FinalBuilder V6.3 released

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 V6.3

FinalBuilder Core

• Feature - Back ported improvements to pretty xml formatter from mainline branch
• Bug - Fixed & escaping issue.
• Bug - Fixed stepping bug with nested Try/Finally blocks where an exception occurs in the first block before the nested Try
• Bug - Output captured from stdout was throwing away tabs
• Bug - Stop messages posted by a monitor from being processed by the monitor. Also make AllMatchesToVariable, LastMatchToVariable and MatchCount to variable work as designed
• Bug - Upgrading FB4 project file to FB6 would cause the global scripts to be lost.

FinalBuilder IDE

• Bug - Fix for variable completion replacing text after variable
• Bug - Fixed av when moving group nodes in Variables Dialog
• Bug - Fixed crash with action running frame when running parallel actions
• Bug - Fixed hang in Variables Dialog when editing group name
• Bug - Save dialog will now default to the projects directory when saving a new project

Actions

• Feature - Accurev - Added Login/Logout actions
• Feature - Write To Text File Action - Added Expand Variables option
• Feature - Added option to read 64 - bit registry keys
• Feature - Added Pretty Format XML option to Save XML Document Action
• Feature - Added Stack/Queue Contains Action
• Feature - Added support for building RIDL files included in Delphi 2009 projects
• Feature - Added support for Delphi 2010 to borland resource compiler action.
• Feature - Added support for Help and Manual 5.3
• Feature - Added support for InstallShield 2010
• Feature - Added TriggerFiles Iterator Action
• Feature - ADO Iterator - Added option of specify a value when the data value is null
• Feature - Delete Registry Key/Valuie - Recursive option added to delete all child keys and values.
• Feature - FxCop - Added Culture and Ignore Generated Code switch.
• Feature - MSTest - Added support for publishing MSTest results to FinalBuilder Server
• Feature - nUnit - Added the 'No Thread' switch
• Feature - TFS Create Workspace - Added option to ignore failure when directory already exists
• Feature - TFS Delete Workspace - Added option to ignore failure when directory does not exist
• Feature - UPX - Added --brute and --ultra - brute command line options to action
• Feature - VS.Net Solution - Added two script properties to get compiler warning and error count.
• Feature - Read XML Action - Enhanced to allow using comment and attributes node types
• Change - Create Website Action - Added additional error message when locating next free web site index
• Change - MultiQuestion Action - Changed Variable Combo dropdown width
• Change - Ping Example (Script) - Updated action to use the Execute Program action type
• Change - Send Email - Added message - id email header.
• Change - Subversion Info Action - Changed action to parse XML instead of plain text to allow for non - english locales
• Change - Team Foundation Get - Workspace directory is automatically created if it doesn't already exist.
• Change - Updated actions to be compatible with MKS 2007
• Change - Windows Installer - Fixed error reporting of the Windows Installer actions.
• Change - WinRAR - Changed option depending on which version of WinRAR is installed
• Bug - Added dummy logger when verbosity is set to quiet to work around MSBuild NullReference bug.
• Bug - ADO Dataset Iterator - Fixed numeric column types causing errors.
• Bug - Beyond Compare - Action would fail if the files were the same and 'Fail if Similiar' was checked regardless of whether 'Fail if Match' was checked or not.
• Bug - Create ISO - Show hidden files was always enabled when browsing for files
• Bug - XML Iterator Action - Enhanced XPath generation for resulting nodes
• Bug - Extract Version Info - Fixed Edit dialog not showing correct text when editing
• Bug - Visual Studio .NET Action - Fixed assembly info issue with Delphi Prisim projects
• Bug - Visual Studio .NET Action - Fixed AssemblyFileVersion Revision not auto incrementing correctly
• Bug - Delphi Action - Fixed bug in ReloadPackageList script method
• Bug - Send Email Action - Fixed bug where missing attachment would cause body to be encode incorrectly
• Bug - FxCop Action - Fixed command line option /aXsl was missing forward slash
• Bug - FXCop Action - Improved Error handling so that exceptions are handled properly
• Bug - IniFile Iterator Action - Fixed not iterating all sections on large Ini Files
• Bug - AssemblyInfoUpdater Action - Fixed issue with adding attributes in .cpp files
• Bug - AssemblyInfoUpdater Action - Fixed issue with extra colon when adding missing attributes
• Bug - AssemblyInfoUpdater Action - Fixed bug where colon was removed from attributes
• Bug - AssemblyInfoUpdater Action - Fixed issue with missing ] when value quoted with single quotes
• Bug - AssemblyInfoUpdater Action - Fixed issue with module attributes
• Bug - Create XML Node Action - Fixed issue with empty namespace attributes
• Bug - Fixed WinRAR Options script object registration breaks CVS Options script object
• Bug - FTP Download File - Action no longer created the local file when the remote file does not exist.
• Bug - Save XML Document - Application would crash when the XML Document did not exist.
• Bug - SFTP List Files - Fixed Log Variables to Variable combo box not being persisted when closing action properties
• Bug - Source Safe - User credentials were not being escaped
• Bug - Vault Get - Removed trailing path delimiter on working directory argument
• Bug - VMWare Server - Removed empty - H parameter when connecting to the localhost.
• Bug - Windows Installer - Install - Fixed action so that it doesn't fail if the file doesn't exist locally when remotely installing on another machine
• Bug - WinRAR - Added command argument to force encoding to be ANSI

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