We have just returned from the XSharp Summit in Munich.

The event was a great success. There were many interesting sessions from the team and several external speakers.

We have also discussed the plans for the future of XSharp and listened carefully to the wishes and expectations of the attendees.

A date and venue for a summit in 2025 has not been set, but will be announced soon.

The session papers and examples have been uploaded to the website and are downloadable by attendees only.

Update: The session downloads from Chris have been updated and a download for Joshua has been added
Update2: The session download for the session from Robert about error handling and logging has also been added

It has been a while, so it is time for a progress update.

X# 2.21

At this moment we're finalizing X# 2.21 which should be presented to our beta testers in the coming week or so. This build will include some fixes for issues that were reported by our customers, and also a fix in the Visual Studio 2022 integration. This was needed because Microsoft has changed some very fundamental things in the Visual Studio editor in recent VS 2022 builds, which caused 3rd party components that were using a "legacy" language service to lose functionality, such as Format Document, Snippets and more.
In case you're wondering: we are using this "legacy" model because that's the only thing that works with VS 2017 and VS 2019 as well.
We also fixed an issue in the DBF driver to better support FoxPro tables for Multi Byte characters sets (Chinese, Japanese etc.) and to better support VO DBF files that are created in OEM mode (SetAnsi(FALSE)). And the Chinese Help file has many more translated pages.

X# 3

We are also working on X# 3. This version will support the .Net versions that came after .Net Framework. To support this, we had to update our build system and Visual Studio project support. X# 3 will also include an updated compiler that will be based on the C# 12 source. We will add support for new language features such as "Global Usings" and "File Based Namespaces". If you are missing a (recent) C# feature in X#, please let us know. Maybe you are missing "Records" or a special kind of pattern matching? With the update of the compiler, "all" we need to do is to invent a syntax that fits in the X# language.
The X# 3.0 runtime will introduce some breaking changes, so you will have to recompile your apps to work with X# 3. We will change some APIs to use 64 bit values instead of 32 bits values (such as the File IO functions) to support the larger file sizes on modern operating systems.
We also plan to release Runtime packages for X# 3 and later as NuGet Packages with assemblies for the various different platforms (.Net Framework, .Net 7, .Net 8 etc.). X# 3.0 should be available early 2025.

The X# Summit in Munich

In several weeks we will meet some of you at our summit in Munich. You can find the (preliminary) session schedule here.
The event is not sold out. We can (and would like) to add a few more of you to our list of attendees.
If you want to meet us and share your ideas about the future of the X# development, please register and join us in Munich.

In this forum post, you'll find a list of the sessions that we have planned for the X# Summit in Munich in October.

https://www.xsharp.eu/forum/topic?p=30885#p30885

We are in the process of planning the session schedule, and we could use your input to help schedule the sessions.

Please let us know what you are interested in.

And of course, you can also still register. More information can be found here.

If you want to learn and practice XSharp Core, you can start using our new XSharp Notebooks.

A Notebook is a file with cells, and each cell can be of different types.
A cell can contain text in Markdown format with instructions and help, or some code in a specific language, currently XSharp, that you will need to test and amend to your needs.

A series of Notebooks can be found here :
https://github.com/X-Sharp/xsharp-notebooks

You will find instructions to setup your learning environment : What you need, How to install, etc

You will also find folders with different levels and topics. Currently, the First Steps series focuses on XSharp Core, but we plan to offer Notebooks in other dialects in the future as well.  We also plan to offer several other topics (like SQL-basic with X#, etc).

These Notebooks are still under development, but you can already start your journey, and we hope you enjoy it! ;)

Today, we have released a public installer for XSharp Cahors 2.20.

The "What's New" document, describing all the changes, can be found here:

The public installer can be downloaded here:

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Today, we have released an installer (for our FOX subscribers) for XSharp Cahors 2.20, which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.19, as well as some new features.

The "What's New" document, describing all the changes, can be found here:

A public build of 2.20 will follow later.