Computator.NET v2.3.0 Official Release

Computator.NET v2.3.0 - New installer, performance and stability

Major changes

• One installer for both NET40 and NET461 builds (#62)
• New installer based on Wix with splash screen working on Windows XP, bootstrapping (#19, #26, #97) (removed dependency on InstallShield)

Fixed bugs

• Replaced creating consolas and cambria fonts by getting them from private font collection (hopefully it will finally resolve all missing fonts issues) (#99)
• Missing fonts runtime resolution will enable user to install all missing fonts (760d950, 8e49437)
• Fixed potentially critical issue with permissions to remove corrupted settings file (b1f5abb)
• Fixed bug which caused rectangle method to return the same results as trapezoidal method (8b9ec1c)
• Fixed issue with newline in scripting (299052f)
• Fixed exe shortcut icon looking small on Vista Sp2 (#93)
• UWP: More graphical assets should provide better UX on high DPI scenarios (0fe5ae0)

Performance

• Improved greatly startup performance (partly because of less resources to load (new localization architecture) but also new version of Unity container)
• Cleanup of unnecessary resources (makes views loading faster)
• Moved away from fat resx WinForms designer based localization architecture (makes views loading faster) (#89)
• Optimized the way scripting examples are restored

Quality

• Migrated to new csproj format (.NET Core SDKs)
• Introduced Cake automated builds
• Continous integration and continous delivery with publishing artifacts on AppVeyor and Travis CIs (#83)
• Computator.NET.Core should not reference Computator.NET.Charting (#51)
• All desktop specific logic (except Charting) has been moved to Computator.NET.Desktop project (executables are now just tiny wrappers)
• On Unix moved to Mono 5.4.x
• Refactoring: whole autocomplete / functionInfo / functions.xml area needs serious refactoring and restructuring (#77)