4.2 Step 2: Creating the .Net assemblies
The next step is to create the wrapper classes (Figure 8). For this stage, make sure that the OpenMI Software Development Kit is installed on your PC.
Fig 8. C# wrapping classes
Load the .NET development environment. You should create one assembly for your wrapper classes and it is strongly recommended that you also create one assembly for the corresponding test classes.
You should use the following naming conventions for your wrapper assembly:
Assembly name: MyOrganisation.OpenMI.MyModel
Assembly DLL name: MyOrganisation.OpenMI.MyModel.DLL
Namespace: MyOrganisation.OpenMI.MyModel
Class names: MyModelEngineWrapper, MyModelEngineDotNetAccess, MyModelEngineDLLAccess, MyModelLinkableComponent
Naming conventions for the test assembly:
Assembly name: MyOrganisation.OpenMITest.MyModel
Assembly DLL name: MyOrganisation.OpenMITest.MyModel.DLL
Namespace: MyOrganisation.OpenMI.MyModel
Class names: MyModelEngineWrapperTest, MyModelEngineDotNetAccessTest, MyModelEngineDLLAccessTest, MyModelLinkableComponentTest
Now install the NUnit test software (see Chapter 6)
To the wrapper assembly, add the following references:
Org.OpenMI.Standard
Org.OpenMI.Backbone
Org.OpenMI.Utilities.Wrapper
To the test assembly, add the following references:
Org.OpenMI.Standard
Org.OpenMI.Backbone
Org.OpenMI.Utilities.Wrapper
NUnit.framework
MyOrganisation.OpenMI.MyModel
After creating the assemblies and the classes, you can start working on the first class,
MyEngineDLLAccess. Details are given in the next section.
