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ConsoleHoster Changelog

What's new in ConsoleHoster 4.2.0.1

Mar 26, 2014
  • Ability to have each console output to be logged and stored.
  • Polished up the Project details UI.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Fixed the hanging FontSettings issue.

New in ConsoleHoster 4.2.0.0 (Mar 15, 2014)

  • Ability to have each console output to be logged and stored.
  • Polished up the Project details UI.
  • Performance improvements.

New in ConsoleHoster 4.1.1.0 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Fixed the issue with Global Commands updating.

New in ConsoleHoster 4.1 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Startup performance improved by 25%.
  • Fixed the bug related to the Explorer Tree not loading the tree when a project instance is just started.
  • Performance and quality improvements in Explorer tree.

New in ConsoleHoster 4.0 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • Added confirmation message when deleting a project
  • Some UI improvements in terms of consistency
  • Introduced Export projects/commands functionality
  • Introduced Import projects/commands functionality

New in ConsoleHoster 3.9 (May 23, 2013)

  • Fixed the single-message as a whole issue, where a new symbol appearing caused a whole line to disappear from the beginning, in the "Show most recent messages only" mode.
  • Fixed the bug with not ordering properly the duplicated projects after creating one.
  • Fixed the bug with the Up/Down arrows to be ignored in case of multiline commands.
  • Made the number of recent messages a configuration setting through the ConsoleHoster.exe.config file.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.8 (May 18, 2013)

  • Performance improvements during startup.
  • Projects Manager now handles also duplicate projects and new project scenarios.
  • Bug fixes (including one crashing).

New in ConsoleHoster 3.7.7.0 (May 14, 2013)

  • Fixed the bug with not loading global commands!
  • Contains critical bug-fixes.
  • Set the cmd.exe as default executable for new projects.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.7.6.0 (May 13, 2013)

  • Contains critical bug-fixes.
  • Set the cmd.exe as default executable for new projects.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.7.5.0 (May 10, 2013)

  • Removed the User's Guide menu item from the help. Added new "Online Help" menu item.
  • Added hotkey for toggling explorer pane visibility: Ctrl+E
  • Added hotkey for toggling commands pane visibility: Ctrl+D
  • Huge performance improvement on starting projects.
  • Fixed the problem of stopping loading projects while starting an auto-load project.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.7 (May 7, 2013)

  • Fixed the issue with enabled "Try break execution" button, when the console is not in a working state.
  • UI improvements.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.6.1.0 (May 2, 2013)

  • Added the keyboard hot key (Alt + Right Click) for adding an explorer item to favorites.
  • Updated the website URL in About dialog to point to www.consolehoster.net.
  • Updated all the popup windows to be shown centered to the owning window.
  • Fixed the bug with removing current project from the menu.
  • Unified the Confirmation dialog to be styled like others with background and nice icon.
  • Fixed the bug with not updating project details, if there is no started instance of that project type.
  • Other UI improvements.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.6 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Added the Projects Manager to allow update/removal of projects
  • Fixed the bug with not being able to modify project details without having project instance started.
  • Fixed the bug with project instances having the same name (a unique suffix now is added to the actual name).
  • Fixed the CPU performance counter.
  • Introduced auto-suggestion for working directories - to pick up the one where the executable is specified.
  • Unified the browse button for working directory and the executable.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.5 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • Switched to .Net 4.5 (dropped support for Windows XP)
  • Fixed the bug with "Add to Favorites functionality"
  • Provide only folder suggestions for "cd" command
  • Fixed the bug related to the failed-to-start projects, which was causing the app to crush.
  • Added sorting for the commands in project details window
  • Added the application version to the title of the app window
  • When running the app as Administrator, a message in the title says that
  • Fixed the bug with Ctrl+W showing error, if there is no open project
  • Explorer tree improvements
  • Fixed the issue with duplicating projects
  • Added the process CPU performance graph
  • Updated the update confirmation dialog to show the coming changes info

New in ConsoleHoster 3.1 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Fixed the bug with not-loading the explorer tree sub folder when the project just started.
  • Ability to hide the commands pane: Show Commands Pane menu item in the View menu.
  • Ability to provide suggestions in both directions - next (Tab) and previous (Shift+Tab).
  • Explorer tree now shows real icons for items as they appear in Windows Explorer
  • Added the "Use Name" context menu option for explorer tree items - to be able to use only the item name when needed.
  • Added the "Use Name" context menu option for explorer tree items - to be able to use only the item name when needed.

