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It can be downloaded here
The release notes are here

WHAT IS NEW?

Projects
The biggest change is Template Projects. These projects contain a group of templates that can be executed at once. For example, a Project of documentation templates. The project can be pointed to a database and unique templates to document a table, a function etc will be run. In our template library we use projects to script out objects in a database as well. We have some other examples of them.

More templates
We've included a lot more templates - for example auditing, documentation, scripting and NHibernate. We have plans to make a much larger library and will be posting an online version of it soon.

Usability Improvements
We've totally changed the UI in an attempt to make it more user friendly. The paradigm of picking a schema and running a template against it has been reversed. Now you pick a template and run it against a set of schema objects. We've tried to streamline file writing and make the options (single file, multi file easier).

New Features
We added a lot of features like tab colorization, new members to existing objects, Improved custom properties, template parser and more

KNOWN ISSUES / CLARIFICATIONS

Properties aren't shown for projects in the property menu. So you can't change the name or set some other options. This will be fixed ASAP.

Child objects (i.e. columns) aren't shown by default and it's hard to find out how to turn them back on. Toggle this button in schema explorer



You can RUN or TEST a template. If you RUN it the schema explore will allow you to check multiple objects. If you TEST it you can *select* only one.

Backward compatibility - our goal is 100% backward compatibility w/ 2005.13 for final release. In this beta it's broken in a few places. If you template won't compile send it to us a support@apexsql.com and we'll update it.

The help file isn't updated. I'm working on it! It should be ready soon.

This app. hasn't been tested much - expect bugs. We'll put this throught the ringer before the official release though.


ROADMAP

We plan another beta release next week that should be feature complete. Another after this that should be a bug fix release. With each new release we plan to add more templates. In approx 3 weeks we'll post our Online Template Library for template posting and sharing.

We'll announce new versions of Beta on News blog and the Support Forum.

COMMUNITY APPRECIATION

Anyone who posts meaningful feedback on our forum (beta testing, bugs, comments, suggestions etc) get's a free copy of the product. If you post templates we'll offer a free version as well as probably other things, including ApexSQL Gear. I'd love to run some contests for cash and other prizes once the Template Library is up.



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posted by Brian Lockwood on Thursday, July 03, 2008