General News about FPAssistant and CADology
Development of FPAssistant, the SDK for your aviation apps, has been progressing and below is a list of the key areas that have happened so far this year: .NET 9.0 - Support for .NET 9 has been completed and as we only support the current .NET release and two further back then only 7, 8 [...]
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 [...]
.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 [...]
The FPAssistant SDK now offers a simply way to use the ICAO API Data Service giving you a head start in accessing the data offered by ICAO. It is important to understand that the software developer will still need to license the data access direct from ICAO and provide your 'API KEY', from ICAO, to [...]
A new NOTAM struct has been added to provide support to handle NOTAM's in your own software development apps. A NOTAM can be completely decoded into information to present to the user, this is handled with a series of enums; example There is also an in-built validation to the NOTAM struct that will warn the [...]
Finnair have been using the FPAssistant SDK suite along with the optional ARINC 424 Parser module to develop their own software tool in-house, an insight of the Microsoft Windows app is explained further below by Toni Kivinen who is the manager of Simulator Engineering at Finnair. Finnair Flight Training has been struggled for years to [...]
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 [...]
A support question arrived asking about adding data into a spatial database, as it happens a article was written a while back on LinkedIn. In short, the GeoMapElements (Point, Circle, Line, Polygon, LineString, etc) are easily added to a spatial database using the method AsGeography(). The article describes how data contained in a Excel spreadsheet [...]
