Articles

XSharp Tools Library

: 15 July 2018

We have listened carefully to discussions on our forums and have decided to open up a new forum and later a new github repository for a XSharp Tools Library.
The idea is that this will be a library with user contributions that they want to share with other users.

At this moment we are considering 4 different libraries

XSharp.Tools.Core
A library with generic functions and classes that have no dependency on xBase types, such as ARRAY or DATE
XSharp.Tools.VO
A library with generic functions and classes that have a dependency on xBase types, such as ARRAY or DATE
XSharp.Tools.Windows.Forms
A library with generic functions and classes that have a dependency on System.Windows.Forms
XSharp.Tools.WPF
A library with generic functions and classes that have a dependency on WPF

Wolfgang Riedman has volunteered to become the moderator of the library and the forum as well. He will also establish the 'rules' for how you can contribute to the library.

It is our aim to include these libraries in the installation with every new build of XSharp. We will also generate documentation for these libraries based on the XML comments in the source.

The development team will take no formal responsibility for the contents of these libraries. Of course some development team members could contribute as an individual.

XSharp Bandol Beta 2

: 29 June 2018

We have just released XSharp Bandol Beta 2 to our FOX subscribers.

A public build will become available later today.

This build fixes some issues that were found in the runtime and the compiler in Beta 1.

It also fixes some issues in the Visual Studio 2017 integration.

The compiler has some changes compared to the previous build but is still of release quality.
The runtime is a beta version and should not be used for production code. It also misses some features that you may need.

Data Driven programming lessons

: 13 June 2018

Johan Nel has written a new article in his series about Data Driven programming that originally was posted on VOPS. We have uploaded this new article as well as the previous 8 articles and the example code to the General \ Lessions section in the Downloads menu entry on this website.

Thanks Johan !

XSharp Bandol Beta 1

: 13 June 2018

We have just released XSharp Bandol Beta 1 to our FOX subscribers.

This is the first release of X# that comes with runtime files.
The compiler has some changes compared to the previous build but is still of release quality.
The runtime is a beta version and should not be used for production code. It also misses some features that you may need.

X# Runtime progress report - continued

: 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>