Migrating an STK 9 Engine Application to STK 10

Major releases of AGI applications can run side by side (for example, STK 9 and STK 10 can be running at the same time on the same machine). In order to have this functionality, different GUIDs, ProgIDs, type libraries, and namespaces are created for each major release. What does this mean for your STK Engine Application? It means that STK Engine Applications are targeted specifically for a major release, and you need to make minimal code changes to your application to migrate to STK 10.

Note: An STK X license is required to run an STK 10.1 Engine Application.

For information on migrating an STK 8, STK 7, or STK 6 Engine Application, see Migrating an STK 8 Engine Application to STK 9, Migrating an STK 7 Engine Application to STK 8 or Migrating an STK 6 Engine Application to STK 7.

The following tells you how to migrate your STK X project created in one of the following languages or applications from STK 9 to STK 10:

If you run into compile time issues after migrating the desired project using the instructions below, please refer to the appropriate tables from the STK 9 to STK 10 Migration Mapping Tables help topic for the new replacement types.

Migrating a C# Visual Studio Project to STK 10

  1. Locate and delete \bin and \obj folders from your project.
  2. Open your project (.csproj) file in a text editor.
  3. Locate the COMReference sections in the project file for the AGI.STKX, AxAGI.STKX, AGI.STKUtil and AGI.STKObjects sections.
  4. Replace the Guid entry in the AGI.STKX, AxAGI.STKX, AGI.STKUtil and AGI.STKObject sections with the new GUID from the GUIDs Mapping Table. The GUIDs below are for a stand alone STK application. If you are building an UI Plugin application, see the GUIDs Mapping table for the correct GUIDs.
    Old GUID => 138ABB54-1413-4E7C-BBC5-ED59403DEF47
    New GUID => 2F33DBAC-FD48-4355-B4B1-0B06104F704B
    Old GUID => 143176A1-6A8F-41AB-B9B4-C581BD51B350
    New GUID => 10F7F37B-ED54-429D-8671-7D120F8ED8ED
    Old GUID => 36A4EDB3-B021-4D44-A0AA-D1C897DC333D
    New GUID => 7F21C33A-CB6A-4F9A-91AE-AC80A9820094
    Old GUID => F5F54076-5828-4191-8056-FC087E415ED3
    New GUID => 5ABDA9FD-E655-4531-8C88-FDE33D087C85
  5. Save the project file.
  6. Start Visual Studio .NET and open your project.
  7. Search and replace all the enumerations used (if any) in your code (.cs) files from the Enumerations Mapping Table.
  8. Search and replace all the ProgIDs used (if any) in your code (.cs) files from the ProgIDs Mapping Table.
  9. Save your code files.
  10. Compile and run your project.

Migrating a VB.NET Visual Studio Project to STK 10

  1. Locate and delete \bin and \obj folders in your project.
  2. Open your project (.vbproj) file in a text editor.
  3. Locate the COMReference sections in the project file for the AGI.STKX, AxAGI.STKX, AGI.STKUtil and AGI.STKObjects sections.
  4. Replace the Guid entry in the AGI.STKX, AxAGI.STKX, AGI.STKUtil and AGI.STKObject sections with the new GUID from the GUIDs Mapping Table.
    Old GUID => 138ABB54-1413-4E7C-BBC5-ED59403DEF47
    New GUID => 2F33DBAC-FD48-4355-B4B1-0B06104F704B
    Old GUID => 143176A1-6A8F-41AB-B9B4-C581BD51B350
    New GUID => 10F7F37B-ED54-429D-8671-7D120F8ED8ED
    Old GUID => 36A4EDB3-B021-4D44-A0AA-D1C897DC333D
    New GUID => 7F21C33A-CB6A-4F9A-91AE-AC80A9820094
    Old GUID => F5F54076-5828-4191-8056-FC087E415ED3
    New GUID => 5ABDA9FD-E655-4531-8C88-FDE33D087C85
  5. Save the project file.
  6. Start Visual Studio .NET and open your project.
  7. Search and replace all the enumerations used (if any) in your code (.vb) files from the Enumerations Mapping Table.
  8. Search and replace all the ProgIDs used (if any) in your code (.vb) files from ProgIDs Mapping Table.
  9. Save your code files.
  10. Compile and run your project.