New in ConsoleHoster 3.0.1.0 (Jan 29, 2013)

  • Fixed the issue with crashing font
  • Fixed the issue where the curly braces in the folder name causing the app to crash.
  • Changed the auto-completion engine to allow curly braces ('{' and '}') to be part of the folder/file name.
  • Fixed the project busy-state indicator issue, where it could not show the actual busy state.
  • Changed the context-menu items in explorer tree to not show up non-related menu items for different types of items (files, folders, drives).
  • Fixed the first 'enter' issue where hitting enter with no command provided being ignored.

New in ConsoleHoster 2.9 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Bug fixes.
  • Added Try Break button for the project instead of the Ctrl+C support, which was confusing - when trying to copy something from the output
  • UI improvements.
  • When closing a project, the underlying process will receive a "Try Break" command.

New in ConsoleHoster 2.8 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Support for breaking execution as in Windows Command Prompt: Ctrl+C
  • UI improvements

New in ConsoleHoster 2.7 (Jan 6, 2013)

  • UI support for easy show/hide explorer pane.
  • Default explorer tree visibility option is now permanent and configurable through the project's settings.
  • Several performance improvements.

New in ConsoleHoster 2.6 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Auto-update notifications
  • Support for same-name commands in different groups
  • Context menu option to add folders to favorites as commands

New in ConsoleHoster 2.5 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • Added support for shortcut commands (^Command button label^)
  • Added support for pre & post processed commands: better handling of "cls" command

New in ConsoleHoster 2.4.1 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Fixed the crashing issue related to the About dialog
  • Fixed the unresponsive UI issue in case of stressed output from the underlying project

New in ConsoleHoster 2.4 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • Fixed the wait indicator problem on explorer tree
  • Fixes and improvement of color-chooser dialog
  • Support for cls command to clear the output
  • Added file-picker dialog support in the project details window for selecting the executable
  • Added tooltips for project buttons
  • New application icon
  • And some performance optimizations.

New in ConsoleHoster 2.3 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Fixed some critical bugs.
  • Introduced the color picker

New in ConsoleHoster 2.2 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • Introduced ability to easily use command button text
  • Bug fixes:
  • fix for the waiting file-item in the explorer tree
  • fix for non-interactive explorer tree icons
  • fix for opening context menu on explorer item, when starting explorer
  • fix for the output pane scroll, when going through the commands in history

New in ConsoleHoster 2.1 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • Optimized tab-switching performance
  • Focus on Command area when running a command
  • Underscore bug with commands fixed

New in ConsoleHoster 2.0 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Ability to manage global commands
  • Bold/non-bold font support
  • Closing active project when removing the project
  • Fix for hiding explorer pane, to expand the output area

New in ConsoleHoster 1.5 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Added wait indicator in the expanding folder in explorer tree.
  • Fixed the halting issue - so the explorer tree navigation doesn't even affect the performance of user interaction
  • Fixed the bug with running commands from explorer tree, where those have paths with spaces.
  • Fixed the bug with synced navigation so the old folder now collapses when navigating to another one.

New in ConsoleHoster 1.4 Beta (Aug 20, 2012)

  • Implemented "Run in external console" functionality

New in ConsoleHoster 1.2.0.1 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Fixed the loading performance of the Fonts Selection dialog
  • UI changes

New in ConsoleHoster 1.1.1.0 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Added URL support to the output (so the output URLs will be clickable).
  • Fixed the message synchronization issue, where messages were merging into each other
  • More performance improvements.

New in ConsoleHoster 1.1 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • Performance improvements - also the startup is much faster.
  • Fix to apply changes to project details immediately - so no need to close and open the project.
  • Duplicate project functionality
  • Support for colored project buttons
  • UI changes
  • Fixed bug for auto-loading projects.
  • Fixed the bug with project commands to get more space for text

New in ConsoleHoster 1.0.4 Beta (Aug 3, 2012)

  • Improved the performance and fixed the high-cpu issue in case of no action.
  • Added color support to commands.
  • Changed the grouping of the commands.
  • Updated the user's guid.

New in ConsoleHoster 1.0.3 Beta (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Updated the New/Edit project window to show the selected colors (foreground, background, error-color)
  • Updated the Fonts chooser popup to show items each in its font style
  • Made some performance improvements.
  • Added supported for switching between open projects with Ctrl+Tab

New in ConsoleHoster 1.0.2 Beta (Jul 30, 2012)

  • Made some improvements.
  • Integrated the help (the user's guid document for now) into the application package, so it will be possible to open the User's Guid from the help menu.
  • Made the open projects' current folders' visible in tooltips when moving cursor over the tab headers.
  • Added the About dialog.
  • Backend Improvements - moving towards the plugin - based architecture.

New in ConsoleHoster 1.0.1 Beta (Jul 28, 2012)

  • Added logic to disable commands for ended/finished project executable.
  • Some internal improvements.