What's New in 2012
Liquid XML Studio 2012
Includes New XML Data Mapper with step through debugger - many other new features and enhancements plus general performance and stability improvements.
Liquid Technologies have announced the availability of Liquid XML Studio 2012, which contains many new features and enhancements plus general performance and stability improvements. Liquid XML Studio 2012 extends and improves on the existing functionality by introducing other new tools and technologies that our users have requested in order to continue to make Liquid XML Studio the best value XML development environment available.
New Graphical XML Data Mapper
New Graphical XML Data Mapper allows you to easily convert XML data of different constructs.
New Silverlight 5 Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
The Developer Edition XML Data Binding wizard now provides code generation and Liquid Runtime support for Silverlight 5.
New Linux gcc 4.3.3 32bit C++ Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
The Developer Edition XML Data Binding wizard now provides code generation and Liquid Runtime support for Linux gcc 4.3.3 32bit C++.
New Linux gcc 4.4.4 64bit C++ Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
The Developer Edition XML Data Binding wizard now provides code generation and Liquid Runtime support for Linux gcc 4.4.4 64bit C++.
New Features
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| Graphical XML Data Mapper | Designer
Developer | - New Graphical XML Data Mapper allows you to easily convert XML data of different constructs
- Step through debugger
- Watch window
- Multiple data sources
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Enhancements Include
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| XML Studio | Designer
Developer | - Improved Project Support
- Improved Source Control integration for Visual Source Safe and Tortoise SVN
- Added W3C File caching for common schema
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| XSD Editor | Designer
Developer | - Improved Drag and Drop support
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| WSDL Editor | Designer
Developer | - Added WSDL 2.0 import and include support
- Improved WSDL 2.0 validation
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| XML Data Binding / Code Generation | Developer | - New Silverlight 5 Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
- New Linux gcc 4.3.3 32bit C++ Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
- New Linux gcc 4.4.4 64bit C++ Code Generation and Liquid Runtime
- Updated generated documentation
- Updated help documentation for Liquid Runtimes
- Added support for relative paths in Wizard
- Updated documentation for Wizard
- Removed support for .Net 1.1
- Fixed issues in SimpleViewer for optional items
- Fixed issues when UnknownElements is set in Serialization Context
- Fixed DTD handling of missing and empty entity refs
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| Large File Editor | All Editions | - Added XML formatting option
- Added well formed and schema validation
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Liquid XML Studio 2011 - Service Pack 1 (SP1)
New Features
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| WSDL 2.0 Graphical Editor | Designer
Developer | - New powerful WSDL 2.0 Graphical Editor
- Support for SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 W3C standards
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| Visual Studio | Designer
Developer | |
Enhancements Include
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| XSD Editor | All Editions
Starter – read only | - Resolved Key/Keyref issues
- Resolved issues in Documentation Generation
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| Designer
Developer | - Resolved issues in Import/Include Wizard
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| XML Editor | All Editions | - Enhanced Copy and Paste functionality
- Improved Format functionality
- Improved Unicode rendering and validation issues
- Resolved issues when DTDs are included in XML documents
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| Designer
Developer | - Enhanced Copy and Paste between Excel
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| WSDL Editor | Designer
Developer | - WSDL 1.1 now conforms to Basic Profile Schema
- Resolved WSDL 1.1 validation issues
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| Web Services Test Client | Designer
Developer | |
| All Editors | All Editions | - Added Show Start Page oprtion
- Resolved issue with fixed validation errors not clearing for error list
- Improved Intellisense
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| XML Diff | Designer
Developer | |
| XML Data Binding / Code Generation | Developer | - Liquid Runtime for Java no longer requires Xerces library as it uses standard JDK interface (Note: JDK1.3 is no longer supported)
- Extended Primitive types no generate as correct type instead of string
- Resolved issue with Any Type Namespaces in Liquid Runtimes for .NET
- Resolved issues running Liquid Runtimes for .NET under Mono
- Resolved issue generating unrequired duplicate file in multiple namespaces
- Resolved issues Base64 conversion and Hex conversion in Liquid Runtime for C++
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Liquid XML Studio 2011
New Features
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| XSLT Editor and Debugger | Designer
Developer | - New powerful XSLT Debugger that makes it possible to step through an XSLT stylesheet
- Support for XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 W3C standards
