Using Foresight Analytics Platform Resources in Third-Party Applications

Article number: KB000029

General Information

After the Fore.NET language was implemented in Foresight Analytics Platform, the users can use platform resources in third-party development environments that use the .NET Framework.

Using Foresight Analytics Platform libraries in development requires to satisfy the following conditions:

Foresight Analytics Platform installed using one of the available distribution files.
Add the path to the folder with installed Foresight Analytics Platform in the Path system variable in the operating system.
Bitness of installed Foresight Analytics Platform and third-party development environment must match.

IMPORTANT. Foresight Analytics Platform must be installed with the installer that does not use Reg-free COM registration technology. To satisfy the above mentioned conditions, it is recommended to use the distribution file FP9DevTools.exe.

When distributing the application developed in a third-party environment and using platform libraries, each user's computer must have Foresight Analytics Platform installed by means of the installer that does not use Reg-free COM registration technology. It is also required to manually write the path to the folder with installed Foresight Analytics Platform in the Path system variable.

NOTE. The FP9DevTools.exe distribution file must not be applied on user computers.

Usage features are described in the following subsections:

NOTE. The examples use a project written in C# language for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 environment.