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We have uploaded a new version of the compiler for our FOX subscribers to the Prerelease area on this website. This version fixes several issues that have been reported by our customers.

New features:

• Anonymous type members no longer have to be named. If you select a property as an anonymous type member then the same property name will be used for the anonymous type as well.
• Missing closing keywords (such as NEXT, ENDIF, ENDCASE and ENDDO) now produce better error message.
• We have started work on VO/Vulcan style of skipping arguments in the middle of a list of arguments.
  VO/Vulcan style default parameters of xBase specific datatypes (such as SYMBOL or DATE literals) are not supported yet.
• IIF Expressions are now also allowed as Expression statement. The generated code will be the same as if an IF statement was used

We have just uploaded new installers for XSharp Beta 7a.
The XPorter tool has also been updated and is included in the installer.
Changes sinces Beta 7:

Compiler

• The compiler was not accepting wildcard strings for the AssemblyFileVersion Attribute and the AssemblyInformationVersion attribute. This has been fixed
• The #Pragma commands #Pragma Warnings(Push) and #Pragma Warnings(Pop) were not recognized. This has been fixed.
• The compiler was not recognizing expressions like global::System.String.Compare(..). This has been fixed

Visual Studio Integration

• Dependent items in subfolders of a project were not recognized properly and could produce an error when opening a project
• Fixed a problem in the VulcanApp Template
• The Windows Forms Editor would not open forms in a file without begin namespace .. end namespace. This has been fixed
• Source code comments between 'entities' in a source file is now properly saved and restored when the source is regenerated by the form editor
• Unnecessary blank lines in the generate source code are being suppressed
• The XPorter tool is now part of the Installation
• Comments after a line continuation character were not properly colored
• Changed the XSharp VS Editor Color scheme to make certain items easier to read
• New managed resource files would not be marked with the proper item type. As a result the resources would not be available at runtime. This has been fixed.

Setup

• The installer, exe files and documentation are now signed with a certificate

We have added an example to the downloads section on the website with which you can convert your Visual Studio solutions with Vulcan source code from Vulcan.NET to XSharp.

Navigate to https://www.xsharp.info/itm-downloads?folder=general%252FSamples to download the example and start converting your projects.

Last year in the last week of September we have announced XSharp at the DevShare conference in the United Kingdom.
One year later XSharp is no longer a promise but a full blown product!

We are pleased to announce that we have released XSharp Beta 7 both to our FOX subscribers and to the general public today.
XSharp Beta 7 is a major step forward, especially compared to Public Beta 1 from February 2016.
Many new features have been added to the product, and major steps have been made to make X# compatible with Visual Objects and Vulcan.NET.

This version has almost all of the features that are needed to compile Vulcan.NET applications.
We still call this version a Beta version because it misses a very small number of features to compile your Vulcan applications, but the quality of the product is not Beta software at all but Release quality.

Now is a great time to look at XSharp and to test your VO and Vulcan code with XSharp.