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• AxTools Visual Logger 2003
• AxTools VssRecursivePurge

AxTools Visual Logger 2003

Synopsis

AxTools Visual Logger is a tool dedicated to ease the software development process, being mainly focused on the debugging phase.

The Visual Logger can be used on development machines when tracing information is added to the application code, or can be deployed with the main application. The logging process can be completely unobtrusive since the Visual Logger server can be instructed to sit minimized to the system tray while processing, and only be shown to the end user when specifically asked by the application developer with the intention for example of saving the log and sending it by e-mail.

Brief features

• Multiple application handling
• Implemented as out-of-process ActiveX server (a .NET interop file is provided)
• Persistent logs, i.e. the log is not closed when the application ends
• The log can be saved to a proprietary format or exported to a text file
• Foreground colors, bold state and indenting can be used to improve readability
• The Visual Logger window minimizes to the system tray
• Logging can be globally paused/restarted from the Visual Logger window

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AxTools VssRecursivePurge

Synopsis

Deleting an item from Visual SourceSafe can be done in one of the following ways:

• By using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer, case when the space in the SourceSafe database is not actually freed until you check the "Destroy permanently" checkbox.
• From an IDE (Visual Basic, Visual C++ etc) case when the "Destroy permanently" option is not even usually available.

As a result, a lot of garbage items will continue to take space in the SourceSafe database until you manually purge them. This operation usually takes a lot of time because it can only be done in a non-recursive manner. Imagine you have 500 folders in the SourceSafe database - manually walking through them and purging logically deleted items may take a lot of time.

AxTools VssRecursivePurge allows you to search for all the logically deleted items in a SourceSafe database and purge part or all of them in a very convenient way. Cleaning up a 500-folder database will take now from seconds to a few minutes, depending on your network configuration.

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What's new in version 1.2

• The login name and vss database text entry fields were changed to combo boxes. The last 10 entered values are remembered for each, and the text entry is implemented through a predictive algorithm.
• Added Windows XP visual styles support.
• When entire projects were found as deleted, purging these projects yielded to situations where their (possible) marked as deleted children caused errors when being purged themselves.
• The user configured system font is now used by all dialogs.

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