Ubercode news blog (most recent at top)

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Welcome to the Ubercode news blog. This is updated monthly, or whenever personal life allows. Here I talk about the ease-of-use and power of Ubercode and its latest improvements. Sometimes I blog about website updates and I may even wander off for a rant on unrelated topics. The most recent entries are at the top.

Data Connector Classes for v1.3 (9 Feb 2013)

• I am still working on the Data Connector Classes, and I plan these to be included in the next release of Ubercode. The key part of the work is a new wizard Program - Add Data Source which browses for a data source, prompts you for the columns to include, and generates a class that connects to the data source. The new class includes data viewers, table viewers, record viewers, and other tools for working with the data source. Basically a data source class provides dialogs and commands for editing and displaying the data.
• The data sources will include CSV (comma separated value) files, XML files, Dbase files and text files with other separators such as tabs or semi-colons. The code for these file-based data sources is working, although I am running some final testing for Dbase files.
• Still to come are the data sources that connect to databases. The SQL connection code is already working (in class sqlutil) but I have to finish the part of the wizard that automatically creates the connector class for SQL. This is the last major hurdle prior to releasing Ubercode v1.3.
• In the meantime there is a new Trial Pack download which includes the wizard for the file-based data sources. So if you want to quickly create a program that works with CSV files, XML files or Dbase files then download the new Trial Pack now and get started!

Earlier News

During 2012 I worked on Data Connector Classes and on the Add Data Source wizard. When complete, the wizard automatically creates classes to connect to most types of data, including CSV files, text files, XML files, Dbase files, and SQL Server and MySQL tables and views.

During 2011 I did a lot of ground work for the next version of Ubercode.

During 2010 version 1.2 of Ubercode was released. This included many improvements and the ability to connect to Microsoft SQL Server.

During 2009 the Ubercode forum became live - many thanks to Mike who helped get it off the ground, and thanks to everyone who asked (and answered) questions. Also I made a lot of improvements ready for the v1.2 release.

During 2008 there was a need for speed - Ubercode got a much faster installer (5 times faster) and the compiler became faster (about twice as fast). Also I ported Ubercode to Windows Vista, and I presented Ubercode Basic at the European Shareware Conference 2008 (ESWC) in Berlin.

During 2007 Ubercode finally got a help system based on HTML Help (CHM files). Also I gave a presentation on Ubercode at the European Shareware Conference (ESWC), and you will see a detailed write-up of the 2007 Conference in Cologne. Read the 2007 news for more details.

During 2006 Ubercode was written up in the International Developer Magazine, also the Ubercode website was reviewed at the European Shareware Conference (ESWC). Read the 2006 news for full details.

During 2005 a historic moment occurred - version 1.0 of Ubercode was finally released.

During 2004 a beta version of Ubercode was released.

During 2003 the Ubercode website was completely rebuilt (I'm too ashamed to put up a link to the earlier website!). Also a pre-release version of Ubercode was prepared.

News from 2002 and before is here - this news is from the very early version of the Ubercode website.

Pre-website news 1999 and earlier is here, including an early picture of Ubercode.