A quick look back of this year 2023... FPAssistant Suite SDK Work has progressed this year on the SDK but not so much on adding new features but improving existing functionality in the areas of code along with hardware and OS support. Support to access the ICAO Data Service API using minimal code and returning [...]
To assistant in helping developers use the FPAssistant SDK we now have a home page on GitHub. This will be place to find demo apps and examples for existing customers and those who looking at using the SDK in their aviation application. FPAssistant home page on GitHub This can be found on GitHub by [...]
Developer requested upgrades and news is detailed below but in short the developer team has switched to developing the SDK now using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. This enables host of new features and we are looking at .NET MAUI for support for macOS and mobiles although this is still early stages. .NET 6.0 .NET 6.0 [...]
The FPAssistant Suite SDK uses the .NET platform from Microsoft as the developer platform, this is because is free, cross-platform and open source. Here is a link to find out more about .NET. The big release a while back was .NET 5.0 and it seems that Microsoft and the community are releasing .NET on a [...]
.NET 5.0 Overview Yesterday on the 10th November 2020 Microsoft released .NET 5.0 as a major release including C# 9.0 and F# 5.0 along with Visual Studio 16.8. It was only 6 weeks ago that I added a blog on .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET 5.0 Support .NET 5.0 is available now [...]
Part 1 - Testing the calculations and internals Testing software is a very important part of the development process and this can be broken down into two areas, firstly the internal calculations, database queries and procedures (Part 1) and secondly the User Interface (UI) making sure that the results and UI are working as designed [...]
Quite often we get asked.... How is FPAssistant software delivered? Well in the old days this could be through an installer but could be a big effort when dealing with a single DLL file. Then again, it could be zipped up and sent by email, download link and the customer would need be contacted or have [...]
