Release Note 026: New Features released on January 7th 2013

1. OpenEdge Version compatibility note

2. New add-ons to the SmartComponent Library

3. Versions of the Consultingwerk .NET Assemblies contained in this release

4. List of new features / functionality

OpenEdge Version compatibility note

This release of the SmartComponent Library has been tested with OpenEdge 10.2B Service Packs 5, 6 and 7 as well as OpenEdge 11.0.0.003 and 11.1.0.005. If you are planning to use the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.0, please make sure to use at least the Hotfix 003 and Hotfix 5 for OpenEdge 11.1. See http://blog.consultingwerk.de/consultingwerkblog/2012/07/serious-issues-with-gui-for-net-type-management-in-openedge-11-1/ for some issues that prohibit the use of the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.1 without any hotfix. If you need support obtaining this service pack from Progress Technical Support please let us know!  

We are expecting the release of OpenEdge 11.2 later this month. We will provide a feedback on compatibility with OpenEdge 11.2 soon after the release of OpenEdge 11.2.  

From this release on we will be releasing multiple sets of source code for the different OpenEdge releases. We are always attempting to leverage the latest language and platform features from OpenEdge. For instance the Progress.Json.ObjectModel provides as an superior foundation for serializable objects that was not available in OpenEdge 10.2B. As OpenEdge 11 uses the .NET 4.0 framework, .resx files created with OpenEdge 11.x are no longer compatible with OpenEdge 10.2B as the type information (e.g. for System.Drawing.Image objects) references a strong name including the .NET Framework version.  

Customers using OpenEdge 10.2B and OpenEdge 11 may be using the OpenEdge 10.2B based shipment also on OpenEdge 11. However the OpenEdge 11 targeted deployment of the SmartComponent Library will not be compatible with OpenEdge 10.2B. We are also expecting a seperate deployment for OpenEdge 11.2 in the future to leverage new language features there as well.  

New add-ons to the SmartComponent Library

Recently we have developed two add-ons to the SmartComponent Library. Together with the framework extension for mobile device development (SmartComponent.Mobile) the SmartComponent Library can now also be used to develop WebSpeed applications (SmartComonents.Web) and provides a very tight integration with OpenEdge BPM/Savvion. Please contact us, when you are interested in exploring the capabilities of those add-ons.  

Versions of the Consultingwerk .NET Assemblies contained in this release

List of new features / functionality

Below is a list of the key features released today:  

• Change 23734 Fixed an issue with the ClassDocumentationHelper in OpenEdge 11.0 (not occuring in OpenEdge 11.1) by implementing a custom RIGHT-TRIM method  

• Change 23663 Integration of Language Images into Consultingwerk.Windows.Framework.Images  

• Change 23661 FindByKey method on ListNameValuePair  

• Change 23657 Fixed Invoke Method for Dialog in LaunchFormCallParameter  

• Change 23656 SmartFunctionViewer: Change in Call Parameter user Control should initiate Update  

• Change 23650 Enabling and Disabling of the Function Parameter UserControls in the SmartFunctionViewer  

• Change 23649 SmartViewerControl:RemoveControlEnabled now allows to remove Controls from the list of Controls that will be enabled/disabled from EnableFields/DisableFields  

• Change 23647 Fixed Deserialization of the FormStartTypeEnum in LaunchFormCallParameter class. Serializable Enum classes need to be fully qualified so that the DYNAMIC-NEW does not fail.  

• Change 23630 The SmartLookup no longer subscribes to it's own EditorButtonClick event, it rather overrides the OnEditorButtonClick method of the UltraTextEditor  

• Change 23615 ABL based http client  

• Change 23610 JsonSerialization optionally without specifying the SerializedType in the JsonObject  

• Change 23609 Basic OO Socket handling support  

• Change 23607 Changed LanguageImage fieldtype to CHARACTER and implemented storing of the relative FileName if possible  

• Change 23564 An utility to verify the validity of all .resx files in a workspace  

• Change 23560 FileAssert:Exist - verify that a file exists  

• Change 23520 Excel Export with the ability to fetch more data  

• Change 23479 Business Entity Designer with support for undocumented CASE-SENSITIVE attribute  

• Change 23459 on 2012/12/27 by mikefe@Consultingwerk7 Moved the simple Control ProperySheet from the BPM package to the Design Package  

• Change 23425 WinKit: IEmbeddedWindowForm:Finalized - new property to prefent multiple execution of FinalizeEmbedding.  

