Visual D 0.48.0-beta2

Changes from beta1:

• installer and binaries now digitally signed by the "D Language Foundation"
• installer now removes old extension folders before installation
• predefined versions now evaluated by compiler invocation
• the last user specified version was prepended to "Windows"
• mago debug engine: the disassemble view now supports SSE4 and AVX
• dparser: fix stack overflow with "static foreach"
• dparser: some improvements to expression evaluation
• expression evaluation in tooltip not shown for "normal" error

Visual D 0.48.0-beta1

Changes:

• installation
  • fixed uninstallation for VS2017
  • installation for VS2013+ now uses PackageManifest format instead of Vsix
  • VS2017: loading the Visual D package could crash with some VS installation "ids""
  • avoid initial error message regarding altered assemblies with same version
  • fix installation of the D icon for the solution explorer in VS2017
  • installer hides options for VS2005-VS2012 if not installed
• new project wizard
  • restore project templates for VS2008, new project wizard doesn't work there'
  • mixed D/C++ VC project: optionally adding main in C++, setup precompiled headers
  • new VCProject: now uses $(LatestTargetPlatformVersion) as WindowsTargetPlatformVersion to
    avoid defaulting to Windows SDK 8.1
• settings
  • fix default library path if UCRT has different version than SDK
  • VS2017: D compiler installation paths and "demangle link errors" are now saved
    to "HKCR\Softwre\Visual D" to be picked up by msbuild
  • show detected compiler version below installation path
  • removed option "parse source for syntax errors", now always on
  • removed option "expansions from text buffer", now always off
  • removed option "use semantic analysis for goto definition", now always on
  • removed option "override linker settings from sc.ini", always on as linker no
    longer set in sc.ini since dmd 2.079
  • removed option "additional linker options", it was invisible anyway
  • rearrange settings to better show their scope
• dparser
  • semantic analysis did not work if "parse source for syntax errors" was disabled
  • no semantic info for a package if any file in the package has fatal parser error
  • now has semantic support for static foreach (thanks to Alexander Bothe)
  • fixed "Find references"
• mago
  • added option to show base class fields as direct fields
  • allow suffix 'h' for hex numbers for better interoperablility with VS disassembly
  • concord: can now show return values of functions stepped over (not slices or delegates
    on x64 or small non-POD-structs)
  • concord: fix crash when showing children in data tooltip (mostly occured in VS2017)
  • concord: allow dragging addresses to the disassembly window
  • engine: Fix the way the debugger steps over instructions with REP prefix.
• cv2pdb
  • can now detect VS2017 via Setup-COM-API
  • some DWARF fixes
• when pasting code to D source file newlines are adapted to surrounding code
• fixed "Compile and Run" on selection
• fix help via F1 for dmd 2.072+

Visual D 0.47.0

Changes from beta2:

• fix description text in ProjectWizard

Visual D 0.47.0-beta2

Changes from beta1:

• mago: fix pdb file not closed after debugging
• project wizard: always create "Debug" configuration for vcxproj, warn when not creating x86 platform
• fix installation of project wizard for VS2017

Visual D 0.47.0-beta1

Changes from 0.46.0:

• dparser
  • support 'do' instead of 'body'
• cv2pdb:
  • DWARF: several bug fixes and minor enhancements
  • can now convert DBG files alongside exe/dll
• build system
  • msbuild:
    • improved dependency handling for single/package file compilation (thanks to Igor Cesi)
    • LDC now assumed to be multilib installation, i.e. 64-bit lib folder is "lib64", not "lib"
    • Issue 18641: phobos/druntime libraries automatically added to link if any D file
      is compiled in the project or a dependent static library (without -betterC)
    • Issue 18640: settings now default to mago debug engine (avoiding deprecation warning)
    • to use LDC with in VS2017, set "InstallationFolder" in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\LDC
    • now demangles linker errors (if not disabled on global options page)
  • new project wizard for customizing generated projects, with only two types to select from
  • new icons for project templates based on vcxproj
  • support option -gf (emit debug information for referenced types)
• mago:
  • hex values now lower case for consistency with C++ debugger
  • no longer shows void pointers as expandable
  • show vtable of classes and interfaces as __vfptr (also allowed in watches, enable/disable
    on Tools->Options->Debugging-Mago page, not with LDC)
  • shows symbol names for pointers if found in image
  • pointers: also show value for pointee, remove additional indirection for complex types
  • support to call functions and delegates without arguments from watch window
    (dmd win64 only, no slice or delegate return values)
  • can now show the dynamic type of an interface
• miscellaneous
  • Issue 18622: removed outdated information regarding link definition when generated by Visual D DLL project.

Visual D 0.46.0

Changes from 0.46.0-beta1

• cv2pdb: allow converting larger binaries by marking it "large address aware"
• LDC: if -mtriple= or -march= is specified as additional option, don't emit -m32 or -m64
• built with 2.077 to support new symbol mangling
• fix detection of Windows 10 SDK, also define $(WindowsSdkVersion)
• VS2017: fixed registration of exception settings
• dparser: for syntax errors underline the full token, not only the first character
• required OS version for executables restored to 5.01 to support Windows XP
• mago: fix string display for LDC builds

Visual D 0.46.0-beta1

Changes since 0.45.1:

• cv2pdb
  • now also search VS2017 registry entries to find mspdb140.dll
  • fix working with the VS2017 update 15.3.1
• improve handling of non-ASCII installation paths:
  • use unicode aware version of NSIS, register through wide string API of rundll32
  • parse sc.ini with current code page
  • pipedmd: pass wide string command line to sub process
  • convert MS linker response file to UTF16
• build system
  • add workaround for broken TLS when linking with link.exe from VS2017 update 15.3.1
  • build single object file to intermediate directory rather than output folder
  • intermediate executable for cv2pdb now written to intermediate directory
  • custom build batch files now written to intermediate directory
  • use "if %errorlevel% neq 0" instead of "if errorlevel 1" in batches to capture crashes, too
  • fix default executable search path for LDC assuming a 64-bit compiler executable (avoids
    linker error -1073741701)
  • added *.tlog to default files to clean
  • add import library to project outputs if "create import library" enabled
  • added linker options to configure map file, import library and PDB file
  • LDC: add option to link against debug runtime library
  • LDC: no longer trIES to run cv2pdb
• dparser:
  • when building with LDC, use import path from its config file instead of DMDs' sc.ini
  • parse "static foreach" (but no semantic analysis)
• fixed spurious freeze in precise GC (mostly during startup)
• indentation of lambdas as parameter arguments now aligns statements on tab stops

Visual D 0.45.1

changes from rc2:

• "add import path of project dependencies": implicit import directories not passed to semantic analyzer
• tooltip for selective imports now show the aliased definition, not the alias
• improved tooltips: show full qualified name, show initializer for constants,
  better display for enum and aliases
• fixed completion or tooltips sometimes not working before modifying source code

Visual D 0.45.1-rc2

Changes from rc1:

• mago: fix displaying long strings as empty
• pipedmd: fix tracker invocation if the VS2015 version is found through PATH
• update vsi2d to Windows SDK 10.0.15063.0
• Visual D now buildable with VS2017

Visual D 0.45.1-rc1

Changes to 0.45:

• build against the MS VC runtime instead of DigitalMars runtime to avoid anti-virus programs complaining
• fix dependencies for custom build rules if file names contain spaces