What's new in VB Watch v2

VB Watch v2 is the current release of the Visual Basic 6.0 debugging, testing, profiling and error handling tool. There are two editions: Standard and Enterprise. Standard Edition is for profiling and adding error handlers. Enterprise Edition provides advanced features.

Latest improvement

Support for Windows Vista released in VB Watch v2.0.10 in August 2007.

New features in v2

Stand-alone or add-in. Execute VB Watch as a stand-alone tool or an add-in. Profile, Debug and Protect outside the VB IDE.

Console automates instrumentation of one or more projects. Supports batch processing. (Enterprise Edition)

Profiler enhancements

Graphs: View timings and execution counts in bar and pie graphs.
Flow chart: view timings and execution counts in call tree format.
View source with profiling results as color-coded HTML. Printable.
More robust profiling for long sessions (.pfd file allows 5x more data in 2 GB limit).
Print results. No need to export for printing.
Ignore specific code lines with filters. Define critical code and view coverage results separately.
Enhanced support for project groups (vbg) , IIS projects and "Retained in memory" projects.
Generate HTML/CHM reports with charts and source code. (Enterprise Edition)
Export full data to Excel for deeper analysis or macro processing. (Enterprise Edition)
Rename and join sessions.

Protector enhancements

Better error reports: Screenshot dump, data encryption, file zip.
Option for user to "Always ignore" a run-time error.
Option for end-users to gracefully collapse the call stack, canceling the failed job but restarting from a no error state.
Protect projects that have no user interface (redistributable is .dll instead of .ocx).
Protect IIS projects.
No need to distribute .obj file any more.
Define multiple addresses as recipients of error reports.
Auto-increment version number of original project.

Debugger completely redesigned with enhancements (Enterprise Edition)

Monitor public variables.
Monitor memory use.
Remote debugging at client site via TCP/IP.
Source code pane to track execution and set breakpoints at runtime.

Other enhancements

Select modules and procedures to instrument.
Destination folder control. Produce instrumented project in any folder.
Execute default action after compilation.
Improved user interface and inline help.
Better integration with VB IDE. View selected source location in VB from Profiler, Protector and Debugger.

Screenshots — view the new look and features in action.

Upgrade

VB Watch editions have changed. VB Watch v2 now comes in two editions:

Standard Edition, including Protector and Profiler.
Enterprise Edition, including Debugger, Console and the following Profiler features: reports and data export.

Important! v2 Standard Edition does not include Debugger even though it was part of v1 Suite.

Upgrade prices

Upgrade prices in US dollars	