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Its a great app and makes it much easier to figure out if I'm doing things correctly. So this isn't a question about its use but a request I understand the demo code simplifies lots of things to not overwelm people starting out but would be nice to have a more complete/complicated version of code to understand the more complex ways of doing things. Wouldn't this be a good app to share the source for so we can make sure we implement our code correctly?

Thanks.      

Thanks for the feedback.

We are not planning on releasing the source code of SImulANT+ in the near future, however, the source code of the previous ANT+ simulator remains available (although we should point out that the design goals of our development tools are fairly different from those for applications intended for end users).      

A different comment on SimulANT:

I've unzipped the application to a sub-folder of in "C:\Programs (x86)" (OS is Windows7, 64bit, User Access Control switched on).
Running the app gives errors, because it tries to create log files in the program install folder, which is protected due to UAC.
Of course I can overcome that by changing folder rights and/or setting a different CWD for the app.

But may I stipulate that you follow Windows guidelines and NOT abuse program install folders for writing config, log or other files.
Use the folders designated by System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData or System.Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData for this purpose.

Cheers,
OMB
     

Thanks for the feedback. We agree that is a useful feature, and we had already planned to include it in a future release.      

Is there anyway to get simulant+ for a linux OS?      

We don't have plans on releasing SimulANT+ for Linux.
SimulANT+ uses .NET Framework 4.0, the UI is based on WPF, which is not supported in Mono.
Additionally, the underlying ANT library that handles communication to the USB stick has some portions that are highly OS/driver specific.