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Major Release: Monday, 06-April-2015

Apr 5, 2015

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gmBasic: VB6/ASP/COM Upgrade Engine

• Upgrades translation engine and default metalanguage files to V20.04.B4
• Adds user-defined control of coding style (Naming Conventions, Formatting, Optional Arguments, Simple Property Syntax, etc.) This feature is in beta.
  See Custom Coding Style
• Adds user-defined control of upgrading Collection and Scripting Dictionary to strongly-typed Generic collections. This feature is in beta.
  See Strongly-Typed Generic Collections
• Improves handling of user-defined types containing fixed-length arrays of fix-size strings
• Improves handling of name clashes between local enums and global symbols
• Improves support for loading very large resx files by selecting a larger CodeSize
• Improves formatting hex literals in constant declarations to use hex rather than numeric literals in .NET
• Improves initialization of enum variables to use the enum entry with value = 0 rather than the literal 0
• Improves support for project-specific meta-language files
• Improves Refactor/Fixtype for controlling byref/byval optimization of arguments of user-defined types

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment

• Improves Registration Form validation
• Improves logic to compute a quick line count for multi-project upgrade scripts
• Improves logic to find renamed or moved translation script template
• Fixes invalid folder error when computing LOC for files added to a new ASP Upgrade project

Sample Upgrade Solutions

• Upgrades all standard samples to reflect the latest translation and runtime improvements and conventions.

Sample Upgrade Rules

• Improves Microsoft Common Controls upgrade rules
• Adds sample Coding Style rules (CodeStyle.std.xml)
• Add samples Generic Collections rules (Migration.std.xml)

Sample Runtime Library

• Improves ResumeNext function to try-catch all of the operations in block of code (beta)
• Improves VB6 Form Emulation
• Improves Global Exception Handling
• Improves ADODB Emulation
• Improves CommonDialog Emulation

Major Release: Thr, 15-Mar-2015

Mar 22, 2015

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gmBasic: VB6/ASP/COM Upgrade Engine

• Upgrades translation engine and default metalanguage files to version 20.04.B2
• General cleanup and reorganization of metalanguage files
• Adds support for loading proprietary ActiveX Designer information (e.g. DataDynamics ActiveReports report layouts)
• Removes Subsystem=ooc support; this will be moving forward as Subsystem=loc

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment

• Improves Settings Form to allow comparing custom COM API upgrade rules to default API descriptions
• Improves Translation script handling to be more forgiving of XML syntax errors
• Improves Structure Report to correctly report name of Designers rather than their file name
• Improves the Source Scan report to include type and name of containing method where applicable
• Allows running Target Code Scan report in Reporting-Only mode
• Changes default “Program Files” folder paths in gmStudio.cfg to (x86) variant (standard for 64-bit windows)
• Adds support for source folders containing single quotes (correcting problems with Build Order reports and File Edit operation)
• Improves handling of international character sets in type library helpstrings
• Improves license file activation conventions

Sample Upgrade Solutions

• Upgrades all standard samples to reflect the latest translation and runtime improvements and conventions.

Sample Upgrade Rules

• Improves LightWeight Object Oriented coding standard specification in ScriptRules.xml

Runtime Library

• Improves ResumeNext function to try-catch all of the operations in block of code (beta)

Major Release: Mon, 09-Feb-2015

Feb 9, 2015

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gmBasic: VB6/ASP/COM Upgrade Engine

• Upgrades translation engine and default metalanguage files to version 20.03.00
• Improves generated code to reduce .NET build errors and further increase semantic accuracy
• Improves With Block handling
• Improves Error Handling in general and On Error Resume Next in particular (C#)
• Improves Error Handling in general and On Error Resume Next in particular (VBN + UsetryCatch)
• Improves GoSub when labeled block does not have a Return statement

gmStudio: Solution Development Environment

• Improves support for Project-Specific licensing and pricing model
• Improves licensing so that one license file may be used with different project signature files
• Improves Translation status detection and reporting when code authoring is deliberately blocked or omitted

Sample Upgrade Solutions

• Upgrades all standard samples to reflect the latest tool and runtime support improvements.

Sample Upgrade Rules

• Improves Windows Common Controls (MSCOMCTL) to WinForms rules

Runtime Library

• Adds a ResumeNext function to try-catch all of the operations in block of code (beta)
• Improves Data Access library
• Improves VB6 enumerations for stub generation

Minor Release: Thursday, 22-Jan-2015

Feb 8, 2015

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gmBasic Translation Engine

• Upgrades translation engine and default metalanguage files to V20.03B8
• Improves accuracy and consistency of generated code to reduce .NET build errors
• Improved Handling of With Blocks
• Improves metalanguage file idf\MigrationSupport.dll.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\authorText.gmsl
• Improves metalanguage file lang\VBASIC.XML
• Improves metalanguage file lang\vbcontrols.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\vbmethods.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\vbconstants.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\opcodes.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\VB7Lang.xml
• Improves metalanguage file lang\wpfSubsystem.gmsl

gmStudio IDE

• Improves Registration Form layout to support project-specific licensing
• Improves About gmStudio report to reflect project-specific licensing
• Renames trancfg\lang to trancfg\metalang

Sample Upgrade Solutions and Rules

• Improves fmStocks Web site upgrade sample

Runtime Library

• No changes

Major Release: Monday, 12-Jan-2015

Jan 11, 2015

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gmBasic VB6/ASP/COM Processor (V20.03.B6)

• Improves accuracy and consistency of generated code to reduce .NET build errors
• Improves event handling setup for VB.NET to use AddHandler exclusively
• Improves handling of Implements statements
• Improves handling of LCID attribute in COM API definitions
• Improves type inference logic
• Adds type Char as a refinement for symbols that were type Byte in VB6/COM

gmStudio IDE

• Improves Code Structure Report to reduce false positive duplicate file
• Improves IDF Scan report to show full location more accurate
• Improves Project-Specific Metalang file activation/deactivation
• Improves VS2013 Solution File Generation to correctly support VB.NET and mixed languages solutions
• Add Search and Report Symbol Tables
• Adds support for Project-Specific Licensing
• Adds AllowMixedLangSln application config setting to allow mixed languages solution file generation
• Improves reference report to include classes instantiated in a With statement

Sample Upgrade Rules

• Adds GM.MSOUTL_Interop.OLB.xml
• Adds GM.Comsvcs_to_EnterpriseServices.dll.xml
• Improves GM.richtx32.ocx.xml
• Improves GM.scrrun.dll.xml
• Improves GM.TABCTL32.OCX.xml and TabctlTransform.gmsl
• Improves GM.ADODB_to_DataLib.dll.xml
• Improves GM.COMDLG32.OCX.xml
• Improves GM.Comsvcs.dll.xml
• Improves GM.MSCOMCTL.OCX.xml

gmRuntime Library

• Adds On Error Resume Next handling using runtime IL Injection (beta)

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