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| XQuery Editor and Debugger | Designer
Developer | - New powerful XQuery Debugger that makes it possible to step through an XQuery module or library file
- Support for the XQuery 1.0 W3C standard
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| XML Schema Documentation Generator | Designer
Developer | - New generation of HTML or Asp.Net web site documentation from an XML Schema (XSD) with searchable index
- New customizable template based documentation generation using XSLT templates
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| Large File Editor | All Editions | - New Liquid Large file editor makes it possible to open and edit extremely large file (> 4GB)
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| Data Binding /Code Generation | Developer | - New Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 Liquid Runtimes
- New Apple Mac OS X C++ Liquid Runtime
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Enhancements Include
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| XSD Editor | All Editions
Starter – read only | - Enhanced Documentation Window to support embedded XML
- Enhanced Global Component Navigator with search facility
- Resolved Tooltip issues
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| Designer
Developer | - Resolved Refactoring issues
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| XML Editor | All Editions | - New option to jump to schema definition of selected node in code
- Resolved issues when Importing Fast Infoset documents
- Added ability to format a selection
- Added ability to comment a code block
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| Designer
Developer | - Added ability to add a comment node in graphical view
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| WSDL Editor | Designer
Developer | - Resolved code sync highlight issues
- Resolved issue where documents get reformatted on load, WSDL can now be viewed in its raw original format
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| XHTML Editor | Designer
Developer | - Resolved issues with refreshing graphical view from code view
- Resolved issues with loading invalid documents
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| Web Services Test Client | Designer
Developer | - Enhanced login support with cookie based authentication
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| All Editors | All Editions | - Enhanced Error Window with ability to filter Errors
- Resolved issues with Intellisense
- Resolved issues in Find and Replace dialog
- Resolved issues with Bookmarks
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| Visual Studio | Designer
Developer | - Resolved file loading and saving issues
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| XML Data Binding / Code Generation | Developer | - Improved mulit-threading locking code in C++ generated code and Runtime
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Liquid XML Studio 2010 - Service Pack 1 (SP1)
New Features
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| Visual Studio | Designer
Developer | - Visual Studio 2010® now supported - Plug-ins for the graphical XSD Editor, XPath viewer and Web Services Test Client
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| Data Binding /Code Generation | Developer | - New Visual C++ 10.0 Liquid Runtimes
- New .Net 4.0 Liquid Runtimes for C# and VB.Net
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| XSD Editor | Designer
Developer | - Visual Schema Agent to visualise the structure of inter dependent XSD files – navigate to a related schema with a single mouse click
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| XML Editor | All Editions | - Build the XPath expression directly from the element within the XML document
- Convert XML documents to their Canonical form
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| All Editors | All Editions | - Improved Find and replace including find in files - allows searching across folders and multiple files that are related through schema inclusion
- Bookmarks – add/remove directly from within a document and navigate between them
- Shell-out to external tools to work with XML documents from within Liquid XML Studio
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Enhancements
| Module | Edition | Feature Description |
| XSD Editor | All Editions
Starter – read only | - XSD files loaded without reformatting – XML can be viewed in its raw original format
- New search facility within the XSD global component locator to simplify navigation in large and complex Schema
- New menu option to graphically display XSD cardinalities, making the visualisation more intuitive
- Resolved Derived By Issue in XSD editor where derived property can now be changed
- Resolved order that XSD attributes are written out, which caused problems when comparing files created previously
- Resolved Inconsistent Validation results for XSD when validating via XML
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| Designer
Developer | - XML sample builder now allows namespace mapping giving more control over resulting XML document format
- Sample XML can now be created directly from an XSD node, simplifying the creation of sample documents
- New facility to print a single node or selections of XSD nodes from either design or source views
- Resolved Refactor Rename issue with recursive items which was not working when elements were defined in terms of themselves
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| XML Editor | All Editions | - Many improvements to XML Intellisense - E.g. copes with <any> element and attribute, better support for substitution groups, improved autoclose elements, attribute values
