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Stephen W. Meeley
17-Feb-2010, 03:45 PM
With thanks to all the testers for their input, we are pleased to announce the availability of Visual Report Writer Release Candidate II. With an extended integration library and several other important improvements and fixes; Visual Report Writer seems on track for its release in March 2010.

This version is developed with, and for Visual DataFlex Studio 15.1. So make sure you have a 15.1 Visual DataFlex Studio, or Client License installed and download RC II now! Follow the instructions at:

Register and Download Visual Report Writer release Candidate II (http://www.dataaccess.nl/IframeText.asp?pageid=1989)


Changes in RC II with regards to integration:


Added new property (pbShowInformationMessages) to control display of informational messages
Added new function (ReportQuery) to retrieve the SQL Query string
Property psExportFileName added, needed for OutputReport
Property peExportType added, needed for OutputReport
TableName function renamed to psTableName, can also be set
Marked cVRWAPI as abstract class
Set psFilterFunction missed refresh operation
Get psFilterFunction called wrong refresh routine causing error 98
OpenReport unconditionally overwrote the filterstring of the report
Get/Set psTableSchema check if table number is in range (check was one off)
Removed hardcoded object names from the cVRWCommandBarSystem class
Captured possible error conditions in cVRWMenuItem
Marked cVRWMenuItem as an abstract class
Reordered properties and methods
Find more details in the updated User’s Guide that comes with RC II.


Release Candidate II changes and fixes


Added ability to manually activate your license
HDE/1072 ‘License file not installed’ error when installing on Vista or Win7
HDE/1070 License file should not be installed in VRW folder
HDE/1063 It’s not possible to stop the reading process in VRW
HDE/1080 When changing from a language to English (US) nothing happens
HDE/328 Records/pages in status bar are not updated correctly
HDE/1074 Linking in database export dialog does not work correctly
HDE/1098 Export to PDF crashes VRW
HDE/1103 Report preview crash when using DataFlex (embedded) database with NUM 10.0 field(s)
HDE/1099 Typo in User’s Guide
Performance bug in DataFlex (embedded) driver
Filter expert always expected dates formatted as military, now dates are converted depending on your locale settings
Images failed to appear on printed reports
Several other issues are fixed.
Reporting bugs, comments and suggestions

We have tried to resolve all the serious reports on the RC I build. Please let us know if this build fixes the reported issues, if you have not done so yet. If your reported bug is not fixed in this release send an email to support@dataaccess.nl and we’ll inform you about status and plans, or you can look up the status in HelpDeskExpress.

Please report bugs to support@dataaccess.nl. Make sure to provide as much detail as possible to define and reproduce the problem that you are reporting. Upon your report, you will be invited to use an account on our help-desk support system for reporting future issues.

Best regards,

Data Access Worldwide