Visual D 0.50.0 released

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 23/06/2019 21:06, Greatsam4sure wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 June 2019 at 17:58:27 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> today a new version of Visual D has been released. Its main new
>> features are
>>
>> - additional installer available that includes DMD and LDC
>>
>> - now checks for updates for Visual D, DMD and LDC, assisted download
>> and install
>>
>> - debugger improvements: better support for dynamic type of classes,
>> show exception messages, conditional breakpoints
>>
>> - highlight references to symbol at caret (experimental)
>>
>> See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for
>> the complete list of changes
>>
>> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to
>> VS2008-2019. It is written in D, its source code can be found on
>> github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull
>> requests welcome.
>>
>> The installers can be found at
>> http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
>>
>> Visual D is now also available in the Visual Studio Marketplace:
>> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RainerSchuetze.visuald
>>
>>
>> Happy coding,
>> Rainer
> 
> 
> Thanks to all, who make this possible.
> 
> Which version of dmd and ldc is bundle with visual-D 0.50 and which
> version of visual studio 2019 does it support.

dmd 2.086.1 and ldc 1.16.0 are bundled. These are mentioned in the
filename of the download, but that isn't obvious on the front page. I
guess this should be shown there, too.

> The latest version studio
> 2019 I have does not support previous version of visual D. I could not
> create a Dlang project with it
> 

Visual D works for VS 2008 up to VS 2019. The new project dialog in VS
2019 makes it hard to discover the new projects because the categories
are hardcoded and cannot be extended. You have to scroll down the list
of "All" project templates. Once used the project types appear in the
recently used projects list.