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More and more people are using X# and are deploying their applications written in X#.

We have received some examples from our customers and have added a "gallery" of these example applications to this website. Click on the Examples menu option above to see a list of examples.

We'd love to hear from you as well and share your success story with the rest of the world. Please send us images and a short description of your application.

A great opportunity to look at successful applications is also the "Application Show" at the XBase.Future conference in April.

We'd love to see you there. Please register now !

It is time to let you know what we have done since beta 9.Below is a list of the things that are ready and will be included in beta 10.
We have also published the contents of our help file on the website.

Compiler

• We have completed support for the DEFINE keyword. The type clause is now optional. The compiler will figure out the type of the define when no type is specified.
  The DEFINEs will be compiled to a Constant field of the Functions class, or a Readonly Static field, when the expression cannot be easily determined at compile time.
• We have extended the preprocessor . It now has support for #command, #translatem #xcommand and #xtranslate
• Added ASTYPE expression, similar to the AS construct in other languages. This will assign a value of the correct type or NULL when the expression is not of the correct type:
      
          VAR someVariable := <AnExpression> ASTYPE <SomeType>

Visual Studio

• Tested and works with Visual Studio 2017 RC 4
• We have added supports for snippets and included several code snippets in the installer
• Added support for ARM and Itanium platform types
• The parser that is used in the Windows Forms editor now also properly handles background images in resource files. Both images in the resx for the form and also background images in the shared project resources
• We have added Nuget support for our project system.
• Added a project property to control how Managed file resources are included:  Use Vulcan Compatible Managed Resources
• Fixes several problems with dependent items
• Added implementation of the OAProject.Imports property, which is used by JetBrains

XPorter

• Fixed a problem converting WPF style projects

More than a year ago, we have published our first development Roadmap for the X# project. This new roadmap continues the tradition and describes what our plans for 2017 are.

Click here for a PDF with this document which also looks back at what we have achieved in 2016

Our plans for 2017

You will not be surprised that the open items from our roadmap for 2016  are still on the to do list for 2017. Some of the things on our to list:

• Improved Visual Studio support:
  • Nuget support
  • Editors for the VO Binaries
  • Support for other VS subsystems, especially those that are based on T4 templates.
  • “Intellisense” features for the editor, such as completion lists, parameter tips, Goto definition etc
  • Class browser and Object browser support
  • Debugger support for Globals and X# expressions
    
    
• Create the X# runtime, so you no longer need the Vulcan Runtime to run your apps that use RDDs and the VO SDK classes. Our intention is not only to replace the Vulcan runtime, but also to improve it.
  After all, we have done this before, so we can do it again, but then better!
  • Thread Safe runtime and RDD system
  • Runs on AnyCPU
  • Support Runtime Macros AND scripting (our macro compiler will support the complete language!)
  • Portable where possible. Unfortunately, there are many areas (IO related mostly) that can’t be completely portable
    
    
• Add support for an extra xBase language. At this moment, we are considering to add support for (x)Harbour. The (x)Harbour community is very active and seems to be the most interesting target audience.
  
  

We are proud to announce the release of XSharp Beta 9.
This beta mainly focuses on bug fixes and compatibility With this build we consider the VO and Vulcan support completed: the complete Vulcan SDK compiles as well as 99.9% of the 3rd party products, such as ClassMate, ReportPro, bBrowser and Vn2Ado. You should have no problems compiling your Vulcan code with this build of X#.

Many changes to the compiler have been released before as Beta 8a and Beta 8b. We have made some more changes since beta 8b mostly as a result of your feedback, for which we are very grateful.

This build also includes updated Visual Studio integration. Unfortunately not with Code completion and other editor features, but we did make quite some changes to the build system and project system. Not all of these are directly visible, but we fixed some glitches, especially with regard to dependent items, resource compilation, the error list etc. We have now also enabled all the VO compatibility compiler options in the project properties dialog.
And if you are wondering "where is my intellisense": we have decided to delay the Code completion support until the next build because we were not completely satisfied with it.

You will also find quite some changes in the documentation. All of the compiler options are documentation now, and we have included a list of the most common error numbers and messages.

Today we are uploading both a build for our Friends Of XSharp (FOX) subscribers and a public build. This public build is identical to the FOX build but does not include the optimized version of the compiler.

Last but not least: our special 30% discount on the price of a FOX subscription was expiring this week. We have decided to extend this price until February 15th. Click here to subscribe now