Lesson 1 exercise solutions

This section contains sample code that solves each of the exercises in this lesson.

• Exercise 1

  static void PrintElementTemplates(AFDatabase database)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Print Element Templates");
  AFNamedCollectionList<AFElementTemplate> elemTemplates =
  database.ElementTemplates.FilterBy(typeof(AFElement));
  foreach (AFElementTemplate elemTemp in elemTemplates)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}; Categories: {1}", elemTemp.Name,
  elemTemp.CategoriesString);
  }
  
  Console.WriteLine();
  }

• Exercise 2

  static void PrintAttributeTemplates(AFDatabase database, string elemTempName)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Print Attribute Templates for Element Template:
  {0}", elemTempName);
  AFElementTemplate elemTemp = database.ElementTemplates[elemTempName];
  foreach (AFAttributeTemplate attrTemp in elemTemp.AttributeTemplates)
  {
  string drName = attrTemp.DataReferencePlugIn ==
  null ? "None" : attrTemp.DataReferencePlugIn.Name;
  Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}, DRPlugin: {1}", attrTemp.Name, drName);
  }
  Console.WriteLine();
  }

• Exercise 3

  static void PrintEnergyUOMs(PISystem system)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Print Energy UOMs");
  UOMClass uomClass = system.UOMDatabase.UOMClasses["Energy"];
  foreach (UOM uom in uomClass.UOMs)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("UOM: {0}, Abbreviation: {1}", uom.Name,
  uom.Abbreviation);
  }
  Console.WriteLine();
  }

  Note that the UOMDatabase belongs to PISystem and is not exclusive to an AFDatabase.

• Exercise 4

  static void PrintEnumerationSets(AFDatabase database)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Print Enumeration Sets");
  AFEnumerationSets enumSets = database.EnumerationSets;
  foreach (AFEnumerationSet enumSet in enumSets)
  {
  Console.WriteLine(enumSet.Name);
  foreach (AFEnumerationValue state in enumSet)
  {
  int stateValue = state.Value;
  string stateName = state.Name;
  Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", stateValue, stateName);
  }
  
  Console.WriteLine();
  }
  }

• Exercise 5

  static void PrintCategories(AFDatabase database)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("Print Categories");
  AFCategories elemCategories = database.ElementCategories;
  AFCategories attrCategories = database.AttributeCategories;
  
  Console.WriteLine("Element Categories");
  foreach (AFCategory category in elemCategories)
  {
  Console.WriteLine(category.Name);
  }
  
  Console.WriteLine();
  Console.WriteLine("Attribute Categories");
  foreach (AFCategory category in attrCategories)
  {
  Console.WriteLine(category.Name);
  }
  
  Console.WriteLine();
  }