These are the notes on what changed in the last few builds. They have all been internal builds, or limited release builds for testing specific issues from customers. I fully expect that we may see a few new issues pop up once we get this into a much larger base of users than our testing crowd. As always...

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3.4 Release Status I just wanted to take a moment to let everyone in the community know about the hold up of the release for 3.4. We had a trusted partner report a concern with Build 64. It turned out to be a change in behavior of the engine from 3.3 that we did on purpose, but it had a larger impact...

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Build #64, 09/16/2008 NOTES VistaDB.NET20.Web.dll (NEW) The membership, and role providers have been rewritten. And we have a new profile provider as well. The new versions are able to be used within the ASP.NET Configuration Wizard for websites. You can edit roles and users using the configuration wizard...

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Build #63, 7/18/2008 NOTES We now have over 600 NUnit tests! New tests are being added for SQL code syntax comparing to SQL CE and SQL Server. Not all syntax will be added, but there are some changes on the way for sure. The Data Migration Wizard has been changed to allow it to run on 64 bit Vista. Simple...

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Build #61, 06/11/2008 NOTES This is still using the old setup. Mostly because we needed to get a corrected version that uninstalled things correctly. The current 3.4 uninstaller will leave things in the registry (bad). This new setup will clean those up upon uninstall correctly. Planning to replace the...

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Build 60 is up on the site for download now as a beta developer build for all subscribers. Build 59 was a special test build not released publicly. As we prepare to make some more low level engine changes we felt this was a good time to release another development build. The source edition has also been...

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Build #57, 4/17/2008 NOTES Promotion from development to stable. This version has been tested by quite a few users and all reported issues have been resolved. There are some small performance improvements in this build, and we continue to work on optimization of the engine. When we promote from development...

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Build #56, 4/13/2008 NOTES This build is being built with a number of new tools on our end. It should not impact anything in the product (we hope), but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. Visual Studio Integration SDK (VSIP) - Now using the latest build from last year that includes some new tools and...

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Build #55, 03/20/2008 NOTES There is work being done on the drag and drop binding in Visual Studio for stored procs, this work is not yet complete. NUnit 2.4.6 is used to build these tests (may be required now due to new Asserts being used). ISSUES AND FIXES #443: Query with negative numbers in list...

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Build #52, 1/26/2008 NOTES This is a development build - the CF build has not been tested at all. NOTE: Only current subscribers have access to the development builds. A source edition for this build has been published as well. ISSUES AND FIXES #387: Alter procedure generates one if it does not exist...

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Build #50, 10/JAN/2007

NOTES

Compact Framework DLL was missing a manifest reference in Build 49 this has been fixed. 

We are also trying to get the NUnitLite framework running under Compact Framework for us to perform NUnit tests here as well.

Minor DDA API Corrections:

The IVistaDBTable had a TemporaryIndexes ability without loading the table schema, but you could not do the same for normal indexes. 

We added a RegularIndexes property now so you can also check for the existence of a regular index without having to load the table schema object

. PutFromFile had some corrections to it for datatypes.  The only valid datatypes are NChar and VarBinary base types (Image is a varbinary internally), other types throw an exception.
GetToFile is new for writing a blob (IMAGE/VARBINARY) field to a file directly on disk rather than getting the array in memory.

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Build #48, 12/21/2007 NOTES This is going to be considered 3.3 release candidate. It is our policy to not make API changes without a dot release increment. The WHILE keyword was not implemented, but we wanted to add it. So either we add to add it now, or wait until the 3.4 release. We decided to add...

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Build #47, 12/14/2007 NOTES TEMP Table Support - 2 types of temp tables CREATE #temptable - lives through lifetime of connection DECLARE @temptable TABLE - lives in scope of the query, syntax is used for stored procs and UDFs. Change in stored proc variables Variable scope within BEGIN/END block. Variables...

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Build #45, 11/26/2007 NOTES The new trial license is almost complete. It is now generated on the client machine, and then sent to the server to be signed with our private key. The trial license is then validated on the client using our public key (embedded in the engine). Since the assemblies are all...

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* * * * * * * * Build #44, 11/16/2007 * * * * * * * * BETA 3.3 - First Release of TSQL Proc Support BETA means BETA - Not meant for production usage yet. ***** NOTES ***** Please do not attempt to use ORMs like EntitySpaces and then complain to the vendor. Please realize that they are getting this beta...

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Build 41 - Stable We are going to release this as a stable build. Most of the changes made are for compliance with TSQL parsing, and only a few bug fixes. None of the bug fixes are considered to be risky and this version has been more heavily tested internally than any previous release. 400+ NUnit tests...

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* * * * * * * * Build #33, 7/30/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** **************** ISSUES AND FIXES **************** Bug #187: Help file udpate to use Sandcastle. New CHM file included and shortcuts updated. Bug #39: FilterRowCount property is missing - ScopeKeyCount has been added to show the number...

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* * * * * * * * Build #32, 7/16/2007 * * * * * * * * ***** NOTES ***** We have updated our NUnit to now use version 2.4.1 and the NUnit examples now assume the default path. The older NUnits should continue to work. NUnit release notes **************** ISSUES AND FIXES **************** Bug #165: Find...

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We have released Stable Build 30! This has been a long road of changes since Build 25. We are very pleased with the current round of opmizations. * * * * * * * * Build # 30, 6/26/2007 * * * * * * * * This is a stable build - a new trial download will be issued for this as well. To see all the changes...

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