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Release notes for Catel 3.8
Release date:
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2013/12/06
Added/fixed (BREAKING CHANGES):
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(+) CTL-234 Added IModelEqualityComparer properties (CompareProperties, CompareValues, CompareCollections) which are now defaulting to false. This means that it will now provide much better performance out of the box and follows the Microsoft standard (reference comparison only). It can be customized to check the properties to reproduce the previous behavior
(*) Moved serialization for Xml and Binary to namespaces. This should only cause breaking changes if one of the actual core serialization parts are modified
(-) CTL-199 Removed support for Windows Phone 7.x
(-) CTL-200 Removed support for Silverlight 4
Added/fixed:
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(+) CTL-142 Added support for WIN81
(+) CTL-157 Provide an option to prevent close with Escape for datawindows
(+) CTL-161 Allow registration and resolving of generic types, this means that one can now register an open generic type like IDictionary<,> and resolve it as IDictionary<string, int=””>
(+) CTL-184 Added Retry methods on IExceptionService to allow retrying actions
(+) CTL-191 Create LogListeners from the application config
(+) CTL-205 Added Async methods on IExceptionService
(+) CTL-208 Added support for Entity Framework 6 in a new extension (Catel.Extensions.EntityFramework6)
(+) CTL-219 Implemented BackEntry methods for Windows Phone 8 on the NavigationService
(+) CTL-221 Support property dependency injection
(+) CTL-227 Added the GetHandler method on IExceptionService to allows handlers retrieving more easilly.
(+) CTL-229 Add XmlSerializerOptimalizationMode to allow pretty xml or performance
(+) CTL-235 Added option to allow global enabling / disabling (overriding) of log events on all listeners
(+) CTL-242 Create extension methods for IParent interface
(+) CTL-246 Added CatelTypeInfo (replaces PropertyDataManager.GetCatelProperties()) so more information can be retrieved about Catel types than just the properties
(+) CTL-246 Attribute validation on non-catel properties will be validated now as well as long as the validation is called with the forced parameter set to true
(*) CTL-125 TypeFactory selects wrong constructor when there is more than 1 option. It now tries parameters which accept Object or DynamicObject the latest. Also introduced the InjectionConstructorAttribute so the right constructor can be decorated so it is always selected first by Catel
(*) CTL-155 Replace usages of IServiceLocator by IDependencyResolver
(*) CTL-196 Argument class methods are now decorated with DebuggerNonUserCode in addition to DebuggerStepThrough to provide a better callstack during exceptions at runtime
(*) CTL-202 Small improvements in ModelEqualityComparer to improve performance on large collections
(*) CTL-203 Marked most ModelBase.Load methods as obsolete. Now only 3 methods are recommend to simplify the serialization of models
(*) CTL-207 Improve performance on ModelBase instantiation
(*) CTL-213 Updated FluentValidation to v5
(*) CTL-214 Updated CSLA.NET to v4.5.40
(*) CTL-216 Created generic NotSupportedInPlatform exception with details why a specific feature might not be supported on a specific platform. Also introduced Platforms.CurrentPlatform to determine which platform Catel is currently running on
(*) CTL-218 PleaseWaitWindow now sets IsHitTestVisible to false for dimmed windows to prevent clickable buttons during period
(*) CTL-224 Refactoring on Exception Handling to allows enhancements easier
(x) CTL-133 Start and Update the PleasewaitWindow in an Workerthread throws exception
(x) CTL-203 The Load Method of Catel.Data.ModelBase will call the constructor of the deserialized class two times
(x) CTL-212 PropertyDataManager throws first chance exceptions for generic types
(x) CTL-226 Nested ICollection XML serialization problem
(x) CTL-228 Fixed possible deadlock in CatelDependencyResolver
(x) CTL-240 WP8: “This operation is not supported for a relative URI” on GoBack to the main page
(x) CTL-241 WP8: after the first creation, ViewModels are created twice for each call
(x) CTL-245 Fixed issue where deprecated classes were still decorated with the XmlSchemaProviderAttribute which caused WCF to fail and generate a proxy when using “reuse types in all assemblies”
(x) CTL-254 Log with { and } in literal string caused errors
