AppFactory Changelog

What's new in AppFactory 1.3

Apr 12, 2013
  • Removal of the dependency on System.Windows.Interactivity.dll. This dll was proving problematic to obtain and the behavior in use was easy to replicate with traditional code.
  • New Sample: InfoHub for Windows 8. This template is very basic and should not be used for production, but it demonstrates how to build a fairly configurable Windows 8 project.
  • New Sample: InfoHub for Windows Phone 8. This sample uses the Social Viewer template to display the same data feeds as the InfoHub template above. These two samples share the same database, demonstrating that Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps can be built from the same data.

New in AppFactory 1.2 (May 8, 2012)

  • Added a new task library specific to Windows Phone and a custom task called WPDevice. WPDevice can be used to connect to the emulator (or an actual phone), install applications, launch applications, terminate applications and uninstall applications.
  • Added a new sample project called SampleSS.afproj. This project automatically installs each application, launches it, waits for the user to take some screenshots, uninstalls the app and moves on to the next one.

New in AppFactory 1.1 (May 3, 2012)

  • Fixed an issue where the table name was hard-coded in one of the SQL statements in Sample.afproj.
  • Changed Sample.afproj to use the Folder task from the MSBuild Extensions Pack to remove the contents from the Working folder instead of the Working folder itself. This should resolve an issue where sometimes a build would fail because MSBuild.exe still had the Working folder locked.
  • Added SampleCSV.afproj and Applications.csv to show how to use a text file to drive the build process instead of an Access database.