General News about FPAssistant and CADology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Code Coverage is important when testing software to investigate and determine how much of the programmers code is being coverage by the test cases. The code coverage amount is represented as a percentage. The Wikipedia definition is... "In computer science, test coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code [...]