v4.0.13-beta (dev branch)

IMPORTANT - Work in Progress

This version of the add-in was built from the dev branch, and contains the latest features currently under development. You are welcome to use this for testing or production use, depending on your needs. If you decide to use the dev version in production, please do your own testing to ensure you are getting the desired output for exported source and builds.

If you are building the dev branch from source, you will need version 4.* or newer to successfully build the add-in. (You can build v3 with v4, but you can't build v4 with v3.) In other words, you need this beta version to build the dev branch for the first time.

Features / Fixes (Partial List)

• Enhance XML sanitizing and formatting to use XSL transformations. Thanks, @bclothier!
• Improve the shift-open functionality to use a more reliable API approach. Thanks, @bclothier!
• Improve the handling of ODBC connections that require authentication during build. Thanks, @bclothier! 180b9ef
• Sort timing report output by duration. a614fa5
• Add page to wiki describing the security considerations when using this add-in.
• Add functionality to install add-in in alternate locations, and improve installer GUI. Thanks, @hecon5 for your efforts on this!
• Build out merge support and index integration for all remaining database objects.
• Improve wording on conflict resolution screens. Thanks, @bclothier!
• Make Options and Conflict Resolution forms resizable, and dynamically adjust column widths. 9354576, b50f318
• Update Testing database after latest round of changes and enhancements.
• Change hyperlink labels to buttons. (In case the user has a hyperlink base set for the current database). 44ce3cd
• Improve the user interface experience on the table data export screen. Thanks, @bclothier! b3f1355
• Use worker to handle the clean removal of the add-in on uninstall.
• Fix alternate export of theme file. Thanks, @Tanarri!
• Update UI to enable merge build functionality.
• Add merge hooks to options.
• Update ribbon to latest twinBASIC compiler. ae7aad7
• Enable ribbon commands even when no database is open. (Use temporary database to load add-in project.) #405, 68b668a

Other Changes

• Convert project to stand-alone repository instead of fork. #395
• Rename project from msaccess-vcs-integration to msaccess-vcs-addin . #395

Known Issues

• Merge build functionality has had limited testing in real-world applications. Feel free to use it, but recognize that there may be some bugs that pop up along the way. (Feel free to create issues to address any problems you find.)
• Automatic export on save is currently experimental, and potentially has issues with older versions of Microsoft Access.

See commit history for details on other changes not listed here.