Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

The fist beta version of IntraWeb-ECO templates is now available. BDS 2006 and IntraWeb 9.0 are required.

To develop IntraWeb applications that can talk to ECO models, you can use our IntraWeb-ECO templates to get started.

Follow the steps below to get started:

• download the the template files and unzip them
• copy and/or rename the unzipped directory to a place where you want to start your first IW-ECO application.
• start BDS 2006 (its .NET personality) and open IWEcoStandalone.dpr
• compile and try to run – you should get no compilation errors, and an empty ItraWeb application running
• now go to the ModelView in BDS 2006 and locate “package1″ and start adding classes.
• recompile and go to EcoPersistenceMapperProvider in the project manager and re-create the schema.
• there is a sample.mdb in this template which should work out of the box with your model.
• Go to FormMainU in the project manger.
• To get access to an ECO Space instance access it via “UserSession.EcoSpace” and start accessing your ECO objects

More detailed documentation to come later.

For Highlander, the next Delphi.NET version, there will be different templates, as there ECO will provide VCL data binding.

Note: This is a beta version. We are working on integrating that more tightly with Delphi/IntraWeb.

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