We couldn’t hold it much longer. (was about time!)
So we issued a preview build. Keep in mind that this is a preview build – we know it’s not completed, there are little glitches and issues left and right, things to polish a bit more, it may hang or crash your host application.
And it’s missing features: the Code Explorer (and its “virtual folders”) aren’t part of this release – that’s really not ready.
The Smart Indenter port is there though, and although the preview box doesn’t show it in the settings dialog, it works pretty well.
IDE-Integrated Git Source Control is there too, and works nicely as well.
A brand new shiny WPF UI for all docked toolwindows, a new settings dialog, “why?” rationale for every inspection result, “fix ’em all” across the project/module, or disable inspections with a single click.
Our parser/resolver is much more powerful now – all known parser issues (as of v1.4.3) are now fixed, and new ones you never encountered too.
Unit testing works in AutoCAD and CorelDRAW now, and although the settings have no effect, the API is there and you can use a new PermissiveAssertClass that evaluates Equals in a less strict type-safe way, to work more like VB6 would do it.
There’s a lot to say and a lot will be said I’m sure.
Poke around, play with it – by all means, break it – and if you do break it, make sure you let us know how, so we can fix it by the time we ship the “real” 2.0 build.
Apparently there’s still a few inspection false positives (although it should be much better than in 1.x), so make sure you double-check before you fix all occurrences in project.
To be continued…
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