Build #57, 4/17/2008 NOTES Promotion from development to stable. This version has been tested by quite a few users and all reported issues have been resolved. There are some small performance improvements in this build, and we continue to work on optimization of the engine. When we promote from development...

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Build #56, 4/13/2008 NOTES This build is being built with a number of new tools on our end. It should not impact anything in the product (we hope), but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. Visual Studio Integration SDK (VSIP) - Now using the latest build from last year that includes some new tools and...

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Build #55, 03/20/2008 NOTES There is work being done on the drag and drop binding in Visual Studio for stored procs, this work is not yet complete. NUnit 2.4.6 is used to build these tests (may be required now due to new Asserts being used). ISSUES AND FIXES #443: Query with negative numbers in list...

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Build #52, 1/26/2008 NOTES This is a development build - the CF build has not been tested at all. NOTE: Only current subscribers have access to the development builds. A source edition for this build has been published as well. ISSUES AND FIXES #387: Alter procedure generates one if it does not exist...

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Build #50, 10/JAN/2007

NOTES

Compact Framework DLL was missing a manifest reference in Build 49 this has been fixed. 

We are also trying to get the NUnitLite framework running under Compact Framework for us to perform NUnit tests here as well.

Minor DDA API Corrections:

The IVistaDBTable had a TemporaryIndexes ability without loading the table schema, but you could not do the same for normal indexes. 

We added a RegularIndexes property now so you can also check for the existence of a regular index without having to load the table schema object

. PutFromFile had some corrections to it for datatypes.  The only valid datatypes are NChar and VarBinary base types (Image is a varbinary internally), other types throw an exception.
GetToFile is new for writing a blob (IMAGE/VARBINARY) field to a file directly on disk rather than getting the array in memory.

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Build #48, 12/21/2007 NOTES This is going to be considered 3.3 release candidate. It is our policy to not make API changes without a dot release increment. The WHILE keyword was not implemented, but we wanted to add it. So either we add to add it now, or wait until the 3.4 release. We decided to add...

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Build #47, 12/14/2007 NOTES TEMP Table Support - 2 types of temp tables CREATE #temptable - lives through lifetime of connection DECLARE @temptable TABLE - lives in scope of the query, syntax is used for stored procs and UDFs. Change in stored proc variables Variable scope within BEGIN/END block. Variables...

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Build #45, 11/26/2007 NOTES The new trial license is almost complete. It is now generated on the client machine, and then sent to the server to be signed with our private key. The trial license is then validated on the client using our public key (embedded in the engine). Since the assemblies are all...

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* * * * * * * * Build #44, 11/16/2007 * * * * * * * * BETA 3.3 - First Release of TSQL Proc Support BETA means BETA - Not meant for production usage yet. ***** NOTES ***** Please do not attempt to use ORMs like EntitySpaces and then complain to the vendor. Please realize that they are getting this beta...

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* * * * * * * * Build #43, 10/19/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** Build 42 used ALL the keywords from SQL Server 2005, even though it appears many of them are not enforced as keywords by Microsoft at this time. This build includes a more relaxed set of keywords, and removed some of the words that...

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Ok, Build 41 was pulled due to a problem with keywords and alias parsing. The documentation has been updated, and it is explained a bit below as well. * * * * * * * * Build #42, 10/9/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** Certain keywords are required to be bracketed for usage. Examples: key statistics...

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Build 41 - Stable We are going to release this as a stable build. Most of the changes made are for compliance with TSQL parsing, and only a few bug fixes. None of the bug fixes are considered to be risky and this version has been more heavily tested internally than any previous release. 400+ NUnit tests...

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* * * * * * * * Build # 37, 9/12/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** This build has been tested on (US) XP SP2, Vista 32 and 64 with VS 2005 (SP1 and Vista SP) and VS 2008 (BETA 2). No admin execution was required for the Data Builder. No SDK was required for the Data Designer. We need your help testing...

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Build # 36, 9/07/2007 NOTES The VistaDB.Web.DLL was accidentally left out of the last installer. It is included in this one and installed to the GAC. The source for the membership provider is also included. ISSUES AND FIXES #230 - Designer data connections fail after installing 3.2 - Fixed #231 - 3.2...

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Build 35 is now available for subscribers. This should be considered a BETA / development build. We had to push off some features for another release. I expect to start releasing every other week again for a while as we stabilize and add on to this release. * * * * * * * * Build # 35, 8/31/2007 * * ...

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* * * * * * * * Build #33, 7/30/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** **************** ISSUES AND FIXES **************** Bug #187: Help file udpate to use Sandcastle. New CHM file included and shortcuts updated. Bug #39: FilterRowCount property is missing - ScopeKeyCount has been added to show the number...

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* * * * * * * * Build #32, 7/16/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** We have updated our NUnit to now use version 2.4.1 and the NUnit examples now assume the default path. The older NUnits should continue to work. NUnit release notes **************** ISSUES AND FIXES **************** Bug #165: Find...

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This development build is once again a full setup. * * * * * * * * Build #31, 7/8/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** The Data Migration Wizard code to SQL Server was touched quite a bit. So we need some good testing on that code. We do not have an NUnit way of testing the SQL Server migration yet...

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We have released Stable Build 30! This has been a long road of changes since Build 25. We are very pleased with the current round of opmizations. * * * * * * * * Build # 30, 6/26/2007 * * * * * * * * This is a stable build - a new trial download will be issued for this as well. To see all the changes...

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Alright, another development build. This one mostly takes care of some schema, JOIN and CONSTRAINT errors that were found in build 28. * * * * * * * * Build # 29, 6/22/2007 * * * * * * * * THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT BUILD! PLEASE TAKE CARE AND BACKUP YOUR DATA. ***** NOTES ***** Wildcard search in FTS indexes...

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Alright, another development build. This one mostly takes care of some schema, JOIN and CONSTRAINT errors that were found in build 28. Build # 29, 6/22/2007 THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT BUILD! PLEASE TAKE CARE AND BACKUP YOUR DATA. NOTES Wildcard search in FTS indexes is broken for multiple columns in the FTS...

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