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• Adds support for Visual Studio 2019 Preview
• Drops support for Visual Studio 2012 to 2015
• First-time configuration with administrator privileges is no longer needed

Release Notes 1.4.7

• Visualizer generation for third party assemblies #25. When enabled (it's off by default) LINQBridgeVs will map types in every referenced dlls for every project in a solution.
• LINQBridgeVs will now display an error message for unsupported solutions. #52. .NET Core, .NET Standard and UWP are not supported because of a Visual Studio limitation.
• Added XmlSerialization #50. XmlSerialization has been added to the serialization methods used to transmit variables to LINQPad. This is useful to serialize objects that have xml content (XElement, XmlDocument etc).
• Added support for AnonymousType #46 Are anonymous types supported when used inside a list? and private nested classes.
• Added Json.NET failover serialization #56 Should LINQBridgeVs fail to transmit the object using the chosen serialization method (Binary, Json or Xml) it will try again using Json.NET. If Json.NET is set as the primary method, it will instead use Binary serialization.
• Bug fixing #41 #49 #55 #58

Release full of new features:

• Adds support for LINQPad custom plugin and query folders
• Adds error tracking using Sentry.io
• Adds more meaningful error messages if installation fails, and the option to open an issue on GitHub
• Adds more options to:
  • Select the type of serialization: binary or json (default binary)
  • Turn logging on or off (default off)
  • Turn error tracking on or off (default off)

Fixes:

• #43 Linqpad script generation needs full type name
• #44 Remove other debugger visualizers
• some minor issues with transmitting data over to LINQPad (mainly related to serialization)

This is the debug build release of LINQBridgeVs version 1.4.5 and has logging enabled.

In case you encountered issues during the installation, configuration or during data export with the release build, please use this one instead.

Uninstall everything, and perform a clean install before installing this version. When it fails please check the following folder:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\LINQBridgeVs

you will find a number of txt files. Zip them, open a new issue and attach them.

Thanks!

• Improves build times when solution is Bridged by ~ 100x Dependencies are not merged anymore using ILMerge at compile time, making the whole process much faster. ( #36 )
• Adds an option menu under Tools -> Options -> BridgeVs where it is possible to change the path to the LINQPad exe
• Adds per Visual Studio version LINQPad configuration ( #35 )
• Reduces the footprint of the VSIX installer
• Runtime generated LINQPad script are placed inside a folder that matches the library/exe project name.

This latest release contains all the latest changes to this extension:

• Adds support for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017
• Adds support for LINQPad 5
• Improved startup times by disabling logging
• Easy interface to assist in the first time configuration
• New Visual Studio menu: a new Help menu has been added with two items: Getting Started and Send Feedback
• Interface types (like IEnumerable<T>) are serialized and sent to LINQPad

This is the first update after a long time. It adds support to Visual Studio 2017 and LINQPad 5.

Release is fully compatible with VS2010/VS2012/VS2013.