BimlExpress 2020 R1 Release Notes
Significant changes between BimlExpress 2019 R1 and BimlExpress 2020 R1
BimlExpress
- Fixed issue with initial menu items not working after first click.
- Fixed bug where external file change would update active window rather than the correct file, if the edited file was not active.
- Fixed bug where sometimes the active document could have its contents replaced with the contents of a different edited document.
- Fix for a race condition that could cause BimlExpress to crash if files are opened very rapidly.
- Fix for issue where sometimes a file would not track as dirty and would not be able to be saved in the UI.
- Enable BimlStudio licensees to use their third party components in BimlExpress.
2019 Visual Studio Support
- Improved background load of VS extension to get rid of slow down warning message.
- Removed following warning: "This extension was not loaded because it uses deprecated synchronous autoload APIs" when starting BimlExpress in VS 16.3 or later.
- Solved issue where the first "previously open" code editor does not render correctly on startup.
SSIS
- Fixed issue in
ScriptComponents
where they were not emitting the right Version number, causing build errors in SSIS. - Added Direction property to
OLEDB Source
parameters. - Fixed a typo where the word "will" was displayed as "WILL" in a few object descriptions.
- Improved logging for all components, connectionmanagers and containers.
- Fixed bug where
SsisDataTypeOverride
properties were not being used in column nodes. - Fixed bug where
ExportColumn Task
columns had an invalid reference id. - Fixed casing issue on emission of VersionGUID for SSIS Projects
- Fixed issue where
Flat File
definitions did not support the use of brace-wrapped shorthand as in the SSDT designer. For example: {CRLF} in place of /r/n - Fixed bug in
AdoNetConnection
,AnalysisServices
,ExcelConnection
,OdbcConnection
,OleDbConnection
,OracleConnection
andSqlServerPdwConnection
nodes whereRetainSameConnection
property was not being correctly emitted. - Added support for
Teradata ODBC
provider - Added root guard to XSD parsing to prevent root_ID column from being added to simple
XML Source
column collections. - Improved
SMOConnection
support. - Fixed bug that prevented packages with
CDCSplitter
components from building.