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March 14, 2012

Active Query Builder .NET Edition 1.17 released.

We're glad to announce the new version of Active Query Builder .NET Edition. You can download the newest version or request the trial at the download page.

What's new in the Active Query Builder .NET Edition version 1.17?

• SQL Text Editor improvements:
  • SQL Text Editor and Expression Editor can be localized now using the QueryBuilder's Language property and its language files. The new strings to localize are added to the "en.xml".
  • The new Ctrl-Alt-Space shortcut is made to show the list of actual query objects only.
  • Text Find and Replace dialogs are made. Available shortcuts:

      Ctrl-F3  - Quick find the selected word or a word under cursor.
      F3       - Find next.
      Shift-F3 - Find previous.
      Ctrl-F   - Show Find Dialog.
      Ctrl-H   - Show Find and Replace Dialog.

  • The new ShowFindDialog and ShowFindAndReplaceDialog methods are added.
  • The ShowLineNumbers property is made.
  • The ReadOnly property is made.
  • Text drag and drop is implemened.
  • The ValidateContextMenu event is added to allow customization of context menus.
  The new events are added: PreProcessKey, PostProcessKey, PreProcessMouseDown, PreProcessMouseMove, PreProcessMouseUp.
• Expression Editor improvements:
  • Active sub-query object list is added.
  • Drag and drop of objects from lists to editor is made.
  • The new SQLBuilder property is added to define the query text formatter to format long expressions.
• General improvements:
  • The new properties were added for more customizable SQL query text formatting:
     PlainTextSQLBuilder.DynamicIndents: allows to indent the next item in the list to the same position as the first item;
     PlainTextSQLBuilder.DynamicRightMargin: instructs the component not to take into account leading spaces when counting line lenght to wrap;
     SQLBuilderFromClauseFormat: NewLineBeforeComma, NewLineAfterJoinExpression;
     SQLBuilderItemsListFormat (formats SELECT list, GROUP BY and ORDER BY items): NewLineBeforeComma.
  • The "+" button is added to the Union Navigation Bar to ease addition of new unions.
  • The double click on a field in a data source adds new item to the query columns list without marking it selected for output now.
  • Field alias is used now as tab caption for expression sub-queries that are used as fields in the parent query.
  • The new syntax provider for Microsoft SQL Azure databases is added. (MSSQLAzureSyntaxProvider)
  • Changing of the QuoteAllIdentifiers and ObjectPrefixSkipping properties does not clear the query any more.
  • QueryStatistics.OutputColumns[i].ColumnName is always unquoted now.
  • Performance optimizations are made.

Author: Sergey Smagin at ActiveDBSoft.

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