Progress report March 19, 2020

A short report on what we have been doing in the last month. We have not been idle, I can say, despite (or thanks to) the CoVid19 crisis

We have made some changes to almost every part of the system. Below is an (incomplete) list of the changes.

Compiler

• We have added support for bracketed strings
• We are now generating a version resource based on Assembly attributes even when you have included a native resource file
• Extended match markers in UDCs now also recognize file names including paths
• We have implemented the /vo11 compiler option
• We have solved several signed/unsigned warnings
• You can now use PCall() to call typed function pointers stored inside VO structures

Runtime

• We have implemented several FoxPro functions and added the FoxPro Empty class
• We have fixed some problems setting global state using the Set() function
• Several workarea related functions were throwing an exception when called on a workarea that was not in use. This has been fixed.
• We have fixed problems with several functions such as StrZero(), PadC(), IsSpace(), AFill(), ASort() etc.

Visual Studio integration

• We have fixed an error in the keyword case synchronization code that could corrupt your code
• The code behind the VS Form editor had problems with methods declared without return type. As a result forms could not be opened. This has been fixed.
• Improved intellisense info for Defines and Enum members

VOXporter

• When porting from Clipboard contents, now VOXporter puts back the modified code to the clipboard
• Added option to remove ~ONLYEARLY pragmas

Installer and documentation

• We have added a new commandline option to the installer that allows you to suppress uninstalling a previous version
• The installer now lists all found instances of VS 2017 and VS 2019, including the Visual Studio Buildtools, so you can choose to install in a particular instance of these versions of Visual Studio or simply in all instances.
• We have added several documentation topics describing the installer/uninstaller command line options and the build process inside VS
• We have added documentation topics about catching errors in startup code and on some of the "special things" that the compiler does to your code.

The readme below contains a list of all the changes so far
A new build including these changes will be released in the next days (after extensive internal testing)

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