Use AVEVA Standalone

To build and run the sample code.

1. Extract the contents of the Samples.zip file and navigate to the StandaloneExample folder.

   

   The StandaloneExample folder is populated with the following files:

   

2. Invoke a Visual Studio Command Prompt and navigate to the StandaloneExample folder.

3. Make sure that the AVEVA_DESIGN_EXE environment variable is set to the installation directory of the Aveva application, for example, AVEVA E3D Design.

   SET AVEVA_DESIGN_EXE=C:\Program Files (x86)\AVEVA\

   Everything3D2.10

4. Open the AvevaStandalone.sln (solution) file.

   

5. If required, modify the contents of the app.config file to point to the current installation directories.

   The app.config file contains the configuration parameters and environment variables required by AVEVA Standalone:

   

   

6. Compile and build the Visual Studio project to generate the AvevaStandaloneE3D.exe.config file. The AvevaStandaloneE3D.exe.config file is placed in the target directory.

7. Read the Standalone.cs configuration file into a hashtable to pass it to the start method of AVEVA Standalone.

   

   The following example displays some basic API calls that are available.