• Change 23418 on 2012/12/18 by mikefe@Consultingwerk7 Conditional inheritance from JsonSerializable on OpenEdge 11.0  

• Change 23413 Fixed JSon Deserialization when object properties are not presend in the serialization object  

• Change 23411 Use Strong-Typed class references for CallParameterControlFactory  

• Change 23389 Fixed Batching Issue when using the Filter Values Collection  

• Change 23388 Added System.DirectoryServices for Ldap support  

• Change 23385 Consultingwerk.Util.MathHelper  

• Change 23383 Consultingwerk.Windows.Ldap.UserAccountControl constant  

• Change 23367 ICredentialProvider to allow receiving authentication credentials from any other source than a classical user input  

• Change 23363 Business Entity Designer: Entity Class Generator Plugin generates now a sequence of properties for EXTENT fields  

• Change 23362 Excel Export as a standard UI functionality  

• Change 23356 White Background for the MenuTreeViewControl (UserControl itself)  

• Change 23354 Fixed the abilitiy to switch the Call Parameter User Controls, also when no valid Call Parameter was deserialized  

• Change 23344 Added a general RootNode and implemented the possibility to maintain the menu structure by using the Toolbar and Drag&Drop from the Function Maintenance Form.  

• Change 23341 Invoke Menu Function from MenuTreeViewControl  

• Change 23335 Basic Rendering of Menu Structure from SmartFramework, SmartFramework Maintenance Menu Group in Customer Explorer  

• Change 23332 Implemented a BaseControl for the CallParameter UserControls to define general behavior  

• Change 23330 SmartMenuMaintenanceForm: Resizing on Group Assignment Page  

• Change 23328 Business Entity Designer: Same code base for 10.2B and 11.x using conditional compilation  

• Change 23324 Classes in the Consultingwerk Root Package do use condidional compilation which allows us to support the same code base on 10.2B and OpenEdge 11.x  

• Change 23321 WidgetHelper:WidgetName method for debugging purposes  

• Change 23319 Fixed RefreshTools so that it won't change the label of tools in the Ribbon  

• Change 23318 Fixed OrderWidgets methods: First empty temp-table, then populate it.  

• Change 23315 EmbeddedWindowBaseForm:EnableDisableOverlayControl  

• Change 23312 Additional CreateTrigger for SmartDB tables  

• Change 23311 Assign ModuleName during Drag and drop  

• Change 23310 Drag and Drop of .cls files to the SmartFunctionMaintenanceForm to create a Function for a Form  

• Change 23305 XML ClassReference 

  • Generate static Methods 

  • Remove special characters 

  • Remove @ from return paramter  

• Change 23301 IEmbeddedWindowForm: A property which may hold the handles of all (relevant) FRAMEs in a Window  

• Change 23299 WidgetHelper:OrderWidgetsByColRow  

• Change 23284 RenderedBrowseControl: Optionally APPLY ITERATION-CHANGED event together with VALUE-CHANGED  

• Change 23280 RenderedBrowseControl: Monitor ENTRY of Updatable Browse Cells  

• Change 23268 RenderedBrowseControl: Synchronize the whole ROW between Browse widget and Grid when a cell is left  

• Change 23267 WinKit: RenderedBrowseControl: ProcedureHandle is optional now  

• Change 23264 Pick Event Support in Updatable RenderedBrowseControl (WinKit)  

• Change 23263 Consultingwerk.Windows.Api.Win32:GetWindowThreadProcessId  

• Change 23262 SmartTable Maintenance: Ability to import from a database schema  

• Change 23200 HTML Documentation fixed the following bugs 

  • SMARTDOX-3 Display GetFullTypeName as link 

  • SMARTDOX-4 Remove Commentlines / *--- --- */ 

  • SMARTDOX-2 GetFullTypeName does not appear 

  • SMARTDOX-5 Paramter headers conditionally hidden when not required 

  • Remove Interface Details 

  • Added interface reference link to class  

• Change 23199 Added FROM ASSEMBLY to the default class templates of the Business entity generator  

• Change 23195 Ability to "Quit" Background jobs through a 0MQ message rather than having to kill them. This is currently provided as a conceptual study, rather than a production ready solution. The use of 0MQ (ZeroMQ) is completely optional and can be turned on and off using a switch in Consultingwerk\products.i  

• Change 23186 Integration of the ZeroMQ Assemblies for the Background Jobs  

• Change 23185 Security Implementation: ServiceInterface Request validation via optional service provider  

• Change 23184 Maintenance programs for SmartAttachment tables  

• Change 23182 Fix Registration of DatasetChild Adapter with the DatasetController  

• Change 23178 Instantiate the DatasetController at runtime here, so that it's launched before any other Control performs initialization during the EndInit calls  

• Change 23174 RenderedBrowseControl with Support for adding the Browse fields and a custom list to the BindingSource (useful when the key fields of the records were not shown in the Browser)  

• Change 23173 Fixed the FieldNameGeneratorService2, it was adding the database name as part of the field name  

• Change 23172 Business Entity Designer: Alternative FieldNameGeneratorService. This one will ensure unique field names by adding a number to them: When using a joined DataSource between Customer and Order, one instance of the CustNum field will now be named CustNum2 etc.  

