[CONNECT .NET] MdlApplicationClass

Hi Jon Summers,

this information "might" be passed to an AddIn as shown in the code sample below. It is not well tested and probably not documented, so try it and let us know :-)

Tom

namespace Xyz
{
    [Bentley.MstnPlatformNET.AddIn(MdlTaskID = "xyz")]
    internal sealed class App : Bentley.MstnPlatformNET.AddIn
    {
        private App(System.IntPtr mdlDesc) : base(mdlDesc)
        {}

        protected override int Run(string[] commandLine)
        {
            switch (commandLine[1])
            {
                case "COMMANDREQUESTED":
                    // AddIn loaded by keyin from ribbon
                    break;
                    
                case "USER":
                    // AddIn loaded from (start script) keyin; "mdl silentload xyz"
                    break;
                    
                case "FIRSTDGNFILE":
                    // AddIn loaded as MS_DGNAPPS
                    break;
                    
                default:
                    // there may be other
                    break;
            }
            return 0;
        }
    }
}

commandLine[]

Tomáš Juřík said:

this information "might" be passed to an AddIn

When an AddIn is loaded, whatever the language used to create it, MicroStation passes at least two arguments that are received by the commandLine string array.

The first argument (commandLine[0]) is the AddIn name.

Tomáš Juřík said:

It is probably not documented

The command-line argument values used to be documented, many years ago, in the days of MDL.  Like much of the infrastructure of MicroStation development, they have dropped out of the documentation.

Tomáš Juřík said:

try it and let us know

I have tried it.  Who is 'we'? Your bio is empty.

MdlApplicationClass

But that isn't my question, which is about MdlApplicationClass.  If the Bentley C++ developers introduced that enum, and the functions to get/set its value, they presumably had a reason that isn't satisfied by examining the commandLine.  Why can't it be echoed in .NET?

Jon Summers said:

I have tried it.  Who is 'we'? Your bio is empty.

I meant "we" as us, the readers of this post.

Jon Summers said:

But that isn't my question, which is about MdlApplicationClass.

Yes, you are right. Another non-equivalent might be the enum MdlApplicationType returned by the Bentley.MstnPlatformNET.AddIn.ApplicationType property.

Tom

Jon Summers said:

I have tried it.  Who is 'we'? Your bio is empty.

I meant "we" as us, the readers of this post.

Jon Summers said:

But that isn't my question, which is about MdlApplicationClass.

Yes, you are right. Another non-equivalent might be the enum MdlApplicationType returned by the Bentley.MstnPlatformNET.AddIn.ApplicationType property.

Tom

Tomáš Juřík said:

Another non- equivalent might be the enum MdlApplicationType returned by the Bentley.MstnPlatformNET.AddIn.ApplicationType property

Well-spotted: it provides the same set of values as the C++ enum MdlApplicationClass.  But why did they change the name?