SBP intros XLogViewer .NET development tool

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: Software Business Partners, a software outsourcing company based in Romania, announced the release of version 2.0 of XLogViewer .NET Development Tool, a complete logging and tracing solution targeted at .NET applications. The new version of XLogViewer features many improvements including an important update to its programming interface for the primary .NET languages: VB.NET and C#.

The installer has been improved to deploy the software in a more intuitive manner, which helps developers better find their way when looking for the installed files and resources. The new installer uses a bootstrap executable to automatically download and install the .NET Framework and the other prerequisite programs (if they not already already present); this makes deployment simple and straightforward.

New users are going to get faster up-to-speed with the product with the new integrated documentation. It explains the main user interface options, command line parameters, and more detailed things, such as the programming interface (which can be VB.NET, C#, or any other .NET supported language). The VB.NET interface is targeted at productivity, while C# can be used when more control is needed for programming the library.

A test application has been included in the package, allowing programmers to better understand what happens when errors are encountered, how does the logging library handle them, and what is written in the log file. The test application, available in the C# and VB.NET programming languages, is also a good way to generate logs that can be then analyzed by XLogViewer, to familiarize developers with the overall process.

The logging library now supports better integration with the Visual Studio development environment and with the main .NET programming languages - VB.NET and C#. Debugging applications that rely on XLogViewer has become faster by instructing the debugger to skip irrelevant VB.NET and C# code.

A new features  which is the ability to sort the log entries not only by time, but also by the various other details included in the logging process was also introduced in the current version.

Prior to this release, SBP Romania made a beta version available to its outsourcing customers; the feedback gained from the outsourcing partners helped build a very stable release.