- New facility to print a selection of an XML document from either design or source views
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| Designer
Developer | - New menu option to go to the XSD definition from an XML element which assists in debugging and validating XML documents
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| WSDL Editor | Designer
Developer | - Enhanced to handle external elements such as security attributes, descriptions etc
- Improved Intellisense bringing it up to the standard already provided in the other Editors
- Improved context menus improving the ease of use of the graphical editor
- Resolved WSDL Editor not detecting changes to SOAP1.2 attributes, which were made, but not reflected in the Design or Source view
- Resolved issue with <any> types
- Resolved issue in WSDL Editor with property changes not getting set into document
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| Web Services Test Client | Designer
Developer | - Now supports xsd:Import and wsdl:import which allows testing of complex web services that import external schemas and WSDL files
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| All Editors | All Editions | - Improved selection of Settings for XML Studio setup options – allows more control over Intellisense, formatting in each editor
- Error messages re-ordered so errors for the current file are at the top of the error window during validation
- Updated & Improved “getting started” documentation - speeds the familiarisation process for new users of Liquid XML Studio
- Fixed selection/highlight issue when code is folded
- Resolved Printer selection Issue – any installed printer can now be selected
- Resolved Printer selection Issue
- Resolved issue with text editors clearing highlights when scrolling
- Resolved title issue for loading URLs with no filename
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| XPath | All Editions | - Resolved issue in XPath window firing unnecessary events
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| Visual Studio | Designer
Developer | - Resolved Memory corruption Issue in Visual Studio plug-in which sometimes caused Visual Studio to fail
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| Data Binding /Code Generation | Developer | - Resolved issue with VB.Net generated code writing http:' instead of http://
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Liquid XML Studio 2010
Starter Edition
Entry level IDE that is ideal for the Home or Educational user or light Business user, priced at only £65. Unlike some competing products it is licensed for commercial use.
WSDL Editor
This new feature, available in the Designer & Developer Editions, is a Graphical WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Editor which greatly simplifies the task of designing complex WSDL. Full syntax validation, drag and drop functionality combined with the visual layout makes this an essential tool for facilitating standards based communications.
Editor Views
All Editors now offer 3 windows - design, split and source code views which are synchronised in realtime as you edit and update. Thus making it far easier to edit and design.
Schema Library Agent
Available in all Editions, this new feature gives access to all the Schemas stored in the online Liquid Schema Library. Open the Schema you require and simply select the components you need. This greatly reduces the time taken to take on board new Schema Standards. The online Schema Library contains over 80 industry schemas and will readily accept new standards for upload.
XHTML Editor
With Liquid XML Studio XHTML Editor you can easily create, edit, test and validate XHTML documents. The editor is included in all editions of Liquid XML Studio.
Visual Studio 2010
The plugins available in the Designer & Developer Editions will also be supported in Visual Studio 2010 after its general release.
KEY & KEYREF Support
All Editions now provide Schema support for KEY & KEYREF elements which greatly assists linking nodes in a single document.
Windows 64 bit Support
For power users all Editions of Liquid XML Studio can now be run under x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
C# and Visual Basic .NET code generation for the .NET Compact Framework
The Developer Edition provides support for Windows CE devices (Mobile Phones and PDA’s) and is now included with code generation for C# and Visual Basic .NET for the .NET Compact Framework.
Visual C++ 64 bit Runtime
The Developer Edition XML Data Binding wizard now provides additional Project Files for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (9.0) 64 bit. This provides Royalty Free distribution of compiled code and the Liquid Runtime to end users on the 64 bit platform.
Improved Docking Support
All the windows can be re-docked and moved around giving you great flexibility and maximising the use of your workspace. They can be set as tabs or as fixed or floating panes.
Supported File Types
The editor has been extended to support additional file types. The full list of supported file types is:
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- DTD Schema (DTD)
- Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
- Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
- Text Files (TXT)
- W3C XML Schema (XSD)
- Web Service Definition Language (WSDL)
- XML Document (XML)
- XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)
- XML-Data Reduced (XDR)
- XQuery (XQUERY)
- XSL Transform (XSLT)
General Improvements
Along with the new features outlined above, existing features have also been enhanced and improved with functionality requested by our users.