MicroStation CE SDK Update 13 available for download

Hi Jan,

Thank you for posting to notify others about the general availability of MicroStation CONNECT SDK Update 13, while I was out of office.  To properly complete this thread, may you all take a moment to review the latest: MicroStation CONNECT Edition SDK Update 13 release announcement.

As always and again, thank you for your additional assistance in keeping everyone up to date and on the right path.

Thank you,
Bob

Robert Hook said:

may you all take a moment to review the latest: MicroStation CONNECT Edition SDK Update 13 release announcement

Jan Šlegr said:

That summary is helpful

I agree: very useful! 

EC Services and EC Objects provide some useful introductory material, which in general has been absent from SDK help files.  Good progress!

Unfortunately, there are a number of alerts like this: [Missing documentation for "T:Bentley.ECN.IECInstance"]

EC Objects in particular has some good information about EC Schemas.  I wish that it had been available years ago...

ECObjects is the bedrock of interoperability. -- Casey Mullen, 2015

Hi Jon,

Thank you too for the announcement feedback and I will queue up the EC doc items you found for review and update.

Thank you,
Bob

Jon Summers said:

Unfortunately, there are a number of alerts like this: [Missing documentation for "T:Bentley.ECN.IECInstance"]

Yes, I found them also. Because I assume the documentation is generated using DocFX (just because of the help look), I assume some links were broken during a conversion from code to web pages (DocFX functionality) or when the result was converted to chm (have no idea how exactly it was done and using what postprocessor ... I am quite curious ;-).

It's a standard DocFX feature that it allows (easier than Doxygen in my opinion) to merge documentation created from code and additional documentation, e.g. about assembly, namespaces or high-level concepts (nice example is Articles chapter in ECObjects). Probably this part was broken (or when looking at my projects, simply not finished yet ;-).

Jon Summers said:

EC Objects in particular has some good information about EC Schemas.  I wish that it had been available years ago...

Exactly, I think I had to invest hundreds (or thousands?) hours to study different limited sources, play with Class Editor and trying to create code snippets to understand how this ecosystem works.

Regards,

  Jan

Jon Summers said:

Unfortunately, there are a number of alerts like this: [Missing documentation for "T:Bentley.ECN.IECInstance"]

Yes, I found them also. Because I assume the documentation is generated using DocFX (just because of the help look), I assume some links were broken during a conversion from code to web pages (DocFX functionality) or when the result was converted to chm (have no idea how exactly it was done and using what postprocessor ... I am quite curious ;-).

It's a standard DocFX feature that it allows (easier than Doxygen in my opinion) to merge documentation created from code and additional documentation, e.g. about assembly, namespaces or high-level concepts (nice example is Articles chapter in ECObjects). Probably this part was broken (or when looking at my projects, simply not finished yet ;-).

Jon Summers said:

EC Objects in particular has some good information about EC Schemas.  I wish that it had been available years ago...

Exactly, I think I had to invest hundreds (or thousands?) hours to study different limited sources, play with Class Editor and trying to create code snippets to understand how this ecosystem works.

Regards,

  Jan

HI Jan,

I do see reference that DoxFX is used specific for GIT in our: Get And Build GIT based ECFramework process.

Thank you,
Bob