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ChangeLog - MDriven Designer

December 2024

• Revision 16238 (Modified on 2024-12-16): Changed wiki to learn in links to learn.mdriven.net Changed OclOperatator_<op> links to Documentation:OclOperatator_<op>
• Revision 16237 (Modified on 2024-12-16): New UI operation on placingContainer: Child items to Columnar-Layout - this will quickly put UI in the normal pattern of Expanding tables at the bottom - and simple editors distributed evenly in Columnar layout at the top
• Revision 16235 (Modified on 2024-12-15): Several issues stopped StyleInModel-live changes to successfully render in LiveEdit Fast-access model upload button (Synk.Server) added to LiveEdit
• Revision 16209 (Modified on 2024-12-04): MergeModel did not correctly merge StylesInModel - fixed
• Revision 16208 (Modified on 2024-12-04): Issue with Save in modlr closing windows - fixed
• Revision 16207 (Modified on 2024-12-04): ...
• Revision 16205 (Modified on 2024-12-03): Issue with Modlr-saveAs not moving along the AssetsTK fixed (it did include the assetstk in the zip - but it got overwritten on first new save, assetstk is only expanded when file is open. Modlr now does SaveAs+Re-Open)
• Revision 16204 (Modified on 2024-12-03): When Merging models via live edits TKCoreAssetsSynkUC we now also merge the .PrototypeData.xml, we also avoid to merge singletons for classes that already are in the target system
• Revision 16202 (Modified on 2024-12-02): Diagrams can now be marked as Stable, default is dynamic. A stable diagram does not get new properties if the class is given any outside of this diagram context. Also - Hide properties and methods has been re-worked together with all "re-introduce" functionality available to get removed associations back into this diagram - all of this is now consistently handled with a Class-auto-diagram in the re-introduce-menu , and artifacts (methods, attributes, associations, specializations, generalisations) are controlled with checkboxes added to the AutoForm
• Revision 16199 (Modified on 2024-12-02): Removed app.config, not needing and stopped build server
• Revision 16198 (Modified on 2024-12-02): Removed app.config, not needing and stopped build server

November 2024

• Revision 16194 (Modified on 2024-11-30): Issues with signalR from DevEnv
• Revision 16193 (Modified on 2024-11-30): Fixed problem with server failing at startup if CodeDress folder contains dll's without image metadata. For example native (not managed) dll as libSkia
• Revision 16191 (Modified on 2024-11-30): Changes for the new build bootstrapper
• Revision 16163 (Modified on 2024-11-19): Several issues discovered with non-core TK and MDR regarding signalr - stuff that we already knew but had forgotten about : SignalR for ASP.NET is NOT compatible with SignalR for ASP.NET.Core - this takes us on a long journey that results in us not being able to use mdriven.net.http.netstandard in non core builds but instead mdriven.net.http , this is a bummer for many reasons and probably something that will make us deprecate the None core builds soon
• Revision 16159 (Modified on 2024-11-19): Issue with Index out of range on new PC color function. Sped up right-click by removing un-needed DisplayAll
• Revision 16158 (Modified on 2024-11-18): PlacingContainerColors in ViewModel tree and WPF PC-Arrows + CodeGen on ExtendedModelLayer
• Revision 16157 (Modified on 2024-11-18): SignalR version confusion after consolidation to netStandard - fixed
• Revision 16154 (Modified on 2024-11-15): SQLite 1.0.119
• Revision 16152 (Modified on 2024-11-14): ...
• Revision 16151 (Modified on 2024-11-14): ...
• Revision 16149 (Modified on 2024-11-14): VSIX and Designer changed to use netstandard builds of all persistencemappers "Npgsql" version="7.0.6" -> 8.0.5
• Revision 16143 (Modified on 2024-11-13): Action resize window issue
• Revision 16142 (Modified on 2024-11-13): Minor issues
• Revision 16141 (Modified on 2024-11-13): ...
• Revision 16139 (Modified on 2024-11-12): WinForms designer open/close/save
• Revision 16138 (Modified on 2024-11-12): WebView2 EnsureCoreWebView2Async sometimes complains - not sure why - but catch it and ignore it Some WinForms design time complaints from VS2022 - opened forms to resave them mostly helps
• Revision 16136 (Modified on 2024-11-11): The Debugger UI for ViewModel is now applying the styles in model
• Revision 16134 (Modified on 2024-11-11): Issue in ActionDialog expanding beyond screen when long values - fixed RendersActions-columns should be IsStatic for all -except for checkboxes

