Features List of SnapDevelop (PB Edition) 2019

This document introduces the new features in SnapDevelop (PB Edition) 2019.

Projects You Can Create

New Project Templates

You may open and edit a C# project that you created outside SnapDevelop (such as Visual Studio), or create new C# projects with any of the following templates:

• ASP.NET Core Web API with three options of sample code: Basic, .NET DataStore, and SqlModelMapper;
• Console App (.NET Core)
• Class Library (.NET Core)
• Class Library (.NET Standard)
• Shared Project
• xUnit Test (.NET Core)

New Project Items

You may open and edit a C# project item that you created outside SnapDevelop. You may create new C# project items of the following types:

• Class
• Interface
• Enum
• DataContext
• API Controller Class
• JSON
• Text
• XML
• Web Configuration File
• Service (.NET DataStore)
• Service (SqlModelMapper)

Signing Assemblies

You can sign the assemblies using either a Personal Information Exchange (pfx) key file (Windows 10 only) or a Strong Name Key (snk) file.

Productive Development

Theme Selection

Dark and light theme options are available for the IDE.

Code editor

SnapDevelop provides a high productivity code editor with the following features:

• Code fix
• Code refactoring such as extracting interface/method, renaming classes or class members
• Code colorizer
• Code auto completion
• Code diagnostic
• Code outlining
• Code navigation such as finding all references, go to implementation/go to definition, and navigation through history
• Format selected code
• Quick info
• Comment/uncomment selected lines
• Make selected text uppercase/lowercase

NuGet Package Support

Pre-installed Runtime Packages

The following runtime packages are automatically installed when you install SnapDevelop.

• SnapObjects.Data
• SnapObjects.Data.Oracle
• SnapObjects.Data.PostgreSql
• SnapObjects.Data.SqlServer
• SnapObjects.Data.Odbc
• SnapObjects.Data.AspNetCore
• PowerBuilder.Data
• PowerBuilder.Data.AspNetCore
• SnapDevelop.xUnit.Runner

NuGet Package Manager

The NuGet Package Manager included in SnapDevelop enables you to search, download, install, update, configure, and uninstall NuGet packages.

Merging NuGet Packages

If a NuGet package is already used in a solution, you can merge different versions of the NuGet package into one for the solution.

Generating NuGet Packages

After you create a .NET Standard/.NET Core Class Library project, you can directly generate NuGet packages from the project.

Debugging Tool

The following debugging features are available:

• Adding or removing breakpoints
• Viewing the call stack while in debugger; when changing the stack frame in the call stack window, the local and watch windows are refreshed simultaneously.
• Debugging multi-threaded applications; when changing to another thread while debugging, the local and watch windows are refreshed simultaneously.
• Continuing the debugging process when interrupted by exceptions
• Configuring the "Break When Thrown" exception settings
• Changing variable values during debugging for basic types of variables
• Refreshing the process when the debugger fails to calculate a value or the calculation is timed out
• Defining multiple environment variables for debug
• Debugging or stop debugging during a unit test
• Run to Cursor
• Step Into, Step Over, and Step Out
• Debug context menu in appropriate locations

Unit Testing

• xUnit Test
• Running multiple unit test sessions simultaneously
• Setting Fact and Theory attributes
• Performing searches during a unit test
• Providing the total number of tests passed, failed and skipped

Source Control

• Integrate with Subversion (SVN)

  • The prerequisite is to install TortoiseSVN 1.9 or later;

  • Supported:

    Adding project to local and remote repositories;

    Adding, updating, or committing files and folders;

    Branching and merging;

    Switching to a different URL;

    Resolving conflicts and editing text conflicts;

    Showing or reverting changes;

    Locking and releasing locks

  • Unsupported:

    Using SVN through a proxy;

    Checking out a solution from the remote repository.

• Integrate with Git

  • Supported:

    Loading file statuses;

    Adding project to Git source control;

    Managing local and remote repositories and accounts;

    Adding, staging, pushing and committing;

    Cloning local and remote repositories;

    Syncing, pulling, fetching, pushing code to the server;

    Adding or editing push and pull repositories.

  • Unsupported yet:

    Using Git through a proxy;

    Editing or resolving conflicts that occur during pull or commit;

    Branching-related features;

    Tagging;

    Selecting files/items to commit or push

Deployment

Two deployment options are currently supported: web deploy and file system publish.

• The Web deploy option deploys applications using Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6;
• The file system publish option simply copies the files in the application to a specific folder.

Integration with PowerBuilder

When you select to add a new "C# Projects (Web API, etc.)" target to a PowerBuilder workspace, SnapDevelop will be launched from PowerBuilder IDE for the creation and development of the C# project. When you create a new C# project in SnapDevelop, you can select to add the project to the PowerBuilder workspace currently open in PowerBuilder IDE. The project structure will stay synchronized between SnapDevelop and PowerBuilder IDE.