Major Release: Monday, 06-April-2015

Apr 5, 2015

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

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

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

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