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AlterNET Extensibility Studio 5.0 - major release

A major release with installation improvements, Code Editor features, and TypeScript/JavaScript support.
4 June 2019

Main enhancements

  • Support for Visual Studio 2019 and distribution of individual libraries via NuGet packages.

  • TypeScript/JavaScript support for Form Designer.

  • New Search/Replace docked dialog and Code Completion searching and filtering enhancements for Code Editor.

Below is a full list of changes in this release:

Code Editor

+ Appearance of Search/Replace dialog boxes matches the latest Visual Studio.

+ Improved search highlighting for Code Completion Listbox.

+ Category Filtering added to Code Completion Listbox. +Adde Support for .NET 4.6 / Roslyn 2.10, allowing using C# 7 features (available via NuGet)

+ Dark color theme is now supported (via Customize quick start project).

+ Types and reserved words are highlighted in Quick Info tips.

- Fixed a few issues related to the multiple-documents search.

- Fixed bug with not showing localized descriptions in Code Completion windows.

- Fixed bug with disposing Code Editor in split mode.

- Fixed bug with caret misalignment in WPF Code Editor

Scripter/Debugger

+ Improved look and feel of Debugger UI widgets

- Issue with expression evaluation during debugging when the mouse pointer is over commented text.

Form Designer

+ Custom menu actions for Windows Forms Designer controls are now supported.

+ Property filtering is now available for the Windows Forms Designer toolbox.

- Fixed bug related to adding duplicate items and tabs to the Form Designer toolbox.

- Fixed bug with dragging the same control multiple files to WPF Form Designer.

- Fixed bug with disabled popup menus for WPF Form Designer.

- Fixed bug with Form Designer toolbox appearance when the large font is used.

- Fixed bug with the serialization of special characters like < and > in WPF Form Designer.

Installation

+ Added support for Visual Studio 2019.

+ Component libraries are distributed via NuGet packages.

+ Design- time extensions can now be configured for individual versions of Visual Studio.

TypeScript

+ Typedef definition files for .NET assemblies (clr.d.ts) are generated on the fly based on host configuration.

+ Windows Forms Designer now supports saving/loading content to TypeScript/JavaScript files.

+ Added demo projects for WPF.

- Fixed issues with incorrect code completion for .NET types.