DevPartner V9.1 editions released

DevPartner Studio is a suite of software development and testing tools that enable Windows application teams to build reliable, high-performance applications, components and web services for Microsoft .NET and native Windows platforms. DevPartner Studio automatically detects and diagnoses software defects and performance problems early in the development process as cost-effectively as possible, providing built-in expert coding advice, coding standards and best practices to improve development skills and ensure software reliability and performance. DevPartner Studio enhances Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System with advanced capabilities that allow development organizations to improve software quality, adopt coding standards and best practices, and maximize developer productivity. The following editions are available:

• DevPartner Studio Professional Edition, Named Users
• DevPartner Studio Professional Edition, Concurrent Users

DevPartner for Visual C++ BoundsChecker Suite helps developers to quickly and easily locate errors in application source code and at runtime, locate performance issues and measure the level of testing accomplished, for any combination of Visual Studio .NET and native Windows code, and across physically distributed systems. The following editions are available:

• DevPartner for Visual C++ BoundsChecker Suite - Visual Studio Edition, Named Users
• DevPartner for Visual C++ BoundsChecker Suite - Visual Studio Edition, Concurrent Users

Updates in V9.1

• Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Explorer 8 Support
  DevPartner 9.1.0 runs on both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. All existing DevPartner product capabilities from installation, operation, documentation, and integration with Visual Studio and other systems remain intact with these Windows operating systems. DevPartner also supports Internet Explorer 8 under these operating systems with limitations. See the item "Web Script Coverage and Performance Yield Incomplete Results on Internet Explorer 8.0" in the DevPartner 9.1.0 Known Issues for more information.
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Support
  DevPartner 9.1.0 provides full analysis capability for ASP.NET applications and services hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5. Full DevPartner Support for IIS is across all supported DevPartner operating system platforms, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Project Selection in Code Review Batch Mode
  With previous releases of DevPartner, all projects in a solution were reviewed when running Code Review using CRBatch from the command line. DevPartner release 9.1.0 lets you select specific projects to be reviewed. To do this, follow the /l parameter in the CRBatch command with the name of an XML file that contains a list of specified projects. DevPartner generates the XML file based on projects selected for the solution in the Code Review options. Specifying individual projects within a solution for code review frees you from Visual Studio IDE dependence when you only want to process portions of a solution for code review. Running code review on selected projects in batch mode also gives you the flexibility to tailor code reviews on large solutions to only the desired areas of code. This can help shorten code review batch runs and streamline overnight code review batch processing.
• Experimental Support for Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition (EE) COBOL for .NET Projects
  DevPartner now allows you to analyze Micro Focus Studio EE COBOL for .NET project types. This includes memory analysis, performance analysis, coverage analysis for managed COBOL for .NET projects. In-depth performance for COBOL for .NET projects can be done where standard disk I/O, network and other Microsoft standard .NET calls are used. Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition must be installed on the same computer as Visual Studio to enable the Micro Focus Studio EE COBOL for .NET project type for analysis. Support is limited to experimental usage in this release, and no Code Review or native COBOL support is provided. DevPartner customers who wish to provide feedback on this capability should identify themselves through the Micro Focus SupportLine Customer Care web site.
• Compile, Instrument Unmanaged Code, Set Environments, and Build from the Command Line
  With DevPartner 9.1.0, a single command lets you compile, instrument unmanaged code in a project or solution, and build the project or solution from the command line. The NMDEVENV command combines the code instrumentation and compile capability of the DevPartner NMCL command with build capability of the Visual Studio DEVENV command. NMDEVENV replaces the Visual Studio DEVENV command and gives you the flexibility to instrument, compile, and build solutions in batch processing and from the command line without multiple commands. NMDEVENV uses Visual Studio instrumentation options set for the project or solution being instrumented and built, ending the need to enter instrumentation options in command syntax.

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise and more than 15,000 customers including more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies and one million licensed users. Compuware and Micro Focus recently signed an agreement for Micro Focus to acquire the Compuware Quality Solutions product line.