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

Today we have released a new installer for XSharp Bandol 2.3a to our FOX subscribers.

The changes in these release are:

Compiler

• When compiling in case sensitive mode, the compiler now checks to see if a child class declares a method that only differs from a method in its parent class by case
• The warning message about assigning to a foreach iterator variable has been changed from "Cannot assign" to "Should not assign"
• #pragma warnings was not working with the xs1234 syntax but only with numbers. This has been corrected.

Runtime

• Added the SetFieldExtent method to the IRdd interface
• The USUAL type no longer "caches" the dialect setting
• Fixed some problems with ACopy() with skipped or negative arguments.
• The return value for Alias() is now in upper case.

Today we have released a new installer for XSharp Bandol 2.3 to our FOX subscribers.

The complete readme with the description of the changes can be found here

{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetup23Fox.zip"}

A short report on what we have been doing in the last months. The things below will be included in the next build (2.3) that will be released in the coming week.

Compiler

We have added support for #pragma options and #pragma warnings. We have also added support for FoxPro Currency literals ($123.4567). We have also added support for the /cs (Case Sensitive) compiler option. And the compiler now also includes a string version of the compiled codeblocks, so you can see what the original source looked like in the debugger. And several other smaller issues were fixed as well.

Runtime

We have added prototypes for all FoxPro functions that we plan to support. They are not all implemented yet, but they are included in the help file already with a "-- todo--" comment (See also https://www.xsharp.info/runtimehelp/html/T_XSharp_VFP_Functions.htm). We have also added fixed several reported issues and added support for the FoxPro Currency type. Usuals can now also be of type "currency".

RDD system

In the last years we have presented you with a development roadmap at the beginning of the year. And that is a tradition that we'd like to keep.

Below is an overview of what we are planning to do in 2020. Of course we will also continuously keep fixing bugs and keep adding small enhancements as we like.

Finally the obvious disclaimer: these are our plans. They are not set in stone. We will adjust these plans whenever we see fit.

Today we have released a new installer for XSharp Bandol 2.2a to our FOX subscribers.

The most important change in this build is that we have fixed the error message that was shown inside Visual Studio after installing X# 2.2 and loading a solution without X# projects (why would you want to do that <g>)

The complete readme with the description of the changes can be found here

{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetup22aFox.zip"}