Getting Started

Follow the steps below to build any application, including the samples.

1. Compile your ASN.1 specifications. Use either the ASN.1/C# command-line compiler or ASN.1 Studio. This will produce C# source files that contain the encoding and decoding classes, and the type representations to be used by your application.
2. Launch your C# development environment.
3. Reference the runtime codec assembly %ProgramFiles%\OSS Nokalva\asn1csharp\<platform name>\<version>\bin\asn1csrt.dll, which contains the runtime code needed for encoding/decoding.
4. Write some code using the generated classes and build your application. For example, for the BCAS schema, which is included in the samples:

using Oss.Asn1; 
using BCAS.BCASModule; 
using BCAS; 

namespace BCASApp 
    public class Program 
    { 
        public static void Main() 
        { 
            BerCodec codec = new BerCodec(); 
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(); 
            BBCard pdu = new BBCard(); 
  
            try 
            { 
                // init PDU 
                pdu.Name = "Casey"; 
                pdu.Team = "Mudville Nine"; 
                pdu.Age = 32; 
                pdu.Position = "left field"; 
                pdu.Handedness = BBCard.HandednessType.Ambidextrous; 
                pdu.BattingAverage = 0.25; 
  
                // encode PDU 
                codec.Encode(pdu, stream); 
  
                // move stream position to beginning for decoding 
                stream.Position = 0; 
  
                // decode PDU 
                codec.Decode(stream, pdu); 
  
                // print PDU 
                Console.WriteLine(pdu); 
            } 
            catch (Exception ex) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine("Codec exception:" + ex); 
            } 
        } 
    } 
}



5. C#-compile the generated code to build your application.
6. Run and test your application.

The sample files included with the software are installed in %ProgramData%\OSS Nokalva\asn1csharp\<platform name>\<version>\samples.