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Status Update August 11 - Updated August 15

: 11 August 2019

A quick status update to let you know that we are on schedule for our upcoming Bandol 2.0 release.

All of the open issues have been resolved and we have also successfully recompiled ReportPro 2, ReportPro 3 and Vo2Ado (now called Xs2Ado) with the X# runtime.
So those of you who depend on these libraries should expect no problems.

When no show stoppers are found this week then we'll release this version by the end of this week.

After that, for build 2.1, we will work on further Visual FoxPro compatibility, such as completing the FoxPro language support (class definitions, header file with the necessary commands) and FoxPro runtime support. Build 2.1 will also include the SDF and DELIM RDDs that are used to read and write text files. We also intend to add support for parameters by reference to functions and methods with CLIPPER calling convention.

Stay tuned !

August 15 update

Internal testing has revealed some problems that we really like to fix before shipping this new release. We need a couple of more days. Thanks for your patience !

XSharp Bandol RC 3

: 18 July 2019

We have just released XSharp Bandol RC3 for our Fox subscribers.

This build finalizes the XSharp runtime. The next build will be the XSharp Bandol GA release.

{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetup2RC3aFox.zip"}

If you want to download the complete list of changes click here:
{rsfiles path="general/Readme/whatsnew2RC3.rtf"}

Updated Bandol release schedule

: 15 July 2019

A short message about an update to our release schedule.

We had originally planned to do a final release of Bandol around July 15, so that is today.
Unfortunately we are not able to release today for various reasons. We are also approaching the holiday season and some of us are taking a short leave.

Our current schedule for the coming releases is:

Release	Description	Public	Date
2.0 RC 3	This will contain fixes to the runtime issues found in RC2 and an updated compiler and VS integration. In VS there are mainly some fixes to the Windows Forms Editor and other tools.	No	July 19
2.0 (GA)	No new features will be added in this build, only bug fixes to issues found in RC2 and RC3.	Yes	August 15
2.1	This build will add support for FoxPro style class creation and other FoxPro language elements, and some of the FoxPro runtime support.	No	September 15
2.2	This build will add Unicode/AnyCPU versions of the VO GUI classes and VO SQL Classes.	Yes	October ?

Please remember that these are targets. Dates and priorities may change, just like in your own software projects.

XSharp Bandol RC2 Runtime update

: 07 July 2019

We have just released an installer with updated runtime files for XSharp Bandol RC2 for our FOX subscribers.
This update contains many changes, in particular:

FPT writing in the DBFCDX RDD, and also reading of FlexFile arrays stored in FPT files
We have added support for the VFP Collations in the CDX driver
We have solved a few issues in the Advantage RDD and also exposed the AdsConnect60() function
We have added some missing defines to the Runtime and a version of the Crypt() function that works with byte[] values
We have added FieldGetBytes() and FieldPutBytes() to store binary data (encrypted passwords) to a DBF without having to worry about unwanted side effects of Ansi - Unicode translations.
We have fixed several issues in the macro compiler related to handling (DBF) fields with the same name as built in types, such as DATE and CODE (short for CodeBlock).
We have made several changes in the VOSDK libraries. The biggest change is that both System Classes and RDD Classes are now compiled with a target platform AnyCPU, so they can be used in X64 apps. We have also removed some late bound code from these class libraries, so the code should perform somewhat faster.

Please note that this setup must be installed on top of an existing RC2 installation. It does not include the compiler and VS support files. It only replaces the runtime components.

{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetupRt2RC2cFox.exe"}

If you want to download the complete list of changes click here:
{rsfiles path="general/Readme/rtwhatsnew2RC2c.rtf"}

Tickets have been moved to Github

: 17 June 2019

We got some request to move our ticketing system from the proprietry system on our website to Github.

As of today the GitHub issues list is our official bug list / todo list.

We can imagine that you don't want to share your problems with the rest of the world. So you can still mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will process your bug report confidentially.

In most cases bug reports send to us by mail will be posted by ourselves at Github (without the details of the person that posted the issue). Of course you can still follow these bugreports at Github.

The "Tickets" button on the top of this screen has now been changed and points to the Github issues page on the XSharpPublic repository.

We do not have the source of the Compiler in this repo (yet) but Compiler tickets will also be managed through Github.