ALTERNET EXTENSIBILITY STUDIO 5.1

AlterNET Extensibility Studio 5.1 is a minor update focusing on improvements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations

Main enhancements include:

• 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.