Version 6.3

[kinook]

Released on March 19, 2007

New Actions

AccuRev

Alienbrain

DeployMaster

HelpStudio

HyperText Studio

PVCS

RoboHelp

SetupBuilder

Action Enhancements

Advanced Installer action: Support v4.

Burn CD/DVD action: 1) Add option for whether to include empty subdirectories; 2) Log folders as well as files when logging is enabled.

Flare action: Support v2.

Help & Manual action: Support for v4.3 (XML format option).

InstallAnywhere action: Support v8.

InstallAware action: Support v6.

Make Delphi action: 1) Support Delphi 2007; 2) Support Turbo Delphi/C++/C# 2006.

Perforce action: Support v2006.2.

StarTeam action: Support v2006.

Surround SCM action: Support v5.

Transform XML Log action: 1) Support passing of generic parameters and mode to stylesheet; 2) Use MSXML6 if available.

Virtual PC action: Support v2007.

VMware Workstation action: 1) Support v6; 2) Document use of VMware Workstation action to manipulate snapshots in VMware Server.

Wise action: Support Wise Installation Studio v7.

Write XML action: 1) Support creating elements; 2) Support selection namespaces.

Enhancements

Application component: Support for namespaces in READ_XML system macro.

Builder component: 1) Significantly increase performance of step processing, especially Process Files actions with many files and iterating steps; 2) Improve performance of Builder.LogFileContents method for large files.

GUI App: 1) Support for Office 2007 theme (Tools | Customize | Options); 2) Support Vista file dialogs; 3) Support customization of context (right-click) menus (Tools | Customize | Menus); 4) Allow environment variables in backup path and default to auto-saving backups in TEMP path (Tools | User Options | Printing/Backups); 5) Category drop-down list in Actions pane Filter field; 6) Simplified license info entry.

Uninstaller: Option to not delete user configuration settings.

Bug Fixes

Builder component: 1) Step with build rule of 'true is false' is built instead of skipped; 2) Run Script step that calls Builder.Sleep and is canceled is marked as completed instead of aborted.

GUI App: 1) +/- tree buttons too large on Vista when using large fonts; 2) Help | Keyboard Map not working.

Help & Manual action: Uses wrong flag for ebook format.

IIS Virtual Dir action: Don't create path on local computer when creating virtual directory on remote computer.

Make Delphi action: 1) Update C++Builder 2006 project .res file with version info; 2) Project .res file not created if it didn't already exist.

Make VS.NET action: $(ProjectDir) macro not processed correctly.

Map Drive action: Logs output twice.

NCover action: Assemblies and Attributes fields not processed correctly.

Run Program action: Support simultaneous execution of remote commands in parallel builds.

StarTeam action: Don't escape colon characters in View field.

VisBuildPro Project action: 1) Wrong flag used for 'Global scripts file' field; 2) Support simultaneous execution of remote builds.

VMware action: VMWare action can encounter regex errors.

'Class not registered' error could occur if VBP configuration data path didn't exist.