ReliaSoft API Reference

Synthesis API can be used to accomplish the exact same tasks as within Synthesis, but through a programmers own custom-developed code. This allows for a more customizable and automated solution to reliability engineering. The sample code and documentation in this manual have been prepared for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Visual Basic and .Net) development environment and we assume that the programmer is familiar with programming in that environment.

In order to use this library in a project, a reference to the ReliaSoft Synthesis API Library is required. It’s located in the folder where ReliaSoft Synthesis is installed.
By default it is “C:\Program Files\ReliaSoft\Synthesis 9”.

• .NET developers – use SynthesisAPI.dll

• VB6 / VBA developers – use SynthesisAPI.tlb

The Synthesis API includes a rich set of classes/enumerations that allow you to work with any of the following components of the Synthesis Platform:

• Repositories
  This class allows an application to access and edit Synthesis repositories.
• Weibull++ Standard Folio
  These classes/enumerations are directly related to accessing the capabilities of a Weibull++ standard folio.
• ALTA Standard Folio
  These classes/enumerations are directly related to accessing the capabilities of an ALTA standard folio.
• Weibull++/ALTA Models
  These classes/enumerations are used for building models in Weibull++ or ALTA.
• Weibull++/ALTA Plots
  This class is used to create plots generated from the WeibullDataSet or ALTADataSet classes.
• Resources
  These classes/enumerations are used to create resources and assign values to them.
• Raw Data
  These classes are used to represent data that are stored in the Reliability Data Warehouse (RDW).

A complete listing of all the classes and enumerations in the Synthesis API is available here.