CodeConverter/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to the code converter will be documented here.

#5.7.0 - TBC

• Update to .NET Standard 2.0
• Convert solution and project files
• Added convert and copy to clipboard into options

VB -> C#

• Convert WithEvents/Handles
• Convert Handles and WithEvents similarly to the VB compiler
• Handle expressions in Select Case
• Ensure all parts of a partial class have the partial modifier
• Handle missing optional arguments
• Increase number of default global imports for web conversion
• Default properties now converted

C# -> VB

• Fix DeclarationExpressions without a type throwing exception
• Convert Throw Expressions to multi-line lambda function
• Convert properties with no accessors
• Fix error converting ObjectCollectionInitializerSyntax within object initializer
• Escape predefined if they are used for the name of declaration

#5.6.3 - 09/04/2018

• Improve support for sub-class snippets through the website
• Best effort conversion with errors as comments inline
• Tidy up duplicate import/using statements

VB -> C#

• Using statements and array initialization improvements
• Convert select case expressions
• Fix for multi-parameter extension methods
• Convert single line void delegates
• Fix array initialization incorrect conversion bugs
• Convert operator overloads
• Overestimate when a method should be invoked with no parameters
• Remove global namespace in conversion
• Add Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices when convering an out parameter
• Support Erase and Redim Preserve
• Convert select case expressions
• Extend support for converting with blocks

C# -> VB

• Convert C# 7.0 features: "is pattern", throw and declaration expressions
• Convert expression bodies
• Fix to ensure Case Else always comes last in a Select statement
• Convert base class constructor call
• Fix convert char from integer cast
• Convert hex literals to hex literals (rather than just integers)
• Fix to avoid using "_" as a parameter name
• Fix for loop variable missing declaration and initialization
• Convert declare to extern
• Fix to improve accuracy of adding AddressOf
• Convert block syntax
• Convert empty statement
• Fix to avoid single line if-else statement's conversion causing compilation error
• Fix to avoid delegate with no parameters throwing NullReferenceException

5.6.2 - 16/03/2018

VB -> C#

• Fix for change in logic when converting nested one-line if blocks
• Fix for loss of precision in arithmetic when using / operator
• Integer division and bit shifting now converted
• Is and IsNot operators now converted
• Narrowing and Widening conversion operators now converted
• Linq query syntax with no select clause now converted
• DirectCast operator now converted
• Shadows modifier now converted (to new)

C# -> VB

• Newline now appears before each attribute list
• Fix for new converting to Shadows - it now maps to Overloads

5.6.1 - 06/03/2018

• VSIX: Gets conversion off the UI thread to avoid it freezing
• VB -> C#: VB projects referencing other VB projects no longer error
• VB -> C#: XmlDoc comments now are correctly newline terminated

5.6 - 05/03/2018

Visual studio extension

• New commands added to convert whole solution/project at once
• Works reliably in VS2017
• Instead of copy to clipboard, opens result as Visual Studio window for quick viewing
• Writes summary to output window to explain what's happened
• Project context used for all conversions

VB -> C#

• Query expression syntax converted in simple cases
• Anonymous object creation converted
• Object initializer syntax converted
• Converts comments in the majority of cases (though with some formatting oddities)
• Now works on sub-method snippets
• Names now fully qualified where necessary
• Out parameters correctly converted

5.5 - 12/29/2017

• Move from Refactoring Essentials to a repository of its own
• Separate NuGet
• Separate VSIX
• Improvements on the VB side