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Oops, the third issue was just an error in my code to automatically extract the Flight symbols. The PAK files contain a PropDefs folder where the symbols actually reside, and I didn't realize that when extracting the PAK.

Since it's to be used on end user's computers, I don't think it's a good idea to require modification, in which case, I'd go with the workarounds.
 
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Ok, I updated the code and committed the changes. Can you try again and let me know if you see any other issues? If not, I will do a binary release as well, and call it stable.
 
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Ran all your unit tests and made a program to load some FSX mission SPB files. Seems to work. :)
 
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Great to heat about the library, I'm eager to try it in scenproc soon.
 
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Awesome. It would be good to get another set of eyes on it to see if there is anything from the API perspective that could use a design change.

The main area I'm thinking about is whether I should change some of the property accessors to be more type safe (instead of just returning arrays of basic types).
 
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I'll let you know after I have tested.
 
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Hi,

I finally had some time to test the library this evening and it is working fine. It's quite easy to replace my current code that parses a XML of a decompiled SPB (using spb2xml) with your library. So a very useful library I would say!

Just one question, I noticed the binary is compiled with .NET 4.5.1 now, is that required or could an older framework version also be used? At the moment my tools don't use .NET 4.5.1. Actually they are still at 2.0/3.5. I'm planning to upgrade soon, but probably to 4.0, since I read that 4.5 is not available on XP and I know there are still users of my tools that use XP.

Using this library, I think it should not be hard as well to make a tool that can merge different version of SPB files. So that should ease the installation of custom autogen configurations. I already have some idea how this could be done.
 
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I just compile it against 4.5.1 because that is what I use for my other tools, and in some of them I use 4.5 features. I don't think the SimProp library itself uses them though, so it is probably easy to take to source and compile against a lower version. I can see if we can change it by default, just need to figure out how that will integrate with my other libraries (or I could just compile my own special version too).
 
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Let me check with my users. If for scenproc they don't use xp I can jump to 4.5 as well.

On the other hand, a merge tool should probably still work for those running fsx on xp. So in that case 4.0 should be fine.
 
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Stupid me, I just downloaded the binaries. But I can also grab the sources from codeplex of course. So I'll just recompile them.
 
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I updated the code for SimProp today to fix a few bugs and also add support for optionally saving out SPB files in the FSX format instead of just the Flight format.
 
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Thanks, sounds useful. I'll grab the latest version.
 
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