posted Jan 23, 2009 5:26 AM by Bob Black
Sorry folks, but I've been sick with the yearly winter nastiness the last couple of weeks. First a bad cough/cold thing, and then a horrible stomach virus that knocked me down and out for a few days. Needless to say, this is going to force me to move the 1.5 release date yet again.
This seems to happen every year around this time (Dec. - Jan. period). I'm really looking forward to warm weather. |
posted Jan 9, 2009 5:14 AM by Bob Black
I hate to say this, but it ain't done yet. Partly (mostly) because I zoned out over the holidays and totally forgot about this release, so I haven't actually been doing much for the last few weeks. Let's reset the clock for another 14 days, shall we?
Not to totally disappoint, I'll be releasing another minor update in a few short days to address a number of outstanding bugs that have been fixed since the last update, but haven't been deployed yet.
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posted Dec 11, 2008 7:04 AM by Bob Black
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This is an interim update ahead of the upcoming 1.5 release that includes tons of bug fixes, including several fixes to the Solution Explorer, a bug when saving template properties, and some enhancements to the document editor's browser drop-down (it works now).
Also included is support for several standard keyboard shortcuts, such as CTRL-F to launch the Find dialog, CTRL+SHIFT+B to build the project, and so forth. Shortcut keys are shown next to their associated menu items, and will be documented in a future release.
You can download this release via the Download CodeToaster link on the homepage.
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posted Nov 24, 2008 7:07 PM by Bob Black
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Code Toaster 1.2.2 is available for download. This release includes several bug fixes and back-end enhancements to resolve threading, parsing and other issues. A summary of some of the issues resolved is described below ...
- RESOLVED - The template parser is XML aware (it will warn you if it thinks you forgot to close a node/tag). Because of this, a bug arose where the translated code would be incorrect if a node was not closed in some cases.
- RESOLVED - Script blocks contained within XML attributes were not correctly parsed. For example: <node name="<%=Property%>"/> would not be parsed correctly.
- RESOLVED - A thread deadlock issue when retrieving database schema information in some cases.
- RESOLVED - Folders with illegal file characters (in the C# language) would cause compilation errors.
- CHANGED - The project filename is now used to determine the name of the compiled assembly, rather than the project's folder name.
- ENHANCEMENT - Added support for code bookmarks.
- ENHANCEMENT - Added support for a couple VS.Net style keyboard commands, such as CTRL+SHIFT+B to build the current project.
- ENHANCEMENT - The current template's Show Output button blinks when that template is executed, to alert the user that output is available for viewing. The button does not blink if the output pane is already expanded.
- ENHANCEMENT - Added support for viewing file, folder, and project properties via the Solution Explorer. Previously the properties window didn't really do anything.
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posted Nov 12, 2008 5:00 AM by Bob Black
I've moved the Code Toaster 1.2 release back a week to allow time to do further testing. The 1.2 release will include several bug fixes, performance enhancements, and support for saving template properties, among other things. |
posted Sep 29, 2008 10:53 AM by Bob Black
Code Toaster 1.0 is now available for download.
Some users of earlier versions will note that full Statement Completion support is no longer available. Unfortunately I had to remove that for now (to create a more stable first release), but will be adding it back shortly.
Documentation is included with this release, but is still sparse in some areas. I will be improving that in later minor releases.
This release is 100% .Net code (so 64-bit users should enjoy JIT'er benefits), tested on Vista and XP machines. If you have a multi-processor box you should also see a bit better performance.
Please let me know if you notice any problems (rmblack at gmail). Several of my beta testers bailed on me, so I had to do a lot of the testing myself. I have several video tutorials I will be posting in the coming days, so stop back often for more good stuff! |
posted Sep 24, 2008 6:29 AM by Bob Black
I've added a (work in progress) chm file for Code Toaster. Please see the Documentation page for download links. |
posted Aug 26, 2008 5:22 AM by Bob Black
I've begun the arduous task of documenting Code Toaster. You can view the first article, Templates - Getting Started, which provides a very general overview of how to build and execute a template project.
I'll be working on more (and hopefully better) online documentation (as well as video tutorials) as the 1.0 Release date approaches. Please leave comments with any questions or suggestions, things that are unclear, confusing, etc.
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posted Aug 16, 2008 8:16 PM by Bob Black
Welcome to the new CodeToaster.com web site!
Over the past year I've been diligently rewriting key components of Code Toaster to be rid of some of the problem third-party COM components. After all that hard work it is now 100% .Net code, and (much) faster than ever. Unfortunately I still have a bit to go before I feel comfortable releasing the bits, which I plan to do around the end of Sept, but so far I'm very pleased with how far the application has come.
I'll be posting details in later posts. I plan to post some video tutorials in the coming weeks as well. |
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