Hi,

I have made a new release of Visual D available. Some highlights of version 0.48.0:

* installer and binaries now digitally signed by the "D Language Foundation"
* experimental: option to enable semantic identifier highlighting
* mago debugger: show return value, closure and capture variables as
locals (with dmd 2.084/nightly)

See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the full list of changes.

Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2008-2017. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull requests welcome.

The installer can be found at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html

Happy coding,
Rainer

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have made a new release of Visual D available. Some highlights of version 0.48.0:
>
> * installer and binaries now digitally signed by the "D Language Foundation"
> * experimental: option to enable semantic identifier highlighting
> * mago debugger: show return value, closure and capture variables as
> locals (with dmd 2.084/nightly)
>
> See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the full list of changes.
>
> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2008-2017. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull requests welcome.
>
> The installer can be found at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
>
> Happy coding,
> Rainer

Bravo!
Thank you for your awesome work as always Rainer!

For those following, this release is something really special.

On Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Bravo!
> Thank you for your awesome work as always Rainer!
>
> For those following, this release is something really special.

I am not following... why is special? Because of the new debugging function?

On Monday, 3 December 2018 at 10:04:48 UTC, M.M. wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Bravo!
>> Thank you for your awesome work as always Rainer!
>>
>> For those following, this release is something really special.
>
> I am not following... why is special? Because of the new debugging function?

Just have a look at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html ;)

On Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 16:02:25 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made a new release of Visual D available. Some highlights of version 0.48.0:
>
> * installer and binaries now digitally signed by the "D Language Foundation"
> * experimental: option to enable semantic identifier highlighting
> * mago debugger: show return value, closure and capture variables as
> locals (with dmd 2.084/nightly)
>
> See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the full list of changes.
>
> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2008-2017. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull requests welcome.
>
> The installer can be found at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
>
> Happy coding,
> Rainer


It will be nice if you can port this code base to vs code. It is the same visual studio code base.

It will be nice if visual D can also be use in vs code. To me Visual D is great but I don't like visual studio

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:08:33 +0000, greatsam4sure wrote:
> It will be nice if you can port this code base to vs code. It is the same visual studio code base.

Pardon? VS Code is an Electron application written mainly in TypeScript, while Visual Studio is a Windows application written in C++ and C#. They're quite different codebases with quite different plugin architectures.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:30 AM Petar via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 3 December 2018 at 10:04:48 UTC, M.M. wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> Bravo!
> >> Thank you for your awesome work as always Rainer!
> >>
> >> For those following, this release is something really special.
> >
> > I am not following... why is special? Because of the new debugging function?
>
> Just have a look at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html ;)

A big thing that didn't seem to make it into the changelog, is that the syntax colouring is MUCH more detailed. It is now competitive with VisualAssist for C++.

On 03/12/2018 22:10, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:08:33 +0000, greatsam4sure wrote:
>> It will be nice if you can port this code base to vs code. It is the same visual studio code base.
> 
> Pardon? VS Code is an Electron application written mainly in TypeScript, while Visual Studio is a Windows application written in C++ and C#. They're quite different codebases with quite different plugin architectures.
> 

I also doubt there is much that can be easily transferred from Visual D to VS Code. Browsing the documentation I found this, though: "VS Code uses a tools service architecture that enables it to integrate with many of the same technologies that power Visual Studio, including Roslyn for .NET, TypeScript, the Visual Studio debugging engine, and more."

Being mostly interested in the claim about the debugger I took a short look at the C++ extension: it actually uses a debug engine that looks very similar to the one used in VS. This might allow adding the mago Concord extension for D style expression evaluation to VS Code, too. I haven't found a way to configure it to match the source language to the extension, though.

Hi,

I have uploaded a bugfix release 0.48.1, among other things fixed:

- goto definition on alias: jump to base definition if caret on alias
- cv2pdb: fix missing line numbers for new versions of mspdb*.dll
- mago: variables captured from stack of outer function not displayed in
locals

Head over to http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html or directly to https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.48.1

Happy holidays,
Rainer

On 02/12/2018 17:02, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have made a new release of Visual D available. Some highlights of version 0.48.0:
> 
> * installer and binaries now digitally signed by the "D Language Foundation"
> * experimental: option to enable semantic identifier highlighting
> * mago debugger: show return value, closure and capture variables as
> locals (with dmd 2.084/nightly)
> 
> See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the full list of changes.
> 
> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2008-2017. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald, pull requests welcome.
> 
> The installer can be found at http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
> 
> Happy coding,
> Rainer
>