Installing CygNet Designer

This topic describes the system requirements and installation steps required to install the CygNet Designer.

System Requirements

The following system requirements support CygNet Designer:

• CygNet 8.1.3 or later, with all patches applied
• .NET 4.5 or later
• CygNet ODBC driver

Required Files

The CygNet Designer uses the following required files:

• CygNetDesigner.exe
• CygNet.AE.BlueprintAPI.dll
• CygNet.API.Facilities.dll
• CygNet.API.Facilities.Proxy.dll
• CygNet.API.Facilities32.dll
• CygNet.Core.dll
• CygNet.Data.Core.dll
• CygNet.Data.Facilities.dll
• CygNet.DataTransformers.Core32.dll
• CygNet.DataTransformers.Facilities32.dll

Installation Steps

To install the CygNet Designer utility, you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Obtain the product source files from the CygNet Download Site (login required).
2. Extract the source files from the CygNetDesigner.zip and run the installer, CygNetDesignerSetup.exe, which will take care of most aspects of setting up the CygNet Designer on your system, including uploading the necessary libraries to your CygNet services.
3. Follow the screens to install the CygNet Designer to the default location: C:\CygNet\Utilities\Designer\CygNetDesigner.exe