Fixes

• Intellisense documentation not available for a few PostSharp.Patterns libraries.

Features

• Contracts: expose method to return formatting arguments.

Fixes

• VSX: Editing project build properties is not reflected in aspect explorer.
• VSX: Deadlock in CpsProjectAccessor when creating a new project.
• VSX: postsharp.config item template is named postsharp1.config in CPS projects by default.
• Debugger: NullReferenceException in DebuggerTrace.Message() method causes VS to crash and restart.
• VSX: Adding a postsharp.config using project context menu makes VS to crash and restart.
• VSX: Aspects not detected in multitargeted projects.
• VSX: Code Action options: description should be TextBlock, not TextBox.
• VSX: Inconsistencies in QuickInfo popup.
• VSX: NotifyPropertyChanged: no tooltip on "get" keyword for expression-bodied properties.

Features

• Distribution: optimize Tools unzipper size.

Fixes

• Aspect Framework: SemanticallyAdvisableMethodKinds.All didn't include awaitable methods.
  (Breaking Change: Previously, SemanticallyAdvisableMethodKinds.All incorrectly didn't include non-async method that return a Task.

Features

• VSX: Added an option to suppress "lines of codes saved" messages from tooltips.

Fixes

• VSX: Random ArgumentNullException during adornments creation in VS 2017.
• Debugger Diagnostic output window pane is created but is empty.
• Weaver lookup in NuGet repository fails on case-sensitive file systems.
• Linux/MacOS: UNIX paths are incorrectly read from and written into Portable PDB.

Features

• VSX: Use XML name table to parse pssym files.
• VSX: Log to text file instead of output window.
• VSX: Support for multitargeting.
• VSX: Support for Shared Projects.
• VSX: support for per-monitor awareness of DPI.
• VSX: Generalize the use of async methods.
• Support for Deterministic build.
• VSX: Support for Shared Projects - QuickInfo.
• Aspect Explorer: rewrite with WPF and performance optimization.
• Linux/MacOS: Divide ProgramData into appropriate system folders.
• Unify temp folder path.

Fixes

• Threading models: exception when the constructor of the base class calls an overridden async virtual method and the base class does not have a threading model.
• VSX: Word is cut off in PostSharp Options dialog.
• VSX: Adding solution-level PostSharp policy while having a .pssln file present throws ArgumentException.
• VSX: Evaluated value of PostSharpSearchPath is stored in the project file even when the value was not edited.
• VSX: Various exceptions in DocumentTable.
• Local constants of DateTime type are not handled by the Windows PDB reader/writer.
• Platform: mscoree.dll:CLRCreateInterface should not be required on Windows.
• Aggregatable: NotSupportedException was thrown when adding a child to a collection of a parent, if that parent is held in a readonly field.
• Error and warning messages couldn't be placed on an explicitly implemented interface method.
• Multicasting: Raise a build warning when AttributeTargetAssemblies is set and attribute is not applied on the assembly level.

Fixes

• Build-time exception when OnBoundary is ordered before Interception on an unsupported async method.
• BuildClient: BuildToolsHelper is trying to run dotnet unzipper.exe (MSBuild + .NET Core project).

Fixes

• Build on Linux/MacOs.
• Filtering with MulticastAttributes.CompilerGenerated doesn't filter out user-created declarations.

Features

• Add the StrictRangeAttribute contract.
• Contracts - Ability to customize exception types.

Fixes

• Introduce CacheInvalidation aspect role for InvalidateCacheAttribute.

Fixes

• Add the SHA256 signature of Portable PDBs to DLLs.

Features

• Support for state machines in location validation transformation.
• Free ordering of OnMethodBoundary aspects without OnYield/OnResume advices.