Text File Splitter Changelog

What's new in Text File Splitter 2.5.1

Jan 21, 2015
  • FIX - There were instances where the splitting strategies were not loading, even when .NET 4.0 was present.

New in Text File Splitter 2.5.0 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • CHG - Converted application to .NET 4.0
  • CHG - Remove the footer checkbox from UI. Not ready yet.
  • NEW - Created SDK bundle for creating new file splitting strategies.
  • NEW - Unit tests for the sample custom splitting strategy.
  • FIX - File encodings are now picked up correctly.
  • FIX - BOM detection now works correctly.
  • FIX - File chunks are now encoded correctly.

New in Text File Splitter 2.2.1 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • FIX - The SplitByNumberOfFilesStrategy stragegy was not picking up the number of chunks from the command-line.

New in Text File Splitter 2.2.0 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • NEW - Added accelerator to the Split! button. It is ALT-S.
  • NEW - Added accelerator to the Get Command Line button. It is ALT-G.

New in Text File Splitter 2.1.1 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • FIX - Some parameters for the new SplitOffChunksAndStop were not being parsed correctly, thus causing an exception in the console app.

New in Text File Splitter 2.1.0 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • NEW - You can now start the console hidden from the command line.
  • NEW - The GUI now includes the new "hide console" functionality in the create command line dialog.
  • NEW - The GUI now allows you to pick your donation currency.
  • FIX - The donate button on the GUI is now directing to the correct website. This fixes
  • the "Fatal Error" that was occurring.
  • CHG - Renamed SplitOffOneChunk to SplitOffChunksAndStop
  • CHG - SplitOffChunksAndStop will now overwrite files, if they already exist.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.6 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • NEW - Implemented the SplitOffOneChunk file splitting strategy that was requested in the forums.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.5 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • FIX - Minor issue with 2 forms where the file pattern was not being updated correctly on visual elements like labels.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.4 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - Changed the validation behavior in the source textbox. It is a bit friendlier now.
  • NEW - Added visual cues for validation on the destination textbox.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.3 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • FIX - Typed in source path was throwing an exception.
  • FIX - File encoding detection was behaving erratically.
  • FIX - Split By Size strategy threw an exception if the textbox for the size was empty.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.2 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • FIX - Forgot to include one file in 2.0.1. That caused it to not run.
  • NEW - Implemented the Split By Number Of Files that ACT4F8 requested in the Feedback Center.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.1 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - Undid the assembly merging, as the previous settings were causing unhandled exceptions. This means that there will be more files.
  • FIX - The Split By Size was not returning the proper command line in the CommandLine dialog.

New in Text File Splitter 2.0.0 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • NEW - Rewritten from scratch.
  • NEW - Completely redesigned user interface
  • NEW - Plugin system for file splitting strategies
  • NEW - Plugin system for file naming tokens
  • NEW - Auto-updater now included
  • NEW - Separate UI and Console apps
  • NEW - Split files keep same encoding as source/parent file.
  • NEW - All splitting operations are only limited by hardware on rhe size of the file being split.

New in Text File Splitter 1.5.1 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • FIX - Output directory set on command-line sometimes caused program to crash.

New in Text File Splitter 1.5.0 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • NEW - Added the ability to specify file patters naming conventions.
  • NEW - Added the ability to omit boundary lines from the chunk files when using regular expressions and text boundaries.
  • NEW - Added the ability to use the boundary lines as chunk file names. This only works when used with regular expression boundary check.
  • CHG - Added a tabbed control to better organize the split by choices.

New in Text File Splitter 1.4.1 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • NEW - Added the ability to specify the number of header lines.

New in Text File Splitter 1.4.0 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • NEW - Added the ability to split by text boundaries. This can be done in three (3) ways: Literal text match, Partial text match, or Regular expression match

New in Text File Splitter 1.3.2 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - Changed the split by size group box to be easier to use and understand.
  • NEW - Added a dropdown combo to quickly select the chunk size measurement. This included bytes (B), kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), and gigabytes (GB).
  • NEW - Output directory will now save and load the last directory that was used.
  • FIX - Two header lines in the first chunk.

New in Text File Splitter 1.3.1 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • NEW - Added autocomplete to the top two textboxes in the GUI. Currently using autocomple control from SkyBound.

New in Text File Splitter 1.3 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - Fixed the instructions from Multiply to Divide to find Kbs.
  • FIX - The first line of the first chunck was being removed when not using the -h switch.
  • FIX - Chunks can now be less than one megabyte.

New in Text File Splitter 1.2 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - All files are merged into the exe.
  • FIX - The split by line was not writing the last chunk to disk.
  • NEW - Added validations to the output directory textbox with an error provider.
  • NEW - Added validations to the lines textbox with an error provider.

New in Text File Splitter 1.1 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • CHG - Removed both -l and -kb command-line parameters. These were redundant.
  • FIX - The split by line count was not working. The code was broken.
  • NEW - Added links to the feature requests and support pages on the website to the main form.