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Changelog-Designer

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MDRIVEN: CHANGELOG - DESIGNER

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ChangeLog - MDriven Designer

January 2025

Revision 16335 (Modified on 2025-01-29): Issue in ErrorCheck ViewModels placingContainers, Nestings are perceived to not have self when stricter root rules are applied: fixed
Revision 16329 (Modified on 2025-01-29): Changes in how often we need to convert to runtime model (before we had to do this after each error check, and whenever AutoDiagram added a new attribute - turned large models sluggish)
Revision 16328 (Modified on 2025-01-27): ViewModel History links moved to tree and thus available in both WPF and Web
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Revision 16325 (Modified on 2025-01-27): UIFirst button in WPF ViewModelEditor moved to tree and thus also available in Web ViewModelEditor Filter ViewModel-columns moved to tree and thus also available in Web ViewModelEditor
Revision 16322 (Modified on 2025-01-26): Issues with DebuggerTab in LiveEdit
Revision 16321 (Modified on 2025-01-26): Debugger in LiveEdit behaved badly if EcoSpace was not active
Revision 16320 (Modified on 2025-01-26): For cacheInvalidations ViewModels we now recognise columns CacheIgnoreObjects* , that should return list of objects that will be ignored from the manifest - this further extends the existing CacheIgnoreClasses. The OCLDebugger tabs for ViewModelTree and ViewModelUI now has an new button : CacheInvalidation Manifest Size This button creates text output to inform how large the manifest will be if CacheInvalidation is used, and what it will contain. Example of output: C A C H E - I N V A L I D A T I O N - M A N I F E S T -------------------- 1 Detail.Attribute1 1 Detail.Attribute2 1 Detail.Class1 1 Detail.Thing 1 Thing.AssociationClass 1 Thing.Details 1 Thing.MultiValuePick 1 Thing.SomeDateTime 1 Thing.SomeInt 1 Thing.SomeString -------------------- Totals number of rows: 11 If the manifest contains more than 50ish (debatable) lines you should try to cut away things that are unlikely to change Some attributes/objects may really be immutable in practice, and thus not worth tracking change on CacheIgnoreClasses column is used to return a list of string names of classes we should ignore totally CacheIgnoreObjects<name> columns are used to return lists of objects to ignore totally NOTE! what you see here is how ONE-SPECIFIC-OBJECT will fare, you should test several objects to see what is representative NOTE! You may want to revisit this tool when you have collected more data in your system - to get representative manifest sizes
Revision 16318 (Modified on 2025-01-24): Codegen could break silently - fixed, shows a dialog with why it failed ModlrTree search result - contextmenu did not show in after the re-engineering of search - fixed
Revision 16317 (Modified on 2025-01-24): Stricter vCurrent_ recurse rules; you cannot use vCurrent_ variables at the same nesting level they track nor can you use lower levels vCurrent_ , same for vSelected_ The result will cause errors because a nesting cannot be defined by the its lower result. New setting on package : "Stricter vCurrent_ recursion rules" "Stricter Require root rules"; setting from before on package, but its now default on
Revision 16314 (Modified on 2025-01-24): Issues with AnalyzeExpressions and ReCreate-expressions did not correctly handle DateTime constants - and multiple use of derivations could make AnalyseExpressions fail to show correctly when using ExpandDerivations - fixed
Revision 16313 (Modified on 2025-01-24): ModlrTree seeker re-engineered to deal with performance issues - specifically the initial freeze when re-index need discovered made me switch strategy and skip the index and use modellayer-data directly
Revision 16311 (Modified on 2025-01-22): Clean up of CellStyles for Styles in Model, further aligning between Blazor and Angular for Styles in model Issue with add-SingleLink-Setter in grid cell fixed
Revision 16307 (Modified on 2025-01-21): Skip using AttributeType derived attribute in ModelConvert reduce the need to place subscribers, saves measurable time on monster model with 5000 classes Fixes in ModlrTree search - it was wrong internally when building the result, wasting time Fixes to ModlrTree Attributes, now defers fill of attribute/method/relation nodes until expand - saves a lot on monster model
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Revision 16301 (Modified on 2025-01-17): LiveEdit better preserve of object-green-dot , so that context is kept when switching between ViewEdit and LiveEdit
Revision 16300 (Modified on 2025-01-17): Issues in CodeGen could lead to re-creation of exciting methods
Revision 16294 (Modified on 2025-01-16): Ability to set StyleName had been accidentally removed in StylesInModel- fixed
Revision 16293 (Modified on 2025-01-15): Changes Add Column from model, moved into menu and now allows for select of many
Revision 16292 (Modified on 2025-01-15): LiveEdit view had issues when url was blank LiveEdit hid green-ball-droptarget when in debugger and this was wrong
Revision 16289 (Modified on 2025-01-12): Duplicate whole style via menu
Revision 16288 (Modified on 2025-01-12): Better actions handling when nesting is tuple, from before we acted on first object , but now the ActAsForActions expression can be used to for this. StylesInModelView cleaned up for usability Issue with styles and merge and double merged discovered and fixed (styles disappeared if merged again)
Revision 16285 (Modified on 2025-01-10): Experiment with Blazor issue of single subscribers
Revision 16279 (Modified on 2025-01-08): Clip-Paste had stopped working in ViewModelEditor - fixed by redesign to allow for both complex Modlr-Data-Copy and simple text copy
Revision 16275 (Modified on 2025-01-07): Several issues with InplacePopup handled - it did not correctly build inner PC structure of popup and left residues outside of popup MDrivenStyleChecker logic reworked to allow for ModelIndepentant access and view - removing the need to add a MDrivenStyleChecker ViewModel for this purpose. MDrivenStyleChecker now backed by localhost turnkeyserver; MDDesign/StyleOverview StylesInModel-view , ,colors took to much space and was moved into an inplace popup Blazor mistake made all blobs render as texts - fixed
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Revision 16273 (Modified on 2025-01-03): StyleInDesign and VisibleInDesign for placingcontainers now in ModelIndependant web render
Revision 16272 (Modified on 2025-01-02): If checksum is off Upload button turns pink. ViewModelCombo in liveview now has Category option
Revision 16271 (Modified on 2025-01-02): YellowAnimtationDot on Select in Tree and in WebView

December 2024

Revision 16270 (Modified on 2024-12-31): Many changes to WebViewEdit : x COntextMeny på orange prick Click on action view opens webview if open Buttons hidden in web-viewedit BrowserBack,UrlEdit,StyleCheck,GoView/CLear+Prick, Upload model WebView tabs changed display when selected Add viewmodel in WebViewEdit WebView from toolbar when holding ctrl brings up second window Combo of viewmodels change changes WebViewEdit directly Sync ViewEdit and LiveView
Revision 16269 (Modified on 2024-12-29): Switching back to Angular in LiveEdit due to blazor issues
Revision 16268 (Modified on 2024-12-28): Ongoing work to separate WebEdit from WPFEdit fully
Revision 16267 (Modified on 2024-12-28): Work in progress - Isolated edit in WebBlazor of one view, ModelIndependant Edit of WebViews in Blazor
Revision 16260 (Modified on 2024-12-27): Work in progress - Isolated edit in WebBlazor of one view, ModelIndependant Edit of WebViews in Blazor
Revision 16257 (Modified on 2024-12-21): Made Stable/Dynamic on diagrams more prominent, moved and cleaned in right click menus
Revision 16255 (Modified on 2024-12-21): Build system now inject correct BuildTime and you can access the via Eco.Interfaces.VersionInfo.ThisVersionDateTime
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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