Version 6.5

[kinook]

Released on August 27, 2007

New Actions

Oracle

Sandcastle

Setup Factory for Windows Installer

Action Enhancements

Flare action: Support v3.

FTP/HTTP/Newsgroup/Send Mail/Telnet actions: Handle protocol prefix on server name.

InstallAware action: Support v7.

Make C++Builder action: Support C++Builder 2007.

Perforce action: Support v2007.2.

Run Program/VisBuildPro Project actions: 1) Add option to log PsExec output on Remote tab; 2) Prevent license agreement prompt of newer PsExec versions.

Team Build action: Support v2008 Beta 2.

Team Foundation action: Support v2008 Beta 2.

Team Test action: Support v2008 Beta 2.

Write XML action: Add Prohibit DTD option.

Enhancements

GUI App: 1) Custom image in Build Rule column of step grid to indicate repeating rule; 2) Honor 'Tools | User Options | Save expand/collapse state of steps' option for global subroutine steps.

Logging components: 1) Prevent duplicate messages in Event Viewer; 2) Application option to disable writing to Event Viewer.

Scripting: 1) Add vbld_MSXML function (VBScript only); 2) vbld_GetFileContents handles BOM (UTF-8 and Unicode encodings).

Bug Fixes

Builder component: Run Script and script-based actions run with wrong identity under ASP.NET when using impersonated identity.

Make Delphi action: Action would never finish when building via MSBuild.

Samples: 1) Fix PsExec download URL in Server.bld sample; 2) WebLauncher sample (ASP.NET 1.1) missing VisBuildSvr reference.

Run Program action/Builder.RunProgramEx: 1) Output file deleted after step completes and contents logged; 2) Write to stdin attempted even when no input specified (can result in error in rare situations); 3) Build hangs if program returns exit code 259; 4) returnOutput parameter ignored if logOutput parameter is false or if reading output from file.

Various actions: Bug fixes in regular expression library.