Release Notes for Latebound Constants Generator

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Important improvements

• To make life easier: When unchecking a table, a setting can say that also removes all relationships related to that table. At least to me, it was messy to fix without that feature. Issue #115
• Generated with UTF-8 instead of a random encoding.
  Thanks @lsysunbow for your pull request! PR #104 and Issue #103
• Relationships will now always be included from both sides of tables in the relationship. Issue #113

Small stuff

• Cooler, nicer, and more aligned with all my tools – new icons in the menu and buttons!
• A lot of UI improvements. Never underestimate UI…
• Using a TriCheckBox instead of just Checked/Unchecked, mainly for filtering. Commit ff42968
• Another filter option: Uncountable. For some tables, their records can’t be counted. Issue #109
• We can now filter relationships to only show those that are required in lookup columns. Issue #116

Internal code

• Using Rappen.XTB.Helper when needed. You should, too!
• Using Rappen.XTB.Supporting to be able for You to support my tools.
• Pretty huge changes in how Settings and Templates are used. Curious? Go look at PR #117

Bug fixes

I don’t do bugs.

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Version 1.2023.12.1

• Solving issue ‘XrmToolBox.PluginStore missing’ – read more: https://jonasr.app/missing-xrmtoolbox-pluginsstore/
• Kindly stolen code from Ivan Ficko @DynamicsNinja to count records. #89
• Displays number of records for all entities (only for v9.0 or later). #89
• Possibility to only show entities that have any records. #92
• Can count and displays all attributes that are not-null. #90
• Attributes with data count will also display how many unique values.
• Filter to only show attributes with any values. #93
• Filter to only show attributes with >1 unique values.
• Feature to filter out all Microsoft related apps. #88 requested by @jellevervloessem
•   Current MS prefixes are listed as:
          msdyn_
          msdynce_
          msdyncrm_
          msdynmkt_
          msfp_
          mspcat_
          mspp_
          sales_
          adx_
          bot_
          botcomponent_

    Need more? Please comment here! https://github.com/rappen/LCG-UDG/issues/88

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Version 1.2023.2.1

• #79 Handling bugs in the metadata, some should be `IsLogical` but isn’t.
• #85 Better filtering options for Attributes and Relationships

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Version 1.2021.12.1

Fixes:

• #72: Load old project with one-file-per-entity gets include config with every file (not supported)
• #73: Load sometime fails for no project

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Version 1.2021.1.2

Major improvement!

• Configuration will now by default be stored inline in the generated C# file as a comment block in at the end of the file.
• This makes the “project file” obsolete, and a generated C# file can be opened by Latebound Constants Generator and the configuration is parsed from the comment block.

Also:

• Simplify Save and Generate behavior, not prompting all the time (#66)
• Better handling of identifier strings to ensure compilable results (#70)
• Fixed crash when opening configuration containing entities not in the database (#57)

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Version 1.2020.2.1:

• Hide entities, attributes and relationships grids when nothing matches filter (#47)
• Disable entire Project menu when no subitems are enabled (#46)
• Uncheck all attributes and relationships when unchecking an entity (#49)
• Relationship type filters improved (#44)
• Filter to exclude various CDS “internal” attributes (#53)
• Sorting relationships by type, related entity, and lookup in the UI (#54)
• Moved settings to separate dialog (#9)
• Possibile to select which relationships to include
• Major project refactoring to fit UDG features in a common library

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Version 1.2019.12.2:

• #35 Fixed primary key issue with logical attributes, thanks @maerger!
• #38 Fixed de-duplication routine that was confused by comment lines
• Fixed issue with Common Class when including relationships

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Version 1.2019.6.2:

• #30 Enum texts containing [ or ] now created correctly. Thanks to @DerekHAu!
• #33 Add option to include logical attributes
• This will make “non-real” attributes like owneridname and address fields on contact and account etc available.

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Version 1.2019.5.2:

• #22 Many-to-Many relationships included
• #26 EntityCollectionName included
• #27 CLI support for build automation
• #29 Exposing file template for customization of generated file
• Rebranded with 2019 design

* NOTE! #26 introduces a breaking change where constant EntityName is changed to LogicalName. This can be reverted with the introduction of #29.

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Version 1.2018.9.2:

• #16 Generate constants for relationships
• #21 Option to create separate common class for attributes used by multiple entities
• #19 Improved CamelCasing
• #24 Add XML documentation for relationship constants
• #25 Gently forgive file write errors instead of throwing exception
• Template line break bug fixed

Version 1.2018.6.2

• Refactoring from Raise the Bar with Daryl LaBar
• Rebranded

Version 1.2018.2.2

• Improved CamelCasing
• Azure Application Insights for anonymous usage statistics

Version 1.2017.12.2

• Fixed #11 – Too much checkbox cascade
• Implemented #10 – CamelCase option for constants
• Implemented #12 – Pass multiple comma separated prefixes to skip
• Fixed bug when loading configuration

Version 1.2017.12.1

• #4 Don’t add XML doc summary tag if it has no content.
• #5 Handle multi-line descriptions in XML doc comments.
• #6 Add XML doc comments for entities.
• #8 Customize constant prefix and suffix by editing configuration file.

Version 1.2017.11.6

• Added XML Documentation style comments to provide intellisense.
• Settings in config file provide even more constant file formatting options.
• Additional child disease improvements.

First Release 1.2017.11.5

• Added possibility to select all attributes when selecting an entity.
• Include Status and StatusCode optionsets.
• Worked out some child diseases around the settings file and some UI glitches

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