This Week's Build: SDK

Most of the work over the past couple of weeks has been finishing the new negative query feature and bug fixes, although we did sneak in a couple of new features as well:

• A new Prompt for Subtables option in the Add Database dialog of the Configuration Utility allows you to indicate whether you are prompted for subtable names when multiple relationships are found between tables or a table has a self-join. While this is turned on by default, you may wish to turn it off if you don't plan on dealing with multiple relations and don't want to be prompted for them every time you refresh the data dictionary.
• A new Include Database in Header report option adds the database name to the report header. This is handy if you have multiple data sources and want to show which one a particular report run is for.
• Opening a project in the Configuration Utility makes it the default one. This still also happens when you close it, but now you don't have to close the Configuration Utility to make it the default. This is handy if you switch between multiple projects a lot like we here at Stonefield do.
• You no longer get an unexpected error but instead a warning message if you try to report on two tables that aren't related in a very large (i.e. hundreds of tables) data dictionary. (In technical terms, we prevent blowing the call stack when the recursive code trying to find a relationship gets too deep.)
• You can no longer resize the Reports Explorer window so small that the reports list is hidden.
• The Registration dialog now gives you a warning if you click the Print button without first filling in the serial number, and the prompt in the dialog tells you that value is needed.
• The hotkey for the Advanced Layout function in Step 5 of the Quick Report Wizard was changed from "V" to "D" so it doesn't conflict with the Preview function.
• Renaming a database added to the Configuration Utility through an OLE DB provider no longer causes a new database with the original name to be added to the data dictionary when you refresh.
• Renaming a table, subtable, or virtual table when you have more than one data dictionary table no longer results in records for both the old and new names.