereotype;
    }
    package.Update();
    this._package.Packages.Refresh();

    return package;
}

The second one that wasn't working to:

public EA.Package AddPackage(string name, string stereotype)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(name)) throw new ArgumentNullException("name");

    Package package = (Package)this._package.Packages.AddNew(name, "Nothing");

    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(stereotype))
    {
        IDualPackage idualPackage = (IDualPackage)package;
        idualPackage.StereotypeEx = stereotype;
    }
    package.Update();
    this._package.Packages.Refresh();

    return package;
}

Am I missing something?

Strange that we could access the StereotypeEx property but it is not explain on the documentation (see http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/sdk_for_enterprise_architect/package_2.htm).

I'm stock since my add-in is based on stereotype to determine with initialization action to take based on the stereotype.

Thanks for helping.

[stao]

hi,
this is how it works for me:

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EA.Package newTGGProject = (EA.Package)currentPackage.Packages.AddNew(tggProjectName, "");
newTGGProject.Update();
newTGGProject.Element.Stereotype = "TGGPackage";
currentPackage is the root package in the .eap file.
newTGGProject.Element is the element linked to the package.
each package in ea has a linked element.

stao

[Dave Couture]

Thanks!