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January 2008

Visustin v5.01
First maintenance release. Some bug fixes for C#, XSLT and Editor. Version history

Project Analyzer v8.1.02
First bug fix update since initial release in March 2007. A couple of minor fixes.

November 2007

Draw and edit flow charts with Visustin v5
Draw flow charts — or generate them from your source code! Visustin v5 is a tool that visualizes your programs as flow charts. In addition to automated flowcharting, the built-in Visustin Editor lets you draw and edit flow charts manually. Design complex systems. Understand legacy projects. Document decision processes and workflows. The new Visustin v5 can run fully automated flowcharting jobs. You can integrate flowcharting as a part of your application's build process to keep technical documentation always up-to-date.

August 2007

VB Watch v2.0.10 runs on Windows Vista
Support for Windows Vista has been added to VB Watch, the error handling, profiling and debugging tool for Visual Basic 6.

June 2007

Analyze C# code with CodeSMART 2007
Review your C# solution for dead code, optimization flaws and coding standard infringements. Set User Interface standards. Enforce commenting standards. Find references. Write better code faster with this Visual Studio .NET productivity add-in.

April 2007

Ecological software development
How to develop software in an ecological way? Cut development costs and save the Earth.

March 2007

Print VB code with Project Analyzer v8.1
Print your Visual Basic source code in color and in multiple columns. Analyze Office 2007 VBA code. Find recursive procedures. Diagram your VB programs with Visio 2007.

February 2007

Visustin v4.03 exports to Visio 2007
Visustin can now export flow charts and UML style activity diagrams to the new Microsoft Visio 2007.

January 2007

Optimize string handling in VB6 - Part II [article]
Make your Visual Basic apps process text fast as lightning. Part II of this article dives deep into the performance of the VB6 String functions. We learn the functions to use and the ones to avoid. We also learn how to call the Windows Unicode API functions and how to build really, really huge strings without crashing our VB6 apps.

User Interface bug tests [article]
Test your Windows applications for common bugs in the User Interface (UI). This article shows 10 ways to find nasty bugs.

VB InStr [article]
InStr is a powerful VB string function. It's the perfect way to search and test strings in robust Visual Basic applications. This article shows how to call InStr to perform advanced text processing tasks quickly. The article also discusses case insensitivity, vbTextCompare, Option Compare Text and InStr related bugs.

Lower euro prices: Save 6% in euros
Save 6% off all Aivosto software in euros. Due to recent strengthening of the euro currency, you now get everything for less euros. Save €24 on Visustin Pro, €48 on Project Analyzer Enterprise and €48 on VB Watch Enterprise. This 6% is on top of a 4% decrease in November, making it -10% in total. The price decrease is effective on 1/1/2007.

November 2006

Visustin v4 builds UML style Activity Diagrams
Visustin shows your code as activity diagrams and flow charts. The new version flowcharts 29 programming languages, including Visual Studio 2005, assembler, Clipper, LotusScript, PowerScript, PureBasic, Python, REALbasic and Visual FoxPro. Visustin exports flow charts to PowerPoint and Word and creates Visio diagrams automatically.

RegExpr for VB/VBA: New lower price
Use regular expressions in Visual Basic 6.0. RegExpr for VB adds powerful string search and replace capabilities to VB6. New price: $99 (was $129).

Euro customers get 4% off all Aivosto software
Save 4% in euros on all Aivosto software. Due to recent currency fluctuations, all euro prices have gone down by 4%. Now you save €17 on Visustin Pro and €33 on Project Analyzer Enterprise Edition.

September 2006

August 2006

CodeSMART G2 new low prices
Now it's a great time to invest in a Visual Studio add-in that will pay back many times. CodeSMART G2 is now only $189 (was $249). The CodeSMART G2 PACK is down to $295 only (was $349). G2 is a Visual Studio .NET add-in and the PACK covers both VB6 and Visual Studio .NET. With CodeSMART you code faster and smarter in all of C#, C++ and VB.

Project Analyzer tutorial in Finnish pdf
The Project Analyzer tutorial is now available in the Finnish language.
Project Analyzerin käyttöopas on nyt luettavissa myös suomeksi. Opettele analysoimaan ja parantelemaan Visual Basic -ohjelmiasi.

April 2006

March 2006

Free VB analysis service updated
We will analyze your VB application free of charge. The free analysis offer has been updated to include more reports, such as dead code statistics and file dependency reports.

February 2006

Project Analyzer v8 analyzes VB 2005
Visualize your VB system with Enterprise Diagrams and Visio. Find reusable subsystems, bad non-cohesive classes, 'out' parameters, unnecessary ByRef, unset function return values, variables never written, unused Type fields, dead Enum constants, ... or use the 180 software metrics it reports on your code.

Visustin v3.1 connects with Project Analyzer
Visustin lets you flowchart VB functions directly from Project Analyzer. Just press Shift+F5 in Project Analyzer to run Visustin.

Save memory [article]
Make your programs use less memory without sacrificing their functionality. This article shows a number of tricks to preserve RAM while your program runs.

