XSharp Cahors 2.9
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- Created: 20 October 2021
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.9 which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8, and some new features, especially in the FoxPro compatibility area.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
| XSharp 2.9 what's new New Popular 2.9.0.2 300.28 KB | 2021-10-20 |
A public installer for version 2.9 will be published in the coming weeks.
To celebrate the release of X# 2.9 we have now a special offer for new subscribers:
If you use the discount code X#29 when buying a FOX subscription in our online shop you will get a 30% discount.
This discount code is valid until Nov 30, 2021.
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XSharp on Dutch Television - We believe in Open Source
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- Created: 13 October 2021
We had promised to publish the link to the TV item that was broadcasted on October 2 and October 5 on Dutch Television.
In this TV item we have tried to explain why we think that Open Source software is important and helps people to secure their investment in software for the future.
We have recorded this item in cooperation with Oliver Grün, from Grün Software Group from Aachen, Germany and some of the employees of his company.
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Online session: The X# preprocessor
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- Created: 17 September 2021
On Thursday September 30 we will have another online X# session. The topic for this session will be the X# preprocessor and how you can use User Defined Commands (UDC) to simplify your code.
For developers with a Clipper or Xbase++ background the preprocessor will probably have no secrets.
For other developers the preprocessor will be something that they have heard of but most likely have never really used.
The session will cover topics such as:
- when to use UDCs
- what is the difference between #command, #xcommand, #translate and #xtranslate
- match markers and result markers
- #include files
- conditional compilation using #ifdef
- predefined preprocessor macros
We will also show some examples from the X# header files and from the X# runtime source code.
The session will be presented by Robert and will start at 16:00 CEST.
The video of this session is in our youtube channel: https://youtu.be/qvbqxGt0zgQ
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XSharp on Dutch Television
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- Created: 22 September 2021
We have been asked to record a video for the Dutch TV program "Nederland Maakt Het" (The Netherlands Creates It).
The item will be broadcasted on Saturday October 2nd for the first time.
We will upload that video on this site about 1 week after the initial broadcast.
To give you an idea about the item here is a link to the "teaser"
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XSharp Cahors 2.8c
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- Created: 07 July 2021
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.8c which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8b that was released a few weeks ago.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
| XSharp 2.8c what's new Popular 2.8.3 251.96 KB | 2021-07-07 |
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What’s cooking
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- Created: 07 September 2021
We got some requests about the things we are currently working on. With this message we would like to give you some more information.
Short Term
We are working very hard on X# 2.9. This version will most likely be released end of September. The focus of this build is: stabilizing the compiler and runtime and improving performance of the VS integration and preparing for the move to Visual Studio 2022, which will be a 64 bits version of VS and preparing our VS integration for the move to .Net Core, .Net 5 and .Net 6. These 3 versions of the .Net framework come with tools that work with a new project file format (what’s called the SDK style projects).
As part of X# 2.9 we are also adding compiler support for the complete FoxPro language. Not all the runtime elements will be in place, but we will at least be able to compile all the FoxPro code. Some (unsupported) things will produce warnings.
Of course we are also fixing reported issues in the Runtime and Compiler.
Longer Term
Comments (7 Comments)Visual Studio 2022
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- Created: 18 June 2021
Microsoft has released a preview for Visual Studio 2022this week.
This is a completely revised version of Visual Studio that is now 64 bits.
Unfortunately they have not released this 64 bits version earlier to 3rd party developers, so we have not had the chance to prepare our Visual Studio integration for the 64 bit world yet.
Our installer does detect VS 2022 but our VS integration does not work yet.
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XSharp Cahors 2.8b
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- Created: 08 June 2021
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.8b which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8a that was released a few weeks ago.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
| XSharp 2.8b what's new Popular 2.8.2 226.1 KB | 2021-06-06 |
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Online session: Refactoring VO code to prepare for X#
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- Created: 17 May 2021
In the last weeks there have been some discussions on how to prepare VO code for the migration to X#.
Stefan Hirsch has volunteered to do a session about this on Thursday May 20, 16:00 CEST.
He will demonstrate this with a simple example of code that we all have created. Step by step he will refactor this in VO to prepare for the move to .Net
At the end of the session he will summarize how you can complete this code refactoring using Abstract classes and Interfaces.
The recording of the session has been uploaded to our youtube channel
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