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AlterNET Extensibility Studio 5.1 - minor update

A minor update focusing on improvements, bug fixes and performance optimizations.
6 September 2019

Main enhancements

  • Significantly faster installation process.

  • Performance optimizations of TypeScript/JavaScript parsing and syntax highlighting.

  • Multiple improvements and bug fixes related to Code Editor, Form Designer, and Script Debugger.

Below is a full list of changes in this release:

Code Editor

+ Added DataTips for WPF TextEditor, allowing to evaluate variables during debugging when hovering the mouse on top of the symbols.

+ Support for Roslyn 3.10/.NET 4.6.1 (available via NuGet Packages).

+ Appearance of code completion hints has been changed to match the latest Visual Studio.

- Fixed bug with drawing line styles and bookmarks after folded section.

- Fixed bug with duplicate text when dragging selected text in the WPF editor.

- Fixed crash when editing region/end region directives in C#/Visual Basic code.

- Fixed bug with nested JSON declarations in Advanced JavaScript parser.

Scripter/Debugger

+ Debugger UI Widgets now support localization.

- Fixed issues with incorrect displaying evaluation results for fields of the structures.

- Issue with ScriptDebugger hanging during stopping.

Form Designer

+ Added WinForms Form Designer Outline view control.

+ Rotate/Skew handles for WPF designer can now be optionally hidden.

- Fixed bug with running Visual Basic forms.

- Large numbers are now displayed as Infinity in WPF Properties grid.

- Clicking on Visibility Icon in the Outline control no longer changes the Visibility property of the selected control.

- Fixed bug with displaying context menu for WPF Outline control.

TypeScript

+ Optimized performance of TypeScript parsing and syntax highlighting.

+ Optimized subsequent compilation of TypeScript/JavaScript code.

+ Compilation of TypeScript/JavaScript code made more strict and now catches more errors.

- Fixed a few issues with loading/saving Form Designer content to TypeScript/JavaScript code.

Installation

+ Visual Studio extensions for AlterNET Software components are installed much faster now.

Demo projects and libraries

+ SQL DOM Parser now supports code completion.

+ Snippet Parsers demo: added class-less script support for C#/VisualBasic.

+ Extensibility Studio demo: Implemented loading/saving of the .NET Solution (.sln files)

+ Extensibility Studio demo: Selected text can now be dragged to the watch window during debugging.

+ Extensibility Studio demo: Support for debugging class library in the same Solution.