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New Features in Visual Build Pro Version 5
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Navigation: Introduction > New Features > New Features in Visual Build Pro Version 5 |
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| • | Ability to generate HTML log files |
| • | Integration with Windows Scheduled Tasks applet for easy scheduling of builds |
| • | Enhancements to scripting capabilities Windows Script to add user-defined code to build events |
| • | End-user creation of custom action screens and components |
| • | New True comparison for conditional build rules (useful for script expressions in rules) |
| • | Child projects started from a VisBuildPro Project action are launched minimized if the parent project is minimized |
| • | Support for global subroutines that can be called from multiple projects |
| • | Enhancements to project properties dialog |
| • | Enhancements to drag/drop and copy/paste features |
| • | Editing of multiple step properties at once via multiple selection |
| • | Write to Windows Event Viewer when scheduled builds fail |
| • | Customization of the main and action toolbars now supported |
| • | Support for entry and display of Unicode text |
| • | Normal operation does not require power user privileges (although some build operations may require power or even admin user privileges) |
| • | Custom action screens and components for more third party development tools and several enhancements to existing actions: |
* InstallAnywhere (new)
* Make Delphi (new)
* Make JBuilder (new)
* Perforce (new)
* Run SQL (new)
* Sign Code (new)
* Set Current Dir (new)
* Subversion (new)
* Telnet
* Transform XML Log (new)
* Surround SCM (new)
* UNZIP Files (new)
* Vault (new)
* Wise
* ZIP Files (new)
Note: See the history page on the web site for full details.