December 2005

CodeSMART G2
CodeSMART adds support for Visual Studio 2005.

March 2005

CodeSMART 2005
Productivity add-in for VB6 and Visual Studio .NET.

February 2005

Visustin v3 creates large flow charts
Create flow charts for ASP, JSP, PHP and Fortran. Full file visualization for all languages. Bulk flowchart. Export to Visio 2002/2003. Save as Visio document. Robust large chart functionality with zoom, overview panel and mouse wheel. Save as GIF, HTML+GIF and MHT.

Dead code detection and removal [article]
Increase quality, decrease files and save money by removing unused, dead code.

October 2004

Legacy code analysis
Cross-references, call trees, called-by lists, flowcharts and metrics are useful techniques for understanding existing legacy applications.

Counting the statements
To measure the size of an application and to evaluate the work done, count the statements, not the lines.

September 2004

VBA Plug analyzes Visual Basic for Applications
VBA Plug enables Project Analyzer to read Office VBA code.

SQLifter for VB6
SQLifter finds the SQL in a Visual Basic 6.0 project. Understand how your VB6 system uses SQL databases. View the exact SQL used. View the SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE locations. Determine where table X is being used in VB. Track down the use of tables and views.

June 2004

ClearSQL released. Edit, format and analyze Oracle PL/SQL scripts.

February 2004

Eval 1.01 is available at a lower new price and with updated license terms.

RegExpr 1.12 is available at a lower new price and with a performance boost.

Visustin v2 exports flow charts to Visio
The new version exports diagrams to Visio and saves images as EMF, WMF or HTML. It can flowchart Perl, T-SQL, PL/SQL and Ada. Other new features include Print Preview and multi-procedure visualization.

January 2004

How not to optimize in Visual Basic
Optimizing Visual Basic code can be fun or tedious, depending on the way you look at it. Here are some pitfalls to avoid when optimizing.

December 2003

August 2003

July 2003

Studio Complete works with Visual Studio .NET 2003
If you have an older version, read the Studio Complete web page for the trick to enabled it for version 2003.

March 2003

Visustin v1.2 gets new languages
The new version adds flow charts for Pascal/Delphi and COBOL, and introduces many smaller improvements.

Refactoring tools
Refactoring means modifying existing source code in a structured and incremental way. This article suggests tools for refactoring.

Project manager's toolbox
Reduce development time. Increase team communication. Reuse and modify existing code. Create optimized programs. Enforce standards. Ensure covering tests. Produce complete and correct documentation. Manage maintenance efforts. This article shows how Aivosto tools can help you achieve these tasks.

February 2003

ActiveXplorer v4 adds .NET support
Analyze binary files, COM libraries and .NET assemblies. Inspect unknown libraries. Generate HTML Help docs for your own components - no need for manual writing! Review file dependencies and registry entries.

January 2003

Project Analyzer v6.2 ensures proper clearing of object variables and adds a number of other code review rules. The Project Graph add-in now displays form show trees and control/data flow graphs.

December 2002

RegExpr v1.10
Optimized version of the regular expressions module.

November 2002

Writing comments in Visual Basic code
Comments are an ideal way to document source code. We present a lightweight comment format that is easy to learn, clear to read and powerful in describing procedures and modules. It also allows automatic document generation by a source code analyzer.

Optimize string handling
String handling in Visual Basic is slow if done the wrong way. You can add significant performance to string operations by following a few easy tricks.

Regular expressions - An introduction
Regular expressions are a pattern matching standard for string parsing and replacement. Originally missing in Visual Basic, regular expressions are now available for most VB and VBA versions.

September 2002

Restructuring Visual Basic code
You can greatly improve the quality of existing code by restructuring it. This article shows how to arrange code in logical modules and classes, group related functions and data together, and use scope rules to achieve better legibility and maintainability.

Project Analyzer v6.1.05 adds functionality to the Project Graph add-in. Project Graph now allows you to write documents with great flexibility. Save the graphs as bitmap files or metafiles, or copy & paste them to your favorite word processor.

August 2002

May 2002

Studio Complete released. Coding turbo for Visual Studio .NET. This add-in completes code as you write it.

March 2002

CodeSMART 2001 FixPack 4 available for download, including several fixes.

November 2001

EasyPatch 2001 squeezes your updates. Generate and distribute updated files as small patches. The new EasyPatch tool makes patch file generation quick and painless. (discontinued in 2003)

September 2001

Project Analyzer v5.4.03 Enterprise Edition adds 20 new checks in VB.NET Compatibility Check.

May 2001

CodeSMART 2001 gets lots of new features.

April 2001

March 2001

Project Analyzer Enterprise Edition comes as both team and site license. Make your EXEs small by removing the unnecessary bits automatically.

January 2001

EasyAPI lets you call the Windows API like a pro. (discontinued later)

VB Friend 2.0 adds features to write more code in less time. Complete missing code, auto-correct, backup, and get more desktop space.

ActiveXplorer 1.1 adds ActiveX file analysis, document generation, backup, and scripting. Escape from DLL Hell today!

November 2000

Aivosto releases major web site face lift.

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