Add component from eCatalog

.Net Add-on Programming
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You can add reference to VisualComponents.eCatalogue.DataModel.dll and then do something like this. I didn’t test it so handling details such as file paths etc. might be wrong.

using Caliburn.Micro;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using VisualComponents.Create3D;
using VisualComponents.eCatalogue.DataModel.Data;
using VisualComponents.eCatalogue.DataModel.Data.Entities;

namespace ECatAdder
{
    class ECatAdderTest
    {
        private List<Item> eCatComponentCache;

        public ISimComponent AddComponent(IApplication app, string componentVCID)
        {

            if (eCatComponentCache == null)
            {
                eCatComponentCache = EnumerateECatComponents();
            }

            var eCatItem = eCatComponentCache.FirstOrDefault(i => i.VCID == componentVCID && i.IsLocalItem);
            if (eCatItem == null) throw new ArgumentException("Unknown VCID");

            ISimComponent[] loadedComponents = app.LoadLayout(new Uri(eCatItem.FileUri));
            return loadedComponents.FirstOrDefault();

        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Queries the local eCatalog SQL database for all components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        private List<Item> EnumerateECatComponents()
        {
            var eCatContext = IoC.Get<IECatDataContext>();
            var eCatItems = eCatContext.EnabledItems;

            // Need to get all to a list first so Entity Framework doesn't try to convert the Where clause to SQL.
            return eCatItems.ToList()
                            .Where(i => !i.IsDeprecated && i.ModelType == "Component")
                            .ToList();
        }

    }
}

 

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