EA Explorer AddIn available

[g.makulik]

Hi all,

I'm proud to announce that I have just released the 1st version of the
free EA-Explorer Addin:
http://makulik.github.com/EA-Explorer/

This is a little tool aimed to help EA AddIn developers with deep inspection of EAs Object API objects.

It's based on geerts great EA Add-in Framework:
http://geertbellekens.github.com/Enterprise-Architect-Add-in-Framework/

Hope someone finds this useful.

Best regards,
Günther

[Maggie]

Hi Gunther
I downloaded your addin and the dependency projects.
Then I ran the MSI file which succeeded and updated the EAAddins registry entry as expected.
However, When I run EA the EAExplorer addin is reported as missing?
What did I do wrong?

Thanks

Maggie

[Makulik]

Hi Maggie,

Did you use the prepared msi from the download or did you compile and install the EAExplorer_Setup from the Solution?
The prepared msi was created using SharpDevelop4 on my Windows 7 64 bit machine at home. May be you have either a problem with 32/64 bit compatibility or .NET 4.0 framework components missing on your machine.
Feel free to contact my via PM (on the other account please) and let's see what we can do to solve this.

Best regards,
Günther

[Maggie]

PM Sent

[g.makulik]

OK, there are appearantly problems with the EAExplorer_Setup.msi, others reported the same error. Some dependeny .dll registration seems to be missing. I'm investgating on this.
Meanwhile you may try to compile and setup the AddIn yourself.

Best regards,
Günther

[g.makulik]

I don't think it's worth reinventing the wheel. There's already a tool that exactly achieves what I intended with EA Explorer:

EnAr Spy by LieberLieber (http://blog.lieberlieber.com/2011/03/01/free-tool-enar-spy-for-enterprise-architect/).

It even implements the additional direct SQLquery feature I planned, and some additional stuff.

If anyone is interested in downloading EAExplorer as an example for using Geert Bellekens EAAddin Framework and to inspect some of it's internals, feel free. I'll keep the project existing on GitHub.

The look and feel I intended was different from EnAr Spy though. Using a tool window for displaying the properties and collections may be a bit smoother when invesigating the EA model API.
For the SQl query I planned to use ic#code's ICSharpCode.TextEditor to have SQl syntax coloring, and maybe some kind of intellisense specialized to the EA specific DB model.

I will personally get back to my main goal for now, and leave EA Explorer behind. If someone is interested to develop it further I'll give any support necessary.

Best regards,
Günther