Introduction to ELMA3 development

Required software

• MS Visual Studio 2010 (Professional or higher) / 2013/2015/2017 (Community or higher)
• ASP .NET MVC4 http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4

Technologies

Core

• .NET 4.0 C#
• Autofac (IoC container) (version 2.2.4)
• NHibernate (ORM) (version 4.0.4)
• log4net (Logging)
• AutoMapper (to transform between NHibernate entities and objects to work in ELMA Designer via Remoting)

Web Application

• Microsoft MVC 4.0
• JQuery (version 1.6.2)

ELMA Designer

• WinForms
• Microsoft Composite Application Block
• DotNetBar (Visual Component Library, 12.8.0.8)

To learn the basics of ELMA3 development, start with the following articles:

General information

Naming agreement

Architecture

• Object model architecture
• System core architecture
• ELMA Designer architecture
• Component model

Developing back-end extensions

• Creating a module for ELMA
• Actions in objects and managers
• Creating access permissions for the object instances

Data model

• Entities
• Entity managers
• Creating a server module for ELMA

 Web Application

• Creating a web module for ELMA
• Tooltips
• Structure of web modules

ELMA Designer (coming soon)

• Creating a new module in the designer
• Items of the application ribbon (toolbar and status bar)

Optimization and additional information

• Caching
• Database optimization
• Storing and displaying object history