• Change 23171 SmartDataBrowser: Verify, that the BindingSource is already attached to a Query before performing the OnBeforeSortChange handling  

• Change 23167 ForeignFieldsProperty: Trim out spaces from the entries in the ForeignFieldProperty  

• Change 23163 Optimization to Fix for Bug 2837: The FindRowWhere on server does not also ensure the display of the Scrollbars without the need to generally use a large Prefetch value  

• Change 23151 ImageHelper:BuildTextImage  

• Change 23140 QueryExpression is now JsonSerializable  

• Change 23136 EmbeddedWindowTabFolderForm:DeleteTabPage  

• Change 23120 Fixed EU Settings in BPM Adapter  

• Change 23107 Workaround to crash starting the customization of the CustomerViewer on Page #2 in the CustomerDetailForm Change was to change baseclass from Consultingwerk.Forms.BaseForm to Progress.Windows.Form  

• Change 23079 SmartLookup: F3 Handler as On... method override  

• Change 23059 ParameterObject for WidgetHelper:SetFrameBackgroundColor  

• Change 23055 Consultingwerk.Util.DatasetHelper:SetErrorString  

• Change 23054 EntityClasses to support updating, Row state and ColumnChanged events  

• Change 23048 Provide the Authorization provider services with the reference of the Caller  

• Change 23040 Ensure that the Scrollbar is shown, when the FindRowWhere (FindOnServer) results in the rows beeing found being part of the last batch of records  

• Change 23038 Terminate all Background Jobs when the Job Monitor Control is closed  

• Change 23035 Consultingwerk.Util.XmlHelper  

• Change 23028 SmartBusinessEntityAdapter/SmartDataBrowser: Ensure that FetchLastOnServer scrolls to the Last Row  

• Change 23025 Ignore first error message from BPM Adapter (when we could not sign in the user with the application credentials to the BPM)  

• Change 23022 Business Entity Designer: When suggesting relation fields, prefer primary index fields  

• Change 23018 WebClient Support for Background jobs  

• Change 23009 SessionManager:LoginCompletedEvent  

• Change 23008 When logging in, but unable to log into the BPM Server, allow access anyway  

• Change 23005 Lookup templates  

• Change 22987 SmartDataBrowser: Fixed Backwards Batching when using the SmartFilterActive  

• Change 22949 Background Job Monitor  

• Change 22935 SmartDataBrowser: Changed the activation of the SmartFilterUI to the InitializeLayoutHandler. This change in the initialization order seems to be required in OpenEdge 11.0  

• Change 22927 SmartDataBrowser: Fixed filtering by Decimal column  

• Change 22913 CustomerExplorer Demo: Dashboard, Revenue by Country, executed in first prototype of the Background Job  

• Change 22912 ValueListHelper: Fixed issue with empty BLOB causing Exception when creating the .NET Image object  

• Change 22908 Customization Hook to handle Click of UltraButton overlaying ABL Button  

• Change 22903 RenderedBrowseControl: Synchronize value of updatable cell to the Browse widget before any ToolClick action in the Form  

• Change 22898 Handling of Function Keys on the RenderedBrowseControl  

• Change 22891 When the ABL Window handles the DEFAULT-ACTION event of a Browse widget, the RenderedBrowseControl will no longer APPLY MOUSE-SELECT-DBLCLICK to be consistent with the behaviour of the Progress Browse widget  

• Change 22888 Suspend Events from the RenderedBrowseControl once the Form has been disposed  

• Change 22862 Completion of SmartWindowWizard and SmartWindowGenerator  

• Change 22827 Custom ABL Scratch Pad  

• Change 22821 SmartWindowForm Wizard  

• Change 22817 WinKitMTK: Ignore Trigger reverts  

• Change 22814 Consultingwerk.Util.StringHelper:Insert  

• Change 22804 Error Handling in SmartViewerGenerator, when the Business Entity does not yet exist  

• Change 22801 UltraToolbarsHelper:LoadImage: Check for valid Image before CAST'in as the Image obeject of the Appearance may return the key from an ImageList  

• Change 22800 UltraToolbarsHelper, BuildToolbarFromFrame: When LoadImage returns FALSE, use TextOnly for Button Tool  

• Change 22798 Moved IControlGenerator Interface to Generator Package to be prepared for more generic use Rename/move file(s)  

• Change 22797 HTML Documentation  

  • - Overviev display modifier, Short-Signature and purpose  - Detailview Show formated paramter  

• Change 22796 Author Name and Generation Date/Time for files generated by the SmartViewerGenerator  

• Change 22795 AblPrimitiveLists now using LONGCHAR to store the internal values  

• Change 22784 XML-classReference  

  • - Replace All comment blankcharacters with    - All commentlines after line begins "---" not displayed  

• Change 22776 List & Label Report Designer integrated into Sports2000 Demo  

• Change 22765 XML Class-Reference  

  • - Methods output in xml  - Events output in xml  - Properties output in xml  - Constructors output in xml   All comments and parameter descriptions are displayed in classbrowser.  

• Change 22764 SmartViewerGenerator: Arrows on the Wizard Buttons  

• Change 22761 SmartViewerGenerator: Generation of special field controls per data type  

• Change 22759 Initial Implementation of SmartViewerBuilder  

• Change 22758 SmartViewer Wizard Validation of Next Button on Page 2 and Finish Button  

• Change 22757 SmartViewerGenerator Wizard - Management of BindingSource Columns / Viewer Fields  

• Change 22754 SmartViewerGenerator initial implementation  

• Change 22753 HTML-Documentation  

  • - remove msgbox when finish  - Bugfixing Placeholde method return the result value now. It was romeved in changeliste 2273.  - Docuementlist links changed form absolutly path to relative path  

• Change 22613 List & Label Support Library for Report Designer  

• Change 22601 Added comment to AssignSkipList assignement in the constructor  

• Change 22595 Business Entity Designer: Ability to drag individual fields from any table onto a Business Entity Temp Table  

• Change 22571 IFunctionCallParameter Interface that defines requirements for actions/functions started from the SmartMenuController and that can be stored (JSonSerialized) in the SmartFunction.FunctionCallParameter field  

• Change 22560 Consultingwerk.DateType class with routines for date calculation  

• Change 22559 DataTypeHelper:IsAblDataType is also accessible without the .NET framework  

• Change 22557 Consultingwerk.Util.DataTypeHelper:IsAblDataType: Test for valid ABL data type  

• Change 22551 Consultingwerk.DateHolder constructor with DateTime value  

• Change 22547 Added Consultingwerk.Int64Holder class  

• Change 22539 Consultingwerk.Util.FileHelper:RelativeFileName: Method that returns the relative name of a file based on the current propath  

• Change 22508 Consultingwerk.BufferFieldName is now JsonSerializable  

• Change 22507 IQueryExpression Interface for ...Holder classes to enforce GetExpression method  

• Change 22498 Added an assemblies.config file to be able to group assemblies in subfolders of the Assemblies directory.  

  • The current folderstructure now includes subfolders for:  Consultingwerk - Assemblies from Consultingwerk  Infragistics - Assemblies from Infragistics (initialy only contains an info.txt file as a placeholder for customer projects)  Microsoft - Assemblies from Microsoft Support - Assemblies from 3thrd Party vendors used in Consultingwerk developer tools  

    For detailed information about the assemblies.config file please refer to: http://communities.progress.com/pcom/message/161355#161355  

• Change 22497 BaseForm:RestoreWindowPosition is now a PROTECTED method to allow overriding  

• Change 22485 Holder classes for ABL primitive types  

• Change 22478 Renamed Consultingwerk.Character to Consultingwerk.CharacterType to avoid conflict with CHARACTER data type  

• Change 22430 Access to .NET Framework in the Consultingwerk.Framework folder using conditional compilation only (http://jira.consultingwerkcloud.com:8090/display/SCL/Release+Note+019%3A+Simplified+compilation+of+the+backend+on+Unix+and+Linux)  

• Change 22414 WinKit Toolbar & Ribbon Designer is now also part of the SmartComponent Library distribution  

• Change 22393 Cleanup WinKit Include Files  

• Change 22383 WinKit: Control Mdi/Non-Mdi through a static property in the EmbeddedWindowBaseForm  

• Change 22366 Only apply START-SEARCH when ALLOW-COLUMN-SEARCHING = TRUE .  

• Change 22339 Win32 API method DisableProcessWindowsGhosting  

• Change 22335 Additional INIT values specified for Lookup classes to avoid unneccessary apperance in generated code  

• Change 22323 Fixed resx file for OpenEdge 10.2B compatibility (WinForms 2.0)  

• Change 22312 Fix import of temp-tables with fields LIKE EXTENT fields  

• Change 22301 DataAccess: Ignore spaces in the comma delimited list of table-names  

• Change 22262 When storing UltraGrid settings, don't consider current GroupBy columns as Hidden  

• Change 22230 [Bug 2797] SmartDatasetChildAdapter - Clientsession dies when calling Bindingsource: RefreshAll () in RetrieveData Method  

• Change 22229 SmartDataObject Importer  

• Change 22227 SmartViewerGeneratorPlugin - create Icon in Business Entity Designer Ribbon