XSharp "Anjou" General Release available
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- Created: 03 July 2017
We are VERY pleased to announce that we have released XSharp "Anjou" (build 1.0.1) to the general public.
This new build differs only from RC 5, that was released last week, in a few issues with Visual Studio integration.
FOX subscribers can download their version from the FOX download area on this website. Other users can download their version from the General section on this website.
The difference between the two versions is that the Compiler in the FOX version is a little more optimized, so a little faster.
And FOX subscribers will get personal support from our development team in return for their support for the development of the product.
If you are not a FOX subscriber, now is the perfect time to join. We offer a 30% discount to all new members until August 31, 2017
We also offer a Compatitive Update for active VOPS/VPS subscribers. Click here for more information
XSharp "Anjou" Release Candidate
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- Created: 29 June 2017
We are very happy that we can announce that, a little bit later then planned, we have uploaded XSharp "Anjou" Release Candidate 5 to the download folder for FOX subscribers.
As you can see from the version number we have been ready for a while, but internal QA has found a couple of (very small) things that we wanted to fix before releasing the product to our customers.
RC 5 will be the same as the General Release, unless one of our customers finds a show stopper in the next couple of days.
The General Release will most likely be released beginning of next week (July 3 or 4).
Some of the highlights of this release:
- A new syntax for Lambda expression ({ a,b,c => a+b+c} but also { a as Int, b as Int, c as Int => a*b*c}
- You can specify the base type for an Enum ( ENUM Foo AS WORD)
- Several (small) problems in the compiler were fixed.
Beta 12, the final beta
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- Created: 29 May 2017
We are proud that we can announce that the final beta of X# (Beta 12) has just been released to our FOX subscribers.
Some of the changes in this build:
- We have migrated to the Roslyn codebase for C# 7. That will allow us to add many new language features in the not too far future and also solves some small problems from the earlier codebase.
- The build contains some changes that make the compiler more VO compatible.
- We have added support for X# Scripting.
- We have made many improvements to the Visual Studio integration.
For a complete list of changes look at the what's new document in the General/Downloads section on this website.
If you want to support the X# project, it is not too late. We have a special 30% discount to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio. This special offer is valid until June 7. Click here for more information.
Finally: we have also received another great customer example from Wolfgang Riedman, his "Door Configurator".
Look in the examples section on this website for more details about this example.
The final Beta and Summer is coming
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- Created: 20 May 2017
Already 3 weeks have passed since the conference in Germany and it is time for an update.
The conference was a big success. At first it looked like the number of attendees were going to be disappointing, but you have all waited until the last moment for signing up. The number of attendees was larger than last year, so we are making progress ! Next years conference has already be planned for April 16-18. Block the date in your calendar.
Three of our team members were present at the conference. I (Robert) would like to mention two sessions in particular because I thought they were very impressive:
Fabrice showed how he created a standard Winforms app on his windows computer and was able to (xcopy) deploy it to a Linux machine and to a Raspberry Pi running Debian with ZERO code changes. Both machines were running Mono and his apps run smoothly (albeit a little slow on the Raspberry Pi).
He also accessed a MySql database on his desktop from both the Linux machine and the Raspberry PI and was able to control a external USB device from both the Windows machine as well as from the Rapberry PI with zero code changes. Very impressive.
Announcements from XBase.Future
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- Created: 26 April 2017
At the xBase.Future conference this week we have announced several things that we like to share with you as well:
The first GA release of X# is expected in the coming months
This first release will come with:
- The compiler
- The VS Integration for VS 2015 and 2017
- Tools to migrate VO applications to X#
- Tools to migrate Vulcan.NET applications to X#
- Full support for the .NET Framework 2.0 - 4.7, as wel as many other frameworks, such mono, Xamarin etc.
- Full support for Vulcan.NET 3.0 and 4.0 runtimes and RDDs
- X# applications will run on all platforms that support .Net framework (windows, mono) when compiled for AnyCpu of when compiled for a compatible processor (x86, X64, Arm)
Later in 2017 you can expect
- The X# Runtime with support for most xBase RDD formats, runtime functions, thread safe etc.
- A Macro compiler that is based on the X# scripting support that we have demonstrated during XBase.Future. The macro compiler will support weakly typed an strongly typed codeblocks, and will not only be restricted to compiling expressions but will also support statement (such as for next, foreach etc).
- The X# visual studio integration will be extended with support for .Net Core projects, .Net Standard projects, Universal Windows projects an so called "shared" projects
A revised 'roadmap' document will be published at this website in the coming weeks.
Finally
A new public beta (Beta 11) of X# is available for download for free from the downloads section on this website,
XBase Future 2017
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- Created: 25 April 2017
Hi to all,
just a quick note to told you that XBase Future 2017 Conference has started today in Cologne.
We had the first presentations this morning, with a very interesting session by Michael Fischer and Robert van der Hulst; a lot of people and new faces...Great !
Myself, I've already done a session about XSharp Everywhere, with an application consuming some MySQL-data as a client with some Windows Forms, and running the same way on Windows 10, Ubuntu 16.04 and Raspberry PI with Raspbian Pixel... without ANY Change !
Now, Robert is talking about our OpenSource model, and all stuff around program management, licences, code sharing, ...
Fabrice
XSharp Beta 11
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- Created: 24 April 2017
We are pleased to announce that XSharp Beta 11 has been released to our FOX subscribers today.
Tomorrow at the XBase.Future conference in Cologne we will also demonstrate this new version.
This beta contains many new features and works together with Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017.
Some of the highlights of this build:
- We fixed some reported compiler issues and optimized the preprocessor
- Many improvements in the Visual Studio integration, such as Brace Matching, Peek definition and more
- The speed of the background parser inside Visual Studio has been improved
For a complete list of changes look at the version history in the documentation on this website.
A public version of this build will be available later this week.
Progress report April 12
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- Created: 12 April 2017
You have not seen any progress reports here for the last 2 weeks, so it is time to write something.
Of course the development team is busy preparing for the conference in Cologne (April 25-27, you can stilll register!). It is going to be an exciting event:
- Fabrice will show X# code running on a another platform (Rasberry Pi)
- Nikos is going to show scripting support for X#. With that you will probably be able to run X# script files from the command line and/or include X# script code (read from external files for example) in your app. That would be an ideal solution for data driven applications.The scripting support is also the foundation for our X# macro compiler.
- Finally Robert will talk about .Net Core, .Net Standard and Windows Universal and show X# apps that work on all three of them.
With X# you are no longer tied to the Microsoft platform, but you will be able to run your apps on Linux, IOS and Android as well.
Of course we have not only prepared for the conference. Some new features were added to the VS integration and the compiler and they have also both become a little faster. More about that short before Cologne.
Finally we have included a new customer example on the Customer examples webpage.
New customer examples
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- Created: 26 March 2017
Frank Mariate has been so kind to share some images from apps he has developed with X#. You can find these in the Examples section on this website.
He will be demonstrating his apps during the "Application Show" at the XBase Future conference in Cologne as well.