Technical FAQ

Software requirements

To obtain the source code of EwE 5 and 6, you will need the following:

• A Subversion client such as ?TortoiseSVN
• Log-in access to this site, contact us if you require this.
• Use the following URL to access the Subversion repository: http://sources.ecopath.org/svn/Ecopath/trunk/Ecopath6.

To compile the source code of EwE 6, you will need:

• Microsoft Windows XP or newer. The EwE6 sources are not ?MONO compliant.
• ?Microsoft Visual Basic Express 2010 or ?Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
• ?Microsoft Jet Engine 4.0 for using MDB databases. Native to Windows XP and newer.

To connect to .eweaccdb, .accdb databases you will need:

• ?Microsoft 2007 Office drivers for using ACCDB databases. Installed with Office 2007, and native to Windows Vista and newer.

To compile the source code of EwE5, you require:

• ?Microsoft Visual Basic 6.
• Windows XP. Visual Basic 6 does not work well on the 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can develop using Windows' excellent ?Virtual PC.

Code documentation

• Documenting your code - How to write and publish in-code documentation with Visual Studio and ?SandCastle

Coding issues

We've ran into a series of limitations and oddities that we want to prevent from happening. Here are a few links that convey some of our experiences:

• Best practices, coding guidelines and user interface design guidelines
• Solving key EwE6 source code errors