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We are pleased to share with you our roadmap for 2016

In short this roadmap looks like this:

Estimated Month	Name	Contents / Motto
February 2016	First Public Beta	Core Xbase language
April 2016	Spring 2016	Support for Vulcan -1: “Bring your Own Runtime”
July 2016	Summer 2016	Support for Vulcan -2:  “Improve Your Own Runtime”
October 2016	Autumn 2016	Support for Vulcan -3:  “Use the XSharp Runtime”
Christmas 2016	Winter 2017	Other Xbase dialects

Please come and meet us at the XBase Future conference in April in Cologne. We would love to share our ideas with you and hear about your ideas for the future for XBase in the .NET world

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We are pleased to offer you the first public beta of XSharp (X#).

When we started this project we have promised a first beta version in the first quarter of 2016, and that has not been an empty promise!

You can download the beta now from this website for free. The only thing that we request from you is that you register yourself as user on our website.

Of course we would like to "warn" you that it is still a beta version of our product. It is not finished yet.

This beta version of the compiler supports the “Core” language, that means that VO & Vulcan specific datatypes such as DATE, ARRAY, USUAL, SYMBOL, FLOAT etc. are not supported yet.

The Visual Studio integration supports the Edit/Compile/Debug cycle. Only the source code editor is supported. Other editors, such as the WPF editor, Forms Editor and Resource editor are not supported yet.

The debugger may stop more often than you would expect.

Please note that this is an early build of the compiler. Some things will NOT work, you can be sure of this.

Please also read our other article about our Roadmap and support options.

 

On behalf of the XSharp Development team

Robert van der Hulst

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It is time for a quick status update:

• The first public Beta will be released in the coming week. Is is a little bit delayed because the flu epidemy has unfortunately also found its way to one of our team members.
• We will also publish a public Roadmap next week in which we will give you an impression of what you can expect from us in 2016. It is going to be an exciting year.
• We hope that you have already booked your ticket for the xBase.Future conference in April in Cologne. If not then please visit http://www.visualobjects.de/en/conference/ and book for the special early bird price which is valid until the end of this month.
  We have planned to demonstrate and release our version 1 product at that conference! More details about that will be in the roadmap. Of course this conference is also the perfect place to tell us what you would like to see added to X#.

On behalf of the team,

Robert van der Hulst

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Another new build of X# has been released to our FOX subscribers. This build was mostly focused on making the compiler more compatible with the VO an Vulcan xBase language. Some of the changes are:

• The "ns" (add default namespace to classes without namespace) has been implemented
• The "vo3" compiler option (to make all methods virtual ) has been implemented
• Fixed an issue where the send operator on an expression between parentheses was not compiling properly
• Relational operators for strings (>, >=, <, <=) are now supported. They are implemented using the String.Compare() method.
• Fixed a problem with local variables declared on the start line from FOR .. NEXT statements
• Added first version of the documentation in CHM & PDF format
• Added several properties to the Visual Studio Project properties dialog to allow setting the new compiler options
• Fixed a problem in the Targets files used by MsBuild because some standard macros such as $(TargetPath) were not working properly
• XIDE 0.1.7 is included. This version of XIDE is completely compiled with XSharp !
• The name of some of the MsBuild support files have changed. This may lead to problems loading a VS project if you have used the VS support from the previous build. If that is the case then please edit the xsproj file inside Visual Studio and replace all references of "XSharpProject" with "XSharp" . Then safe the xsproj file and try to reload the project again.
• The WHILE.. ENDDO (a DO WHILE without the leading DO) is now recognized properly

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