X# Runtime progress report - continued
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- Created: 05 June 2018
Just a quick update to follow up on our report from last week.
Our meeting in Greece last week has brought up a few compatibility problems between X# and Visual Objects, especially in the area of Number <-> String conversions as well as the Transform and Unformat functions.
For some of the problems you could argue that the VO implementation does not make sense. However for obvious (compatibility) reasons we try to make our runtime behave just as insane as Visual Objects.
We will try to resolve most of these this week and when no new problems arise we will upload X# 2 beta 1 end of this week.
There is one important new feature in this build that we would like to announce at this moment and that is support for Dynamic typed arrays.
This feature has been added and sponsored by one customer in particular, but we think it can be usefull for all of you.
Look at the following code for an example and the new syntax ARRAY OF <type>
X# Runtime progress report
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- Created: 25 May 2018
With this message we would like to give you all a quick heads up of the progress on the X# runtime.
As promised in Cologne last month we will release the first beta of the X# runtime end of May.
And we are on schedule !
We will release the first Beta next week. This will include XSharp.Core.DLL and XSharp.VO.DLL the 2 components that contain the XBase functions and XBase specific types. Recompiled versions of the VO class libraries are most likely not included yet. These will follow a few weeks later. In fact: we will not send you these DLLs but will deliver a tool that will create personalid versions of these DLLs for you which include your Visual Objects username and serial number, to avoid legal and copyright issues. That means that without valid VO installation you will not be able to create these DLLs.
Updated privacy policy
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- Created: 25 May 2018
Like all organizations we have revised our privacy policy because of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We have decided not to spam you with emails that you will throw away without reading anyway. This is the only announcement of this new privacy policy.
If you want to read the policy click here.
ILSpy Plugin
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- Created: 26 April 2018
ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler, and as shown during the xBase Future 2018, you can now use ILSpy to view and decompile .NET assembly as XSharp Language.
To do so, first get the ILSpy binaries and unzip them in a folder.
Then get the ILSpy Plugin in the Downloads/General/Tools section, and unzip the DLL in the same folder as the ILSpy Binaries.
Now, when running ISpy, you can set the language as XSharp.
The full source code of the Plugin is available in the public XSharp Repository on Github; you can also view there the current state of developement of the tool ( What is working currently, Changelog, ... )
The XSharp development roadmap for 2018
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- Created: 26 April 2018
At the XBase.Future conference we have talked with you about our plans for 2018.
For those of you that could not make it to the conference we have uploaded the presentations to this webserver.
Many of you have asked about the planning for the release of the runtime. The short version of this is below.
More information about what is in each of the components can be found in a blog article on this website
Finally, some people have asked us how they can contribute to the source code of the runtime and/or visual studio integration. Please look at this article for more information.
Conference report XBase Future 2018
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- Created: 19 April 2018
Just a short message to tell all of you that we have had a great conference XBase Future 2018 in Cologne this week. The conference was very well organized and there were a lot of great topics. And of course the "after session" time was also worth the trip.
We have used the occasion to speak with customers about our plans for X# for the coming years. We have shown a beta version of the X# runtime, including the macro compiler and we have received very valuable feedback during our sessions. Fabrice has also shown his new plugin for IlSpy that allows you to decompile any .Net assembly into X# code, Very useful!
Some of the customers have shared their success stories about how they have used X# and its tools to move their applications from Visual Objects to .Net. We have also seen some very nice apps running in .Net compiled with X#. We love to see and hear these success stories !
Please give us a few days to recover and organise things at home and then we will share the announcements we did in Cologne as well as the roadmap etc. in the form of messages and downloads on this website.
XSharp 1.2.1 released
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- Created: 10 April 2018
We have just released XSharp 1.2.1 to our FOX subscribers.
This is an interim release that adds some small features to the compiler and has some enhancements in the Visual Studio integration that should mostly benefit users with large solutions.
Build 1.2.1 will most likely be the last XSharp 1 build.
Next week, at the conference in Cologne, we will show a beta version of XSharp 2 which will include the XSharp runtime.
More details about the planning for the release of XSharp 2.0 will be revealed at the conference and will be shared at this website after the conference.
We hope to see you all in Cologne. You can still register !
The end of GrafX and the future of ReportPro
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- Created: 24 March 2018
GrafX Database Systems, the company from Brian Feldman, has closed shop. Many of you have already seen that and commented on that.
On the former GrafX website an accusing finger is pointed to us and accusations are made that we have “stolen” products from GrafX.
That is a blatant lie and very far from the truth. We did not respond on this website before because we tried to solve this the political way by talking with GrafX but we failed to do so.
If you want read our version of the story, click here for more information.
Finally, now that GrafX Database Systems no longer exists, there is no company anymore that sells ReportPro. We have decided to add ReportPro to our product offerings. The story above contains more details. Our sales page and online shop will be updated shortly.
XSharp 1.2 released
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- Created: 22 March 2018
We have released XSharp 1.2 today. This release fixes some compiler issues and has many improvements in the Visual Studio integration.
There is both a new public release as well as a new release for our FOX subscribers. Both releases have the same functionality. The compiler in the release for FOX subscribers is somewhat faster. Some highlights of this build:
Compiler
- We have made some optizations in the Lexer which make the compiler somewhat faster
- Fixed a problem with /vo2 (initialize strings with "") so parent class constructors will no longer overwrite fields that are already assigned in subclasses. We still recomment that you call the parent constructor first before assigning field values
- Fixed a problem with /vo16 (automatic clipper constuctor generation). This was not working for classes that inherit directly from classes defined in referenced assemblies.
- Improved the debugger breakpoint generation. The compiler no longer generates 'hidden' breakpoint information for startup and closedown code in the VO/Vulcan dialects, and for expression statements no longer a double step is necessary.
- The compiler now generates a warning when you use the #pragma command.
- In some situations (partial classes where access and assign are not both in the same source file) the compiler would generate error messages without proper file name and line number. This has been fixed.