ApexSQL Doc 2010.01 released

Adds two new output formats - Word document 97-2003 (.doc) & Word document 2007 (.docx).

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Object filter Table selection in ApexSQL Doc.

ApexSQL Doc is a tool to document your SQL Server Database. ApexSQL Doc offers extensive, comprehensive and thoroughly detailed SQL Database documentation. ApexSQL Doc will automatically document your database into compiled HTML help (chm) format or HTML and includes many customizable options and a command line interface.

ApexSQL Doc is also available as part of ApexSQL Developer Studio and ApexSQL Universal Studio

Updates in 2010.01

• Application now supports 2 new output formats: Word document 97-2003 (.doc) and Word document 2007 (.docx)
• Encrypted SQL Server 2005/2008 objects can now be decrypted and documented (requires membership in the sysadmin server role)
• Fulltext Stoplists can now be documented
• SSIS Packages resided in SQL Server 2008R2 can now be documented
• Extended properties on databases are now get documented
• New VS 2010 style is now available for HTML-based output formats and set by default in all new projects
• Custom text edit boxes now offer HTML syntax highlighting and auto completion of HTML tags
• New Office 2007 style interface with ribbon bar, quick access toolbar, and ApexSQL Doc button has been introduced
• New Resources ribbon bar has been introduced for quick access to Help page, Support forum, Training page, FAQs, Knowledge base, Troubleshooting, Contact and Get Updates dialog boxes
• New standard Project Management dialog has been introduced
• Project Management dialog now shows recently used projects or projects stored in any folder of choice
• Projects can be Pinned/Un-Pined to Recent Projects list on Project Management dialog
• Project description can be edited directly from Project Management dialog
• 'Show on Startup' option has been added to Project Management dialog box
• Startup Action options group has been added to Options dialog to control Project Management dialog behavior. Available choices are 'Show Project Management dialog', 'Show last opened project' and 'None'
• Project Defaults can now be defined for newly created projects
• Project options can now be saved as current user defaults settings
• Project options can now be reset either to current user or to ApexSQL defaults
• Each project option has now an associated tooltip with description
• New Object Filter Editor allows to filter objects based on 'Exclude if' or 'Include if' conditions
• New Object Filter Editor can use the following comparison operators: 'Equal', 'Not Equal', 'Between', 'Not between', 'Contains', 'Not contains', 'Begins with', 'Ends with', 'Any of' and 'None of' and the following logical operators: 'And', 'And not', 'Or' and 'Or not'
• Main window status bar has been redesigned and now shows numbers of selected databases and SSIS packages and output format
• New tooltip balloons have been added to data source bars of main window status bar
• Options dialog has been redesigned with new Office 2007 button bar
• Application can now be presented in 3 color schemes: Blue, Silver and Black
• The following connection options have been added to Add/Edit SQL Server dialog: 'Execution timeout' and 'Encrypt connection'
• The following new switches have been added to CLI: /fso [/ft_stoplist_options] - Specifies Fulltext Stoplist documenting options

About ApexSQL

ApexSQL LLC is a leading provider of value added software tools for Microsoft SQL Server. The company has a simple goal - be the best company for acquiring and retaining customers of SQL Server Tools in the world. It looks to accomplish this by dedicating itself completely to the customer via rapid response to service, support and sales requests and customer friendly policies. ApexSQL is so committed to support it has created a Support Engineers Creed. The company strives to deliver the maximum amount of functionality and features to the customer in the spirit of Microsoft Software Development and to be incredibly responsive to feature requests from users. ApexSQL has a singular commitment to develop and design the best SQL Tools in the world in terms of feature set, performance and quality. The company is privately held and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.