ARINC 424 Helpers - These are classes that help the developer gain access to the data in the ARINC 424 Navigation Database in a OOP environment. Helpers can be developed outside of the FPAssistant SDK and then our developers can add to the SDK if they are helpful to other users. The following helpers are [...]
The dev team have recently added an example app that display the data within a ARINC 424 navigation database file. The app is written using Microsoft Visual Studio targeting Windows OS using .NET 8.x and the Windows App SDK. The app has a split pane and will display the ARINC 424 records in a tree [...]
.NET 8.0 Released .NET 8.x is now general available and support has been added to the FPAssistant SDK. Microsoft are releasing .NET currently in a yearly cycle and .NET 9.0 can be expected towards the end of 2024. The support policy for FPAssistant is that the current release and previous two releases will [...]
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 [...]
Well, a year later and we now have .NET 6.0 developed by the .NET team and community. This is another great step forward for aviation software developers using the FPAssistant Suite SDK as this is fully now supported for .NET 6.0. This release is a unified development platform and as you can see from the [...]
We got asked the other day for a list of the Target Frameworks supported in the FPAssistant Suite along with future plans; so here is a technical answer, the following Frameworks are supported all as Class Libraries ready to be referenced in Visual Studio or some through NuGet: FPAssistant with Geodetics calculated locally on computer [...]
2021 has now arrived and yesterday the UK was out into another Lockdown to try and prevent the spread of Covid-19. 2020 was a difficult year for most business and people, CADology survived and we were able to continue adding features into FPAssistant Suite and learn about new software and tech. ARM & possibly not [...]
