Great news! Starting with Catel 5.9.0-alpha.24 (available on MyGet), all the packages contain the following source control information: Repository Url Commit SHA We also migrated the PDB file format to portable (full). This means that all debug information is now available and allows any user of Catel to step into the Catel source code. Verifying the SourceLink information To verify the SourceLink information, you can open the NuGet package using NuGet Package Explorer: You can also optionally use SourceLink tools to verify the generated pdb files. Enabling support for SourceLink in Visual Studio To start using this feature, make sure to enable the following features in Visual Studio:
Thanks to some contributions to the Open Collective of Catel, we were able to purchase a code-signing certificate and will be code-signing new packages of Catel starting with Catel 5.9-alpha0021 (available on MyGet). Code signed assemblies The assemblies will be code-signed, which can be seen via the properties. Code signed NuGet packages The NuGet packages will be code-signed, which can be seen via the NuGet Package Explorer. Consider contributing to Catel Haven’t heard yet about Catel joining Open Collective? Please consider making a personal or enterprise contribution to provide us with resources to continue development on Catel.
We are happy to announce that we have released Catel 5.8.0. As always, we recommend to update your apps and libraries to this new version as soon as possible. The new version can be retrieved via NuGet. Platform support changes #1103 / #1165 Convert to multi-targeted projects, PCL is no longer supported (.NET Standard is the replacement) Classes / members marked as obsolete #1124 Mark NullableValueConverter as obsolete since converter doesn’t have a target type, so this converter won’t work as expected NullableValueConverter #1209 Mark IStartupInfoProvider as obsolete in favor of Orc.CommandLine since that implementation takes better care of supporting different quote styles (e.g. allows ‘) #1216 Mark binary serializers… read more →
We are happy to announce that we have put Catel 5.8.0 into beta. This means the team thinks it’s code complete, and only bug fixes will be applied to the beta channel. We aim to release the new version on November 12, 2018 so make sure to test before this date. Our recommendation is to try out the new beta as soon as possible, this is your time to provide feedback! We already had some great feedback, thanks for the users reporting. You can download the beta via NuGet, just make sure to enable “Include prerelease” when checking for updates. Changes in Catel so far: Platform support changes #1103 /… read more →
Catel has joined Open Collective. This means it’s easier than ever to support the development and maintenance of Catel. If you use Catel, there are lots of ways to contribute: Talking about it (community events, blog posts, friends, etc) Reporting bugs Improving code (via PR) Adding new features (via PR) Supporting financially (as a backer, sponsor or donator) Using Catel commercially? Ask your manager to sponsor Catel as a company so we can keep providing quality updates. Becoming a backer / sponsor The Catel team would appreciate any financial support for the work we are doing. To become a backer, sponsor or donator, go to Open Collective and click one… read more →
Today we have released Catel 5.7.0. As always, we recommend to update your apps and libraries to this new version as soon as possible. The new version can be retrieved via NuGet. Platform support changes #1103 / #1165 Convert to multi-targeted projects, PCL is no longer supported (.NET Standard is the replacement) Classes / members marked as obsolete #1124 Mark NullableValueConverter as obsolete since converter doesn’t have a target type, so this converter won’t work as expected NullableValueConverter #1209 Mark IStartupInfoProvider as obsolete in favor of Orc.CommandLine since that implementation takes better care of supporting different quote styles (e.g. allows ‘) Added/fixed (+) #1204 Support PasswordBox for the ‘SelectOnFocus’ behavior… read more →
Today we have released Catel 5.6.0. As always, we recommend to update your apps and libraries to this new version as soon as possible. The new version can be retrieved via NuGet. Platform support changes #1103 / #1165 Convert to multi-targeted projects, PCL is no longer supported (.NET Standard is the replacement) Classes / members marked as obsolete #1124 Mark NullableValueConverter as obsolete since converter doesn’t have a target type, so this converter won’t work as expected NullableValueConverter Added/fixed (+) #1188 Add ResourceHelper.ExtractEmbeddedResource (+) #1190 Add ServiceLocator.TypeUnregistered event with type / instance info (+) #1193 Add Task<ProcessResult> IProcessService.RunAsync(ProcessorContext) (+) #1199 Support serialization of root dictionaries in xml and binary serializers… read more →
We are happy to announce that we have put Catel 5.6.0 into beta. This means the team thinks it’s code complete, and only bug fixes will be applied to the beta channel. Our recommendation is to try out the new beta as soon as possible, this is your time to provide feedback! You can download the beta via NuGet, just make sure to enable “Include prerelease” when checking for updates. Changes in Catel 5.6.0 so far: Platform support changes #1103 / #1165 Convert to multi-targeted projects, PCL is no longer supported (.NET Standard is the replacement) Classes / members marked as obsolete #1124 Mark NullableValueConverter as obsolete since converter doesn’t… read more →
Today we have released Catel 5.5.0. As always, we recommend to update your apps and libraries to this new version as soon as possible. The new version can be retrieved via NuGet. Note this change also includes the simplified solution structure, meaning it should be much easier to fork & contribute to Catel in the future. Platform support changes #1103 / #1165 Convert to multi-targeted projects, PCL is no longer supported (.NET Standard is the replacement) Classes / members marked as obsolete #1124 Mark NullableValueConverter as obsolete since converter doesn’t have a target type, so this converter won’t work as expected NullableValueConverter Added/fixed (+) #1183 Add MultiLingual App Toolkit (MAT)… read more →
One of the things we’ve been proud of over the last few years is the support for multiple platforms without being forced into the “least significant” platform (e.g. PCL). Catel has always been (and in the foreseeable future, will be) released for each target platform (e.g. NET45, NET46, NET47, Xamarin.iOS, etc). The advantage is that we can leverage the platform for each implementation (e.g. .NET is more “powerful” than UWP, etc). The downside of this approach is that we had to deal with lots of hacks to make sure we could compile Catel against each platform. For the last few years, we’ve been using shared projects, which allowed the team… read more →
