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 and SqlServerPdwConnection nodes where RetainSameConnection 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.