Distrix System Builder 2.3 Release Notes
Wed, 2011-11-30 19:03
Features and Improvements
The following items are new features and improvements in Distrix System Builder 2.3.
New Features
- Added server and agent support for the UDP protocol with autodiscovery in Distrix Core Services, Distrix System Builder, and Distrix System Manager.
- Added the ability to associate hardware abstraction interfaces with an agent from Distrix System Builder and generate code to use them.
- Added various missing agent functions to the generated C# agent code.
- Added documentation to the generated C# agent code.
- Object description is now exported along with objects.
- Added the ability to set the bandwidth of a given connection, which will be used for optimizing multiple connection scenarios.
Enhancements
- Changed code generation timestamp to the ISO standard date format.
- Added various agent helper methods to the C# agent.
- Added hardware flow control support to the serial abstraction.
- Added more documentation to the generated models for C, C#, and Java.
- Added support for generating code that uses an external run loop.
- Added support for logging into the licensing application using an email address instead of a user name.
- Added support for marking processes to be auto-started by the Process Manager.
- Added the ability to start a client on the local server by specifying a target server UUID of 0.
- Added agent metadata to generated conversion modules.
A full list of all of the features, improvements and bug fixes in Distrix System Builder 2.3 can be found in the Release Notes. These updates are applicable to all Distrix System Builder editions.
