We got some requests about the things we are currently working on. With this message we would like to give you some more information.
Short Term
We are working very hard on X# 2.9. This version will most likely be released end of September. The focus of this build is: stabilizing the compiler and runtime and improving performance of the VS integration and preparing for the move to Visual Studio 2022, which will be a 64 bits version of VS and preparing our VS integration for the move to .Net Core, .Net 5 and .Net 6. These 3 versions of the .Net framework come with tools that work with a new project file format (what's called the SDK style projects).
As part of X# 2.9 we are also adding compiler support for the complete FoxPro language. Not all the runtime elements will be in place, but we will at least be able to compile all the FoxPro code. Some (unsupported) things will produce warnings.
Of course we are also fixing reported issues in the Runtime and Compiler.
Longer Term
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.8c which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8b that was released a few weeks ago.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
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Microsoft has released a preview for Visual Studio 2022this week.
This is a completely revised version of Visual Studio that is now 64 bits.
Unfortunately they have not released this 64 bits version earlier to 3rd party developers, so we have not had the chance to prepare our Visual Studio integration for the 64 bit world yet.
Our installer does detect VS 2022 but our VS integration does not work yet.
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.8b which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8a that was released a few weeks ago.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
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{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetup28bFox.zip"}
We have uploaded a new public version of XSharp Cahors 2.8a.
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In the last weeks there have been some discussions on how to prepare VO code for the migration to X#.
Stefan Hirsch has volunteered to do a session about this on Thursday May 20, 16:00 CEST.
He will demonstrate this with a simple example of code that we all have created. Step by step he will refactor this in VO to prepare for the move to .Net
At the end of the session he will summarize how you can complete this code refactoring using Abstract classes and Interfaces.
The recording of the session has been uploaded to our youtube channel
Today we have released an installer for XSharp Cahors 2.8a which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.8 that was released a few weeks ago.
The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:
{rsfiles path="general/Readme/whatsnew28a.rtf"}
{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetup28aFox.zip"}
A public version of X# 2.8a will follow shortly
We have come to an agreement with Sven Ebert to take over support and maintenance for SEUIXP, so you will be able to convert your VO apps that use this library to X#.
A few days from now you will be able to buy an update to SeUIXP for X# from this website and to download a X# ready version of XEUIXP from here too.
Stay tuned !