Migrating MS PowerPoint Presentations to STK 10

  1. Launch MS PowerPoint and open your file.
  2. Locate the slide which contains the AGI Globe Control, AGI Map Control, and/or AGI Graphics Analysis Control.
  3. Delete those controls.
  4. Save your presentation file, exit PowerPoint and restart it.
  5. Launch Visual basic for Applications IDE by pressing Alt + F11.
  6. Select Tools from the menu and then select References.
  7. Clear the references to AGI STK X 9, AGI STK Util 9 and AGI STK Objects 9 in the references dialog box, if present.
  8. Save your presentation file.
  9. Close MS PowerPoint.
  10. Locate and delete the temporary cache directory where PowerPoint keeps type library caches. It is usually under the logged-in-user's temporary directory. For example, for MS PowerPoint 2010, it may be as follows:
    \Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\PPT11.0.
  11. Launch MS PowerPoint and open the previously saved presentation file.
  12. Locate the slide where you want to insert the AGI Globe Control, AGI Map Control and/or AGI Graphics Analysis Control.
  13. Click on the Developer tab on the ribbon.
  14. Click the More Controls button on the Control Toolbox and select the AGI Globe Control 10, AGI Map Control 10 and/or AGI Graphics Analysis Control 10, and insert your slide.
  15. Launch Visual basic for Applications IDE by pressing Alt + F11.
  16. Select Tools from the menu and then select the References menu item.
  17. Locate and select AGI STK Util 10, AGI STK X 10, and AGI STK Objects 10 if they are not already selected.
  18. Click OK to close the dialog box.
  19. Save your presentation file.
  20. Run your presentation.

Migrating MS Excel Files to STK 10

  1. Launch MS Excel and open your file.
  2. Locate the sheet which contains the AGI Globe Control, AGI Map Control, and/or AGI Graphics Analysis Control.
  3. Delete those controls.
  4. Save your file.
  5. Launch Visual basic for Applications IDE by pressing Alt + F11.
  6. Select Tools from the menu and then select the References menu item.
  7. Remove the references to AGI STK X 9, AGI STK Util 9 and/or AGI STK Objects 9 from the references dialog box.
  8. Save your file.
  9. Close MS Excel.
  10. Locate and delete the temporary cache directory where Excel keeps type library caches. It is usually under the logged-in-user's temporary directory. For example, for MS Excel 2010, it may be as follows:
    \Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\Excel8.0
  11. Launch MS Excel and open the previously saved Excel file.
  12. Locate the sheet where you want to insert the AGI Globe Control.
  13. Click on the Developer tab on the ribbon.
  14. Click on the More Controls button on Control Toolbox and select the AGI Globe Control 10 , AGI Map Control 10 or AGI Graphics Analysis Control 10, and insert your slide.
  15. Launch Visual basic for Applications IDE by pressing Alt + F11 keys.
  16. Select Tools from the menu and then select the References menu item.
  17. Locate and select AGI STK X 10, AGI STK Util 10 , and AGI STK Objects 10 if they are not already.
  18. Click OK to close the dialog box.

Migrating HTML Pages to STK 10

  1. Open your HTML file in a text editor or an HTML editor of your choice.
  2. Search and replace STK 9.x GUIDs found in your HTML file with the new GUIDs for STK 10.0 from the GUIDs Mapping Table.
  3. Old GUID => 138ABB54-1413-4E7C-BBC5-ED59403DEF47
    New GUID => 2F33DBAC-FD48-4355-B4B1-0B06104F704B
    Old GUID => 143176A1-6A8F-41AB-B9B4-C581BD51B350
    New GUID => 10F7F37B-ED54-429D-8671-7D120F8ED8ED
    Old GUID => 36A4EDB3-B021-4D44-A0AA-D1C897DC333D
    New GUID => 7F21C33A-CB6A-4F9A-91AE-AC80A9820094
    Old GUID => F5F54076-5828-4191-8056-FC087E415ED3
    New GUID => 5ABDA9FD-E655-4531-8C88-FDE33D087C85
  4. Save the HTML file.
  5. Launch your HTML file in Internet Explorer.

Migrating a MATLAB Project to STK 10

  1. Start MATLAB.
  2. Open your existing figure in GUIDE.
  3. Remove the AGI STK X map and globe (version 9) controls from your figure. Note the tag associated with each control (for instance, activex1 for the 2D control and activex2 for the globe control).
  4. Save the project.
  5. Close and re-open MATLAB.
  6. Re-open your figure in GUIDE.
  7. Re-insert the new controls. Make sure you select the following two controls:

    Note: MATLAB associates a new tag with the controls. Therefore, if you had two active X controls on your figure, what was activex1 becomes activex3, what was activex2 becomes activex4, etc.

    For the remaining steps of these instructions, the total number of active X controls on your form is referred to as <m>.

  8. Open the M-file editor.
  9. In your M-files replace:
     
    Existing string New string
    actxserver('STKX9.Application') actxserver('STKX10.Application')
    activex<n> for n = 1,2,3, ..., m activex<n+m>

     
  10. If you are using a reference to the STK Object Model instance in your code, then its ProgID needs to be updated as well. The creation of an STK Object Model instance for STK 10 may look like this:

    OM = actxserver('AgStkObjects10.AgStkObjectRoot')
  11. Save your project.
  12. You are ready to use STK X version 10.

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