Visual D 1.0.0 released

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Sat Jul 4 13:00:16 UTC 2020


Hello,

after having passed the 10 year anniversary of public availability
recently, it is finally time to release version 1.0 of Visual D, the
Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS 2008-2019.

You can find the installer at
http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html

Highlights from this release:

- semantic engine based on dmd front end now enabled by default and
updated to 2.092. If you are low on memory or run a 32-bit Windows, you
should switch back to the legacy engine.

- debugger extension mago will now evaluate struct or class properties
(methods or fields) __debugOverview, __debugExpanded and __debugTextView
to customize the debugger display. mago can even display forward ranges
as a list, but that is currently rather slow, so it is disabled by
default (see debugger options).

- the bar on the top of the edit window now displays the current edit
scope and allows faster navigation within a source file (needs the dmd
based engine)

- ever wondered how to navigate to the type of a variable declared by
`auto` inference? clicking an identifier in a tool tip from intellisense
will now jump to its definition (only with the dmd based engine)

See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for
the complete list of changes.

Cheers,
Rainer


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