[mapguide-users] What is left before MGOS 4.0 RC1

[Jackie Ng]

Hi All,

One last update.

Something had regressed in our new .net bindings where it used to work on
Linux (something I blogged about years ago:
https://themapguyde.blogspot.com/2018/07/introducing-new-experimental-bindings.html)
but my current attempts to get a sample asp.net core app using these
bindings to work on Linux have failed. I have deduced it to be something
around passing strings from .net that used to work, but is now scrambling
the first few characters for the C++ string that means something
fundamental as initializing the web tier with a path to webconfig.ini will
fail because the first few characters of that webconfig.ini path get
scrambled.

Experimental Linux support for the .net bindings was one of the features I
had hoped to showcase for 4.0, but in light of this roadblock I am giving
myself another week to try and solve it (I have a few ideas to try). If
nothing pans out, then this experimental Linux support for the .net
bindings will be parked for a future release and RC1 will be released.

So one way or another, RC1 will be released sometime next week.

- Jackie


On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 00:22, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Another update.
>
> Just as I make a breakthrough on one item, another item conspires to set
> me back!
>
> In this case, it's the API documentation effort. The tool I adopted for
> generating .net API documentation (docfx), now no longer wants to generate
> a functional API documentation website based on the docfx config that I had
> initially laid out in Nov 2023!
>
> Rather than waste precious time right now finding out what docfx broke and
> holding back RC1, I'm going to park this documentation work as a RC1 <->
> Final activity and instead move on to the other items.
>
> FDO now has an official 4.2 branch and all builds of MGOS 4.0 will now be
> based on this branch of FDO.
>
> I am continuing with the managed binding finalization work (fixing up code
> samples, verifying dev patterns for our nuget packages, etc) before moving
> to a final sweep of web tier component updates and then it's finally time
> to put out that RC1 release!
>
> - Jackie
>


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