[Versafix-users] VersaFix Update - 03/23/2010 1830 CST

[Russell E. C. <ru...@as...>]

Hi All,

The latest commits to the repository include some significant changes to 
the system:

1. Project Binaries - The 'Lib' Folder Has Been Deprecated!

The project output from building VersaFix now goes exclusively into the 
Bin folder of your working directory, rather than putting any binaries 
in the Lib folder. From this point on, please consider the Lib folder 
deprecated in terms of containing any output from building the system. 
Please take note of this change and start referencing the assemblies in 
the 'Bin' folder rather than those that you may have in the 'Lib' 
folder, because the Visual Studio project no longer outputs binaries in 
the 'Lib' folder, which means that your existing applications will not 
be running off of the latest code if you update from the repository and 
rebuild the project in the future.

2. FIX Dictionary Editor Now Supports QuickFix Data Dictionaries.

The DxEditor utility, a visual editor for FIX data dictionaries now 
provides full support for QuickFix format data dictionaries. You can 
load QuickFix dictionaries by selecting the "QuickFix Format" option in 
the File Open and File Save dialogs in the dictionary editor. This 
allows you to to work with both dictionary formats, in case you want to 
export a VersaFix data dictionary out for use with QuickFix or in case 
you want to export a QuickFix dictionary out for use with the VersaFix 
system. We had a number of uses request this since they already had 
QuickFix dictionaries which contained custom message and field 
definitions and wanted to be able to use those with the VersaFix engine 
instead.

3. Additional Classes For Working With QuickFix Data Dictionaries.

The Vfx.Fix namespace now contains some additional classes for importing 
and exporting QuickFix format data dictionaries. These classes were 
added as part of incorporating QuickFix support into the dictionary 
editor and can also be used for any situation where you might need to 
load a QuickFix dictionary from a file and so on.

Thanks again for the continued support, as we move closer to bringing 
VersaFix to the point where we can refer to it as a 'BETA' release 
rather than an 'ALPHA' release. I anticipate that we will be able to 
shift the project over to beta status in a few days, as we get more code 
moved over to VersaFix from our proprietary source code repository.

As always, please contact us if you have any issues or concerns related 
to the VersaFix system, and we'll have the project information pages 
updated to reflect these recent changes in the next day or two.

Thanks,

Russ

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Russell E. Curry
CEO
Assimilate Technology, Inc.
www.assimilate.com
715-928-2717 (mobile)