[Versafix-users] VersaFix Update - 03/23/2010 1830 CST
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From: Russell E. C. <ru...@as...> - 2010-03-23 23:57:40
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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 -- Russell E. Curry CEO Assimilate Technology, Inc. www.assimilate.com 715-928-2717 (mobile) |