Using the API Sample Client

This section describes how to utilize the API sample client as a standalone version and as an add-in component.

The standalone version of the sample program is erwinSpy.NET.x64.exe. You can build erwinSpy.NET to create erwinSpy.NET.x64.exe. This program is a erwin DM model data browser that you can use to research data internals, such as the metamodel, model data, and model objects and their properties.

Using erwinSpy.NET.x64.exe, you can open a *.erwin file by clicking Open on the File menu. When a model is opened or selected from File menu, model objects from the model are displayed in the left pane. You can view a model object's hierarchy (parents and children) and properties by double-clicking on the object.

You can access the model data and metamodel information from the Models menu. Use the Models submenu to access the model data and the MetaModels, EM2 ModelSets, EM2 ModelSets Meta submenus to access the metamodel data.

The add-in version of the sample program is erwinSpy_Addin.NET project. You can use the erwinSpy_Addin.NET to create a 64-bit (erwinSpy_AddIn.NET.x64.dll) add-in component. The add-in component runs when you select it from the Tools, Add-Ins menu. After you build the add-in component with the erwinSpy_Addin.NET project, you must register it.