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Join Date: 03-06-2001
Location: Colorado
Posts: 6,034
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Version 4.0
Release on June 6, 2002
- Professional Version
- Tree display of steps, with ability to expand and collapse steps
- Custom action screens and components for many third party development tools to simplify the creation of build scripts
- Extensive debugging features (single-stepped execution, breakpoints, pause, etc.)
- Colorization of build output for easy navigation
- Editing and execution of Windows Script is fully integrated
- Full support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (of course, Visual Studio 6.0 is still supported as well)
- Ability to generate XML and HTML log files
- Integration with Windows Scheduled Tasks applet for easy scheduling of builds
- Full support for entry and display of Unicode text
- Many new user-configurable options
- Shortcuts to easily 1) jump to matching output for a step and vice versa, 2) Go to a top-level step, and 3) open a filename displayed in the build output (see View menu)
- Multiple failure steps can be defined in a project
- Subroutine steps allow modularizing code within a single project
- The build status of the steps can be saved in the project file
- COM Automation interface to access all application and build components programmatically
- Console application to run locally or remotely without requiring interactive desktop access or a GUI
- End-user creation of custom action screens and components
- Global macros and application options are stored in XML files instead of a user-specific registry key
- Single-click testing of steps
- Option for macros to be added to environment variables
- Search and replace in macros and script as well as steps
- Enhancements to tool tip feature
- Ability to specify multiple ranges of successful exit codes for the Run Program custom action
- Child projects started from a VisBuildPro Project action are launched minimized if the parent project is minimized
- Editing of multiple step properties at once via multiple selection
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