Work In Progress

== 25 Nov 2009; r276

• uri encoding fix
• support IDictionary<,>
• optimised constructor calls

== 09 Oct 2009: r274

• flags enums support; ushort support
• better custom attribute support
• WCF endpoint configuration support

Releases

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16 Jul 2009: r262

• Visual Studio support (early)

01 Jul 2009: r261

• BREAKING CHANGE: protogen using wrong type for fixed-length ints
• VB support
• Automatic case handling in .proto ($fixCase - C# only at the moment)
• Namespace fixes
• BUGFIX: assembly resolution from attribute
• Allow unknown enums to carry through without raising an exception; stored in the

extension object if supported, else drops

02 Jun 2009: r255

• Packed encoding support for lists, arrays, etc
• Support for packed and deprecated from .proto
• Updated protoc 2.1

22 May 2009

• Improved support for namespaces when using multiple .proto files;
• added -ns:{ns} to specify a default namespace (used when there is no package)
• added -p:import={imports} to specify namespaces to import ("using")
• fixed bug with default namespace

02 Apr 2009

• Allow data-member offset in Silverlight
• Fix bug deserializing nested list/enumerables
• More RPC prep
• ProtoGen now uses exe path correctly

26 Mar 2009

• Early (not final) draft of working RPC, including C# 3.0 extension / lambda usage.
• Beginnings of major refactor to split the model from attributes
• Added support for multiple services on http endpoint

02 Mar 2009

• Strong naming of CF20/CF35/Mono

19 Feb 2009

• Better support for Specified; non-public; get-only; instance

16 Feb 2009

• Use Reflection.Emit to access fields (rather than reflection) when available
• Introduce callback interface (not yet integrated)
• Add TryReadLengthPrefix to public API (for async network usage)

13 Feb 2009: r230

• Support {name}Specified pattern
• xslt changes for above (includes ComponentModel etc); general xslt tidy
• Better trace info when deserialization explodes (in exception data)
• Complain if ProtoInclude conflicts with an existing tag

09 Feb 2009: r225

• Fixed inheritance issue when a property (or list) is defined a subtype of a contract; deserializes starting

from the highest contract ancestor (previously started from member type)

• Consider abstract types as contracts (allows for abstract contract ancestors for above change)
• Fixed inheritance issue when deserializing via Serializer
• Removed ProtoContract from Extensible - breaks derived classes

10 Dec 2008: r219

• Allow offset via attribute for WCF (data-member) usage; allows compatibility between WCF client/LINQ server
• Thread safety of Build() method (per-type lock, with zero-lock short-circuit once built)
• Workaround for mono compiler (generics) bug; verifies constraint at runtime rather than compile
• Integrated mono/nant into build script and zip

25 Nov 2008: r214

• ProtoGen: simpler field names; default unspecified field-type to double (not int)
• Fixed private class issue on CF 2.0

21 Nov 2008: r212

• Implicit fields skips delegates (including event-backers) and NonSerialized
• Detect CF 2.0 non-public runtime bug and offer advice

20 Nov 2008: r211

• Allow (optional) implicit serialization of fields (like BinaryFormatter) or the entire public API
• Make QuickStart customer/contact public for CF 2.0 security glitch
• Bugfix with inheritance (affected all except MemoryStream)

11 Nov 2008: r202

• Minor buffer / encoding optimisations
• .proto parser (ProtoGen)
• Support dictionary / keyvaluepair
• Buildkit
• Start of RPC stack

13 Oct 2008: r177

• Allow creation via non-public constructors, and allow Merge on objects without any parameterless constructor
• Clarified error message for (failed) creation without a parameterless constructor
• Support fields in addition to properties
• Add quotes to string-based defaults (waiting on escape clarification)

06 Oct 2008: r172

• Allow negative enum values
• Changed GetPassThru to side-step Mono compiler issue (note compiler bug fixed in mono 2.0)
• QuickStart sample begun; SubStream re-introduced for NetworkStream sample

"WithLengthPrefix" methods added to assist with sockets-based usage

18 Sep 2008: r164

• DateTime/TimeSpan support for tick-level precision and/or Fixed64 encoding
• Moved WCF unit tests to non-default port (false positive failures due to conflicts)
• Fixed Int64 encoding bug (whoops!)
• Allow tag inference (comparable to WCF behaviour, opt-in only)
• Removed class/new constraints for most Serializer methods
• Support direct serialization of IList<T>/T[]/IEnumerable<T>+Add(T) objects
• Added global default for InferTagFromName
• Enabled WCF serialization of list/array
• Primatives / string / etc can now be serialized directly (without an entity)

20 Aug 2008: r153

Oops - a bit of a change gap...

• Refactored property implementation for performance
• Support for multiple readers for a single property
• Various .proto emitter fixes
• Support for DateTime etc as "bcl" messages
• Uses optimistic length guess (rather than full length calculation) for sub-messages
• Support for full streaming (IEnumerable

  <t>

  /Add rather than IList

  <t>

  )
• Re-worked array/list to peek for next item (replaces naïve from r90)
• Multi-byte utf8 fixes
• Various other fixes

24 Jul 2008: r90

• Performance; "workspace" buffer now always 0-based; uses lightweight recursion check up to threshold; length prediction streamlined; encode now writes to stream (not workspace)
• Support for single-dimension arrays (naïve implementation)
• Support for Compact Framework 2.0 & 3.5
• Support for extension fields encoded as groups (includes dropping data for inextensible objects)
• Fixed handling of type-init / dynamic-invoke exceptions
• Code tidied as per code analysis / source analysis

23 Jul 2008: r72

• Support for deserializing known sub-object fields encoded using groups (data is serialized as length-prefixed; not supported for extension fields)
• Support for extension fields
• Recursion detection when serializing

22 Jul 2008: r53

• Optimised field lookup during deserialization
• Wcf example
• Silverlight example
• Support for enums
• Compatibility tweaks (C# 2 / mono / .NET 2.0 / VS2005 / Sliverlight)