General News about FPAssistant and CADology
The API documentation for FPAssistant Suite SDK is available on the web at the following URL: http://api.fpassistant.com/ This contains documentation for developers as well as articles to assist in using the product. API Documentation Website A few people have recently asked 'how this is produced?', being developers we like to make it easy and automatic! [...]
Recently calculations based on the ICAO RNP AR document 9905 were added as an RNP Class to the SDK; click here for further details. To start with this includes the FAP and temperature calculations. As a demo and for testing purposes, an RNP AR page has been added to the app along with a map [...]
A while back Microsoft announced .NET Standard 2.1 (here) this was about a year after 2.0 and towards the end of this year (2020) .NET 5 will be available as an early release for developers, I will not go into the importance of .NET 5 now and leave that for another blog post. FPAssistant SDK [...]
A new version of the App has been released and added to the Microsoft store today, this version had two areas for improvement and updates. Firstly, GML support has recently been added to the FPAssistant Suite SDK and this allows for GML files to be created easily from the GeoMapElements objects. The feature has been added [...]
2020 has now arrived and I have just been attending "Microsoft Ignite The Tour" in London which was quite interesting in many ways. The agenda, as expected, presented a lot of cloud based tech around Azure. One area I would like to investigate this year is the use of 'Containers" and Docker seems one of [...]
Looking back at my Tech View of 2019 it seems a little quiet on what I expected to see appearing, below are my thoughts of 2019 and soon I would like to post what might or might not happening in 2020. From Microsoft Windows Core OS - This new version of Windows did not really [...]
Geodetic Calculation Feature Improvement To expand on the existing geodetic capabilities of the FPAssistant Suite SDK and to comply with FAA Order 8260 the GeoCoordinate and GeoCoordinateBasic objects (Structs) now support geodetic calculations based on Appendix A. TERP Standard Formulas for Geodetic Solutions. As documented in the appendix, it states... >> Algorithms and methods are [...]
Development has been continuing of the ARINC 424 Parser and more recently a new user app to present the navigation data in textual and in a graphical form on a map. This new app is known as A424 Explorer and is being created as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Windows 10 to be [...]
The completion of the FAS Data Block - Data Store Extension (DSE) option was being delayed because of support for the .NET Standard 2.0 within the Azure Cosmos DB SDK but early in 2019 Microsoft announced version 3.0 of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK; this initial public review targets .NET Standard 2.0 which is [...]
The end of 2018 is coming and the start of a new year will bring some new technology both hardware and software, so I hope. Here are a few topics that I'm looking to see and do during 2019. From Microsoft Windows Core OS The launch of the latest Windows version known as Windows Core [...]