Where are Cloud Service Database Manager configurations stored?

[dougb628]

We have an EA add-in that currently offers an alternative UI for opening projects. It queries our SQL Server for all database names, and for those whose names match our EA database naming convention, it creates a list of possible EA projects to open. This list is displayed in a standard dialog, and then you can either double-click one of the names, or select one then click OK to open that project.

We're in the process of transitioning to using Cloud Services to open our EA projects, for security reasons, and want to modify this add-in to be based upon the existing cloud service database manager configurations, since those really represent which projects you can actually open. If an EA database does not have a matching cloud service database manager configured, you cannot open that EA project via cloud services.

We have done some basic searching on our cloud service machine, but have not found anything. At one point we uninstalled and re-installed the cloud service and noticed that our database managers survived that process. That implied to me that they were stored in the registry. But we never found them there.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Doug Belkofer
Senior Solutions Architect
Imagine Solutions, LLC

[qwerty]

I have no idea of this cloud stuff. But there are two usual suspects: a) %appdata% in Sparx' folder and b) the registry. If it were (unlikely) c) the database: I'm out anyway. Sorry.

q.

[dougb628]

We searched appdata too, although the methods we used to do the search could probably be improved. I know we tried the search built into Windows File Explorer and using the FINDSTR.EXE command line tool. I may have to break down and try the Sysinternals Process Monitor tool, which could tell me what the application is modifying - files, the registry, or what. I wonder if it's compressing or encrypting the information, and that's why I'm not finding it.

[qwerty]

Finding things in files is usually easiest if you record the modification stamps. Then you do a change in EA and look once again. Next would then be to compare the before and after snapshots. (Or maybe a kind supporter soul will whisper the secret)

q.