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  • Loading MDL Applications automatically

    Product(s): OpenBuildings Designer Version(s): CONNECT Edition Area: General Subarea: MDL Application Problem description: How can I load MDL Applications automatically? Solution: Below is the workflow…
  • - Automatically execute commands upon file open [XFM project]

    Users leveraging OpenCities Map XFM projects are able to execute key-in commands upon project open via definition of MS_GEOINITCMD as a macro (variable definition) within the XFM project, for a given XFM project workset. Is there a likewise strategy…
  • InitApp CONNECT Edition

    A MicroStation InitApp is a non-interactive app that is started using the Windows command-line -wa AppName switch, or is listed in the MS_INITAPPS configuration variable. The V8 SDK provides an InitApp example, but it didn't make it as far as CONNECT…
  • [CONNECT C++] MS_INITAPPS and log4net

    I've developed an example InitApp for the CONNECT era, currently Update 15. I have a working InitApp but it displays a message about log4net . Here's a screenshot of the message, also showing a trace of the InitApp command-line arguments... My guess…
  • [C# MicroStation CONNECT update 15] Does MicroStation API's provide logging capabilities?

    What is the suggested way for logging an MDL app that is loaded with no MicroStation UI through MS_INITAPPS? I tried the basic Console.WriteLine but nothing ever gets printed on the Windows cmd window. I have some System.Console.WriteLine( ) within the…
  • Re: A .Net AddIn doesn't get autoloading after I moved to Windows7

    Application Start-Up twegener said: The next time I launched MicroStation the DLL gets loaded automatically A pure MDL application is loaded in the following circumstances … Explicitly using keyin MDL LOAD APP_NAME Automatically, if either…
  • Re: V8i and C# InitApp examples ?

    Unknown said: I don't know how to open Microstation MainForm or to avoid Microstation exiting at the end of mi initapp You need to open a DGN file. When used as an MS_INITAPPS , MicroStation remains active only as long as a DGN file is open.…
  • Re: Developing external MS application

    MS_INITAPPS The traditional way to do what you want is to write an MDL or native-code application that can be loaded as an MS_INITAPPS . The application is specified either in the MS_INITAPPS variable or as a start-up using the -wa command-line…