TDP Robot version history - The Dummy Programmer

Read text file task: minor bug fixes in datatable columns creation, added possibility to manually define the columns of the outgoing recordset
File system event: added new dynamic data FullPathName, FileName, FileNameWithoutExtension, FileExtension, ChangeType
New tasks:
- Sql Server bulk copy task
- File system task
Job Editor: some bug fixes on copy & paste of objects

Note that the xml files containing persisted jobs, created with old versions of TDP.Robot are not compatible with this new version!

Release date: September 15, 2021

This version adds:

JobEngine: added Destroy method to interface IPluginInstance, in order to correctly dispose plugins when JobEngine service stops.
Bug fix: Write text file didn’t add header to text file
Bug fix: Service start event configuration form didn’t properly check input values

Release date: August 27, 2021

Here is what’s new:

New events:
- Memory event
- CPU event
New tasks:
- REST Api task
- Zip task
- Unzip task
Jobs disk serialization:
- fields decorated with “NonSerialized” attribute are no longer serialized on disk
Task SqlServerCommandTask:
- Modified to manage parameters of type XML
Bug fixes:
- SqlServerCommandTask: fix to use varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)
- Item Name in workspace area of Job Editor not updated when changed in config window
- UploadFile and Downloadfile fail in case of non existent folder
- Xml serialization / deserialization skipped null fields which led to further errors in the configuration form of some jobs
- Job engine service didn’t create log (missing log4net.config file)

Release date: July 17, 2021

This version adds:

Jobs data persistence in XML instead of using binary serialization
Added the following tasks: System events, Read text file task, Write text file task
Some minor bug fixes