Version 4.0

[kinook]

Release on June 6, 2002

• Professional Version


• Tree display of steps, with ability to expand and collapse steps
  
• Custom action screens and components for many third party development tools to simplify the creation of build scripts
  
• Extensive debugging features (single-stepped execution, breakpoints, pause, etc.)
  
• Colorization of build output for easy navigation
  
• Editing and execution of Windows Script is fully integrated
  
• Full support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (of course, Visual Studio 6.0 is still supported as well)
  
• Ability to generate XML and HTML log files
  
• Integration with Windows Scheduled Tasks applet for easy scheduling of builds
  
• Full support for entry and display of Unicode text
  
• Many new user-configurable options
  
• Shortcuts to easily 1) jump to matching output for a step and vice versa, 2) Go to a top-level step, and 3) open a filename displayed in the build output (see View menu)
  
• Multiple failure steps can be defined in a project
  
• Subroutine steps allow modularizing code within a single project
  
• The build status of the steps can be saved in the project file
  
• COM Automation interface to access all application and build components programmatically
  
• Console application to run locally or remotely without requiring interactive desktop access or a GUI
  
• End-user creation of custom action screens and components
  
• Global macros and application options are stored in XML files instead of a user-specific registry key
  
• Single-click testing of steps
  
• Option for macros to be added to environment variables
  
• Search and replace in macros and script as well as steps
  
• Enhancements to tool tip feature
  
• Ability to specify multiple ranges of successful exit codes for the Run Program custom action
  
• Child projects started from a VisBuildPro Project action are launched minimized if the parent project is minimized
  
• Editing of multiple step properties at once via multiple selection