Hi All,

Code Complete 3.5 Beta 2 version is now available for download. It includes tutorials for generating windows, web and WPF applications for both the Northwind and PTracker database.


Installation:


Unistall Beta 1 if you have installed it. Code Complete 3.5 will install side by side with version 3.0 and can run in parallel. There is no need to uninstall version 3.0.

Here just some of the new features included in Beta 2 (in addition to once listed in Bet 1):


Bug fixes from Beta 1.
The business and data layer templates have changed to fix some bugs (mainly warnings)
Data source wizard: possibility of specifying table prefixes.
Support for Janus, Infragistics and DevExpress for both windows and web application. The web templates have been rewritten to use User Controls, data binding and Ajax.

We are looking at releasing an RTM in two weeks time. The support for silverlight, EF and NHibernate has been delayed until the next release.

Thank you for your support and feedback. I would appreciate any suggestions to improve the templates for the third party controls.


Regards


Philip

There is a bug in the trial version of Beta2 (not in the full version available for subscribers). The generated code conntains errors in the DTInfo objects. We have fixed that and loaded a version on the site.

Philip

I started a new project with one table and get this error ?

Error: t_document_verkoop_detail failed to create. Error message: System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.MissingFieldException: Field not found: 'CodeComplete.Wizard35.ColumnManager.VistaDBDataType'.

I created a WPF / LINQ project with Beta 2. When I finished the project wizard, it started building briefly and then Visual Studio was gone. I opened the project that was created and it has three projects in the solution. The main one has a few sufolders and an App.config, App.xaml and a Window1.xaml file. The other two only have properties and references in them. When I double-click Window1, Visual Studio goes away. There is no log file created (that I can see).

We do have that problem from time to time and we try gain it works. I ma sure why but it is to do with VS.

Philip

I removed all the included dll refreneces except for the ones mentioned in the Northwind tutorial. I also changed from LINQ to ADO. I tried creating a Windows application instead of a multi-tier. I tried removing WPF Toolkit. Every time I try to create the project, Visual Studio goes away.

I removed all the included dll refreneces except for the ones mentioned in the Northwind tutorial. I also changed from LINQ to ADO. I tried creating a Windows application instead of a multi-tier. I tried removing WPF Toolkit. Every time I try to create the project, Visual Studio goes away.

I am not sure why you are having these issues. I know that GAT and Sculpture have caused some issues with Code Complete. have you installed these products recently? Is it hapening only when you generate WPF? and finally do you have VS SP1 installed?

Thanks

I had an issue trying to generate applications with ReSharper installed. The generation would run very very slowly (presumably due to ReSharper attempting to scan references and types for it's cache) and then it would unable to save any of the project files or add references to them (Error indicated that the file name was invalid i think). Disabled ReSharper and everything generated flawlessly.

-Jeff French