Countdown and final preparations for the conference

With only 2 days left until the XBase.Future conference in Cologne, things are becoming a little hectic over here.Fabrice has traveled from the sunny France to a cold Netherlands, and together we have prepared the new Beta 3 that will be presented and used at the conference. This new beta with comes with many great new features. Some hightlights of this new build:

Visual Studio Integration

• Support for the Windows Forms Editor
• Support for the WPF Editor
• Support for selecting the dialect (see compiler below)
• Enhanced project property pages with editors for paths and pre and post build steps

Compiler

• There is now dialect support in the compiler. The previus beta only supported the Core dialect. Now we also support the VO/Vulcan dialect.
• We have started work on the Bring Your Own Runtime support for Vulcan. See separate heading below.
• Improved debugging output
• New macros (__ENTITY__ and __SIG__ ) for the preprocessor
• New PARAMS keyword for parameter list of method/function
• Slen() and AltD() are now supported by the compiler
• Added support for the DYNAMIC type

Bring Your Own Runtime

• XBase type names are resolved properly (ARRAY, DATE, SYMBOL, USUAL etc)
• Literal values are now resolved properly (ARRAY, DATE, SYMBOL)
• NULL_ literals are resolved properly (NULL_STRING follows the /vo2 compiler option, NULL_DATE, NULL_SYMBOL)
• Calling methods with Clipper calling convention works as expected.
• Methods/Functions without return type are seen as methods that return a USUAL
• If a method/function contains typed and untyped parameters then the untyped parameters are seen as USUAL parameters
• The ? command will call AsString() on the arguments

Please come and meet us in Cologne. If you haven't registered: it is not too late.