FinalBuilder 8 adds new IDE Themes and Debugging Functionality

FinalBuilder is an automated build and release management solution for Windows software developers and SCM (Software Change Management) professionals. Use FinalBuilder to define, debug, maintain, run and schedule reliable and repeatable build processes. Software projects are inherently complex, and creating a build process can be fraught with errors and oversights. FinalBuilder is an automated build and release management tool that makes it easy to define and maintain a reliable and repeatable build process.

Updates in 8

• IDE Themes - The IDE has two new themes, Dark and Light.
• Step Into Included Projects - You can now step into included projects, if it is not already opened, the IDE will open the project and switch to it automatically. To make this possible, there are now "Step Into" and "Step Over" functions. The Step into/over now also applies to targets.
• Debugger breakpoints now have conditions.
• Actionlists renamed to Targets - Targets can now also define dependencies, so you can for example define Clean, Build, Test, and have Test depend on Build.
• Run Target Action - You can now return values from Targets (ie out parameters) .
• Core Messaging - Changes to the messaging has improved the performance of the stepping engine and logging, with much less thread switching.
• Lower Runtime Memory - Reduced memory usage during a build compared to FB7.
• FBCmd - The command line parameters have changed to be more consistent and easier to specify.
• New Project File Formats:
  • A new DSL style project file format (.fbp8) is now the default format, it is very easy to diff.
  • A new xml format (.fbx8), much less verbose than the old format.
  • Compressed project files (.fbz8) use the dsl format internally.
  • The default project file encoding is now UTF-8, which is more version control friendly.
• New Actions - Includes new actions for Chocolatey, Bower, NPM, Gulp, Grunt, Rake, Fake, Mocha, along with Redgate SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare actions.
• TFS 2015 XAML builds are also supported.

About VSoft Technologies

VSoft Technologies is passionate about software - especially about creating something that is easy to use, very powerful, and which our customers just love. The company has been in business since 1996, and in that time has developed two great automation products based on the same proven technology. If you are a software developer, FinalBuilder will help you get that product onto the market by automating your build processes. For other IT Professionals, Automise can free you from repetitive tasks and make them faster and more reliable through the power of visual Windows automation.