Visual D 0.50.0-beta3

Changes from 0.50.0-beta2:

• full installer: slightly improve dmd directory names
• updates:
  • fix link to dmd prerelease download
  • wrong frequency used for DMD
  • check DMD releases with prerelases, too
  • display HTML error
• mago
  • limit maximum number of elements for an array
  • fix expansion of struct members
• add option -lowmem

Visual D 0.50.0-beta2

Changes from beta1:

• check and report invalid non-empty DMD/LDC installation folders
• VC project:
  • DMD: fix wrong selections for bounds check options
  • LDC: added -mixin option
  • added enable -mixin option to autogenerate files according to the compilation model
  • new option for -extern-std=c++xx
• visualdproj:
  • Error List: classify warnings and deprecations according to the respective options
• bugzilla 19930: visualdproj: fix building projects with "&|<>" in directory names
• mago: fix conditional breakpoints "not supported"

Visual D 0.50.0-beta1

Changes:

• now another installer available that includes DMD and LDC
• installer no longer asks for DMD path when updating existing installation
• check for updates for Visual D, DMD and LDC, assisted download and install
• experimental highlight references to the same symbol as the one at the caret
• VS 16.1 Preview 2: ignore tracked files in *.delete.*.tlog as dependencies, too
• new VC projects now determine Windows SDK automatically
• VC project: "New item" now also allows adding D module
• dparser:
  • add semantic coloring for module and package names
• mago:
  • fixed width of hex display of negative values
  • dynamic type not shown for types that have no members (including interfaces)
  • dynamic type now displayed with the declared type (in braces)
  • determine dynamic type of C++ classes
  • demangle D symbol names
  • regression: use of registers in expression was lost at some point
  • show class and message for exceptions that the debugger breaks on

Visual D 0.49.2

Changes from 0.49.1:

• VS2013/VS2015: VC projects broken in 0.49.1 due to unsupported msbuild variable
• visualdproj: fixed additional options not passed to single file compilation
• VS2015: workaround VS not correctly updating extension caches after uninstallation
• bugzilla 19826: visualdproj projects created for LDC still use DMD

Visual D 0.49.1

Changes from 0.49.0:

• fixed reading settings from VC projects in VS2017
• fixed determining versions from dmd versions no longer supporting -gc
• fixed reading import path from newer LDC versions
• added support for VS2019 Update 16.1
• dparser:
  • jump to original definition if it is not renamed or the caret is on the import
  • fixed import lookup if module name is also a package
  • fixed stack overflows with static foreach
  • fixed infinite loop for cyclic base classes
  • fixed more crashes during semantic highlighting

Visual D 0.49.0

Changes from 0.49.0-beta1:

• bugzilla 19690: installer fails to register MSBuild extensions for Visual Studio Build Tools
• bugzilla 19726: VC project using LDC now adds C runtime to linker dependencies
• dparser: fixed crash with "static foreach"

Visual D 0.49.0-beta1

Changes:

• installation
  • prepare for VS2019: detect installation, build against VS 2019 SDK, Win SDK 10.0.17763.0
  • bugzilla 19690: installer fails to register MSBuild extensions for Visual Studio Build Tools
• build system
  • now parallel compilation supported by VC projects (thanks to Igor Cesi)
  • bugzilla 19558: now saves all files with single file compile (and run/debug/disassemble)
  • add support for recently added command line options -mixin
  • new "Language" configuration page for -betterC, -dipNN and -transition=/-preview=/-revert= options
  • visualdproj: remove support for D1 and ancient/removed options -nofloat and -property
  • visualdproj: replaced -noboundscheck option with -boundscheck=...
  • bugzilla 19558: save all files with compile and run/debug/disassemble
  • fix reading options from vcxproj with compile and run/debug/disassemble
  • bugzilla 19726: VC project using LDC now adds C runtime to linker dependencies
• dparser
  • catch up with recent language changes:
    • contract expressions
    • traits can appear everywhere a type can be declared
    • allow @UDA for enumerator values
  • parse __vector and __parameters in IsExpression, evaluate __vector
  • fix parsing character literals with surrogate pairs
  • fix tooltips showing storage classes as type constructors
• debugger
  • bugzilla 18889: do not forward tooltip to debugger if hovering compile time identifier (type/enum)
• editor
  • tweaked default colors to better work with dark mode (restart VS and Visual D twice after switch
    between light and dark modes)

Visual D 0.48.1

Changes from 0.48.0:

• dparser:
  • fix Issue 19411: increase stack size for DParserCOMServer
  • goto definition on alias: jump to base definition if caret on alias
• build system
  • fix Issue 19445: Linking to lib under "c:\Program Files (x86)" does not work in Visual D
• dustmite
  • fix copying project for dustmite with relative paths
  • move command line options to new setup page, add dustmite command line options
• cv2pdb
  • fix crash if mspdb*.dll cannot be loaded from path
  • emit "elemtype[keytype]" instead of "dAssocArray"
  • fix missing line numbers for new versions of mspdb (e.g. 14.16.27012/VS 15.9)
• mago: variables captured from stack of outer function not displayed in locals

Visual D 0.48.0

Changes from rc1:

• synchronize color categories between dparser and colorizer
• tweak colors for dark scheme
• fix crash with dub generated project
• add 'typeof' to completion where 'typeid' is valid, too

See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for a full list of changes from 0.47.0.

Visual D 0.48.0-rc1

Changes from beta3:

• build system
  • fixed linking privatephobos.lib if intermediate dir different from output dir
• mago
  • add option to disable strings to be expandable
  • support showing closure and capture variables as locals for dmd 2.084
• editor
  • added outlining for case statements
  • implemented commands View.PopBrowsContext and View.ForwardBrowseContext
  • reindent if multiple lines added by completion
  • tweaked formatting for enumerators, struct and array initializers
  • added option to not indent case statements
• dparser
  • 'virtual' no longer considered a keyword
  • updated list of traits for completion