No install (portable) build added

Time passes fast. It has been a year since the last blog post. It is mostly due to the changes being not so substantial as they were at the beginning what gave a natural reason to blog about. Nevertheless the project still grows regularly.

Finally in the last days a more visible change appeared. I noticed that the binary image of the installation was used by several persons as an independent software. It mostly worked but without component registration some functionality like input parsing was missing. I believe for many people being able to run software without running installer is quite important. To make it more usable a new, slightly modified distribution using Registration Free COM paradigm based on the application manifest instead of Registry is used in the WhiteStarUML-NoInstall.zip distribution. Using it is as simple as decompressing the zip file and finally running as administrator a short install.bat file to register last features that were not supported by Registration Free COM. To uninstall run uninstall.bat. Currently it is an initial build and still may have some problems.

If you are using the version coming with the installer (WhiteStarUMLsetup.exe) those changes do not affect you and you can use the program as before.