# Enterprise Communication Interface (ECI)

## String-Based IPC Interface

When using Windows applications via Visual Basic which uses the data type "String" only, it is not possible to access all ECI functions directly as the structure "edb_data_header" is used for managing the current connection to Agile e6. The so-called wrapper function has been written for these functions of the IPC interface which uses the parameter type"string" only. These functions can be called from Visual Basic

The following versions of the IPC functions are available:

- ecis_connect
- ecis_call
- ecis_close
- ecis_win
- ecis_cre_par
- ecis_add_par
- ecis_end_par
- ecis_set_par
- ecis_get_par
- ecis_des_par