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Major Release: Wednesday, 13-May-2015

gmBasic: VB6/ASP/COM Upgrade Engine

Section titled “gmBasic: VB6/ASP/COM Upgrade Engine”
  • Upgrades translation engine and default metalanguage files to V20.04.B7
  • Adds <Select UseHexConstants=“on|off”/> to enable better support for unsigned int and hex literals (beta)
  • Adds <Select OverloadArguments=“on|off”/> to preserve optional arguments in C# method declarations and calls (beta)
  • Adds status=“Nullable” on Refactor/Fixtype command to begin supporting nullable types
  • Adds support for up to 512 distinct operations in a single statement
  • Adds support for TimeSpan as an alternative target type for Dates
  • Improves support for reading VB6 designer data saved by Forms Interop Toolkit controls
  • Improves support for ParamArray modifier

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment

Section titled “gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment”
  • Improves Large System Assessment Capabilities
    Translation without code generation is now allowed on any size system.
    With this change, advanced analytics reports may be produced for any size system.

  • Improves Member type information presented on the Source Scan Report
  • Improves behavior of configuration file comparison on Settings Form.
  • Improves handling of clashes between internal names of VBP files
  • Adds ability to open #include files from Reference List

Sample Runtime Library

Section titled “Sample Runtime Library”
  • Improves ToBool() extension method emulate VB6 more closely

Sample COM Replacement Rules

Section titled “Sample COM Replacement Rules”
  • Improves upgrade for MSCOMCTL (ListView)