October 2024

• Revision 16132 (Modified on 2024-10-31): Now also sends action updates in LiveEdit Trying to mitigate the WebView issue that pops up from time to time by having unique folders for LiveView,CloudForm and StartUC - GetFolderForWebViewSafe
• Revision 16110 (Modified on 2024-10-29): ...
• Revision 16108 (Modified on 2024-10-29): Major changes to allow for DesignTimeSupport of WinForms for .net6+ components. MDriven relies on types defined in the solution, not necessarily in the same project and not in the same form. The .net6+ designtime support make use of an out of process designer called DesignerHost - and we must serialize and send components information and type information across this barrier - this required serious re-design and understanding. From this release NOTHING needs or should be in the GAC!!!! For winforms designer code AddRange(IColumn[]... should be replaced with AddRange(AbstractColumn[]...
• Revision 16107 (Modified on 2024-10-26): Designer: CloudDialog - Changes button - if changes detected offers to download the two checksum datablocks to 2 files for further analysis if needed
• Revision 16093 (Modified on 2024-10-22): MDrivenServer now has a TwoFactorCodeCheck for Upload model that can be turned on - this is to better protect production databases from mistakes... MDrivenDesigner has a new box to give the 2 factor code for the server. Designer has dropped the Upload ServerSide-jobs since this is automatic from months back...
• Revision 16088 (Modified on 2024-10-21): Fix to avoid problem when having nullable null in AccessGroup expressions
• Revision 16086 (Modified on 2024-10-17): Improved "Copy to clipboard for diagram" to a better message
• Revision 16080 (Modified on 2024-10-16): ...
• Revision 16079 (Modified on 2024-10-16): ...
• Revision 16078 (Modified on 2024-10-16): Unless the nugets target .net6.0 specifically - and only netstandard2.0 they will not show up in the toolbox upon nuget install - fixed
• Revision 16072 (Modified on 2024-10-15): Picklists without NullRep - that are null - but has more than zero options - and target attribute is not persistent, should be initiated to first
• Revision 16067 (Modified on 2024-10-14): Pulled back net48 to net472 in order to better reach the goal to work with VS2022 designtime Minor nuget package upgrades and consolidations
• Revision 16064 (Modified on 2024-10-11): Path.DirectorySeparatorChar was missed at some places - breaking linux
• Revision 16043 (Modified on 2024-10-09): Updating Microsoft.Data.SqlClient from version="5.1.4" to version="5.2.2"
• Revision 16041 (Modified on 2024-10-09):
• Revision 16034 (Modified on 2024-10-08): Updates to about boxes to fix for GAC issues
• Revision 16028 (Modified on 2024-10-07): New strategy to fix the VS GAC Need LocalizableCategory and LocalizableDescription crashed new VS - fixed GAccing on post build removed for all but interfaces and handles
• Revision 16024 (Modified on 2024-10-06):
• Revision 16018 (Modified on 2024-10-05):
• Revision 16017 (Modified on 2024-10-05):
• Revision 16016 (Modified on 2024-10-05):
• Revision 16015 (Modified on 2024-10-05): Old Winform ContextMenu rewritten to newer ContextMenuStrip to even out differences for .net6 XAML namespaces - attempts to even out differences stemming from different named assemblies NOTFRAMEWORK conditional define to signal that this is Not MDrivenDesigner/VS2022Extension that runs Framework ModlrTree search rewritten to even out differences with .net6 that does not have asyncdelegates
• Revision 16011 (Modified on 2024-10-04): ..
• Revision 16009 (Modified on 2024-10-04): ...
• Revision 16006 (Modified on 2024-10-04): ...
• Revision 16004 (Modified on 2024-10-04): MDriven 72 - switch to netstandard: https://wiki.mdriven.net/index.php?title=MDriven_72 , work in progress
• Revision 16003 (Modified on 2024-10-04): Issue in WPF leftside actions that could get into never-ending slow but unblocking enable loop due to too wide subscription - was repeatable by using temp list creating ocl operators in enable expressions like ->exists, ->size etc. Fixed by precision subscription per action
• Revision 16002 (Modified on 2024-10-04): New turnkey setting https://wiki.mdriven.net/Documentation:TurnkeySettings AttackBreakThreshold
• Revision 16001 (Modified on 2024-10-03): MDriven VSIX Moving towards .net8
• Revision 16000 (Modified on 2024-10-03): MDriven VSIX Moving towards .net8

September 2024

• Revision 15969 (Modified on 2024-09-25): The FrameworkAction-option BackwardsNav has been added. In MVC, AngularJS and Blazor it nows asks the browser to go back in history 1 step. The primary use-case for this was the ability to put a "Resume" button on the Timedout page,
• Revision 15957 (Modified on 2024-09-20): Moving the WebView2 temp files dir to SpecialFolder.CommonDocuments in hope to avoid issues when running like 2 users Adding extra style keepopen to the new saveandkeepopen save button (GlobalReadOnlyModeUseSaveAndLock setting)
• Revision 15948 (Modified on 2024-09-17): Issue in WPF could give "Specified index is out of range or child at index is null. Do not call this method if VisualChildrenCount returns zero, indicating that the Visual has no children." Fixed
• Revision 15928 (Modified on 2024-09-10): Action dialog now has a button to edit TaggedValues per action
• Revision 15900 (Modified on 2024-09-02): New StylesInModel animation options animateVisible and animateInVisible Now support taggedvalue BLAZOR=true on viewmodel to display view with blazor

August 2024

• Revision 15891 (Modified on 2024-08-28): Checksum change - when we read model from code we did not account for constructors, since they were not included in the introspection call - this would give a constant diff between code with model introduced constructors and the model read from ModelLayer. The 2 are now synced to ignore constructors for checksum.
• Revision 15881 (Modified on 2024-08-23): fix
• Revision 15877 (Modified on 2024-08-22): WPF issue that showed as some DataGrids did not show more than 2 rows - scrolling in a visible area much smaller that the grid itself. This is connected somehow to RowVirtualization - and was fixed by stting the internal ScrollViewer to CanContentScroll=false , its all a mystery...
• Revision 15872 (Modified on 2024-08-20): Codegen could freeze - added extra await Dispatcher.Yield(); seems to have helped
• Revision 15852 (Modified on 2024-08-14): Blazor fixes
• Revision 15850 (Modified on 2024-08-13): In the ActionEditor when you can choose a ViewModel to open we have now added a New-button that will create and open a new viewmodel for you to define
• Revision 15830 (Modified on 2024-08-10): CodeGen change: new pass to discover missing model methods that has been removed manually (by some mistake) from code file

July 2024

• Revision 15806 (Modified on 2024-07-31): Blazor work in progress - Errors and helper text
• Revision 15803 (Modified on 2024-07-30): Fixes to ViewModelColumn edit when its a InplacePopup - could not select or move it - fixed
• Revision 15794 (Modified on 2024-07-30): Nuget consolidation and updates: Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens 6.17->8.0.1 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Logging" 6.17 8.0.1 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens 7.0.2 -> 8.0.1 System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource 7.0 -> 8.0 System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt 6.17 -> 8.0.1 System.Text.Encodings.Web 7 -> 8 System.Text.Json 7.0.3 -> 8.0.4 System.Threading.Channels 7->8 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Abstractions 7.0.2 -> 8.0.1

June 2024

• Revision 15736 (Modified on 2024-06-30): The question regarding "Model has changes - codegen?" was not updated to look at the new checksum strategy and thus gave message at wrong time - fixed
• Revision 15726 (Modified on 2024-06-14): Issue with the oclEditor Rescue functions that offer to add a missing var/attribute - got confused too easy - fixed
• Revision 15720 (Modified on 2024-06-13): Fixed issue with lagging Enable/Visible for WPF due to late action enable eval triggers some derived that effects early action enable : fixed
• Revision 15714 (Modified on 2024-06-13): null check
• Revision 15709 (Modified on 2024-06-11): SysDocBatch pattern updated for WPF and wecpof
• Revision 15706 (Modified on 2024-06-09): To hard optimizied when checking ActionsThatShowsThis viewmodel - we also need to the root expression due to viewmodel may change root type or root requirement Renaming the expression Score to Cost to better reflect measure
• Revision 15702 (Modified on 2024-06-04): DuckType errorcheck did not check Association classes correctly - fixed
• Revision 15701 (Modified on 2024-06-04): DuckType column name checking did not produce error when pointing out derived targets that cannot be assigned - fixed
• Revision 15699 (Modified on 2024-06-04): selfVM.Download - removing the FileType param Extending SysDocBatch pattern with method OnSysDocBatchViewClose

May 2024

• Revision 15693 (Modified on 2024-05-31): Wecpof implements the OnInitiateUserDownloadOfData - to support the SysDocBatch pattern
• Revision 15685 (Modified on 2024-05-27): Easy access to GetDecodedAccessAndRefreshTokenOnClient for GraphAPISupport
• Revision 15675 (Modified on 2024-05-20): "Text" was missing from the default types on new models
• Revision 15672 (Modified on 2024-05-19): Score calculation now separates between PSExpression and ocl expressions
• Revision 15669 (Modified on 2024-05-17): Improved score calculation for Expressions and ViewModels
• Revision 15668 (Modified on 2024-05-17): ExpressionAnalyze now calculate a scire from MDrivenServer stats
• Revision 15667 (Modified on 2024-05-17): Now MDrivenServer stats per class and per associationEnd is shown in OCLEditor tree when listing classes and associationends AnalyzeExoression Show cost for all included expressions
• Revision 15660 (Modified on 2024-05-16): Better subscription on DirtyList for Save button update in WPF Null ref exception when focusing combobox and it assuming a ContextMenu existing (WPF)
• Revision 15659 (Modified on 2024-05-16): x
• Revision 15653 (Modified on 2024-05-14): Issue with thumbnail viewmodel when only showing tree fixed
• Revision 15652 (Modified on 2024-05-13): ViewModels and Diagrams thumbnails were before rendered as VisualBrushes - this costs both time and memory. To help with large models we now save png files in sub dir _CachedImages (no need to checkin), these are then used as ImageBrushes to show thumbnails in diagrams and overview Location of models / _CachedImages
• Revision 15647 (Modified on 2024-05-09): When a ViewModel is mounted in other viewModels it cannot use self in ReadOnly and Visible expression since the risk is that top level self will differ between mounter and mounted - we now detect this error
• Revision 15645 (Modified on 2024-05-09): Find in model did not look in PlacingContainer Visible and Style expressions - fixed
• Revision 15644 (Modified on 2024-05-09): Major bad change introduced 17 april when handling mounted viewmodels fixed Null check in Wecpof
• Revision 15643 (Modified on 2024-05-08): Action windows tabs - Close only this , and Re-sort, plus update header on show
• Revision 15642 (Modified on 2024-05-08): Action windows consolidated as tabs in one window
• Revision 15622 (Modified on 2024-05-02): Action opt out has been clarified in UI - and opt-out button is removed from viewmodelactions since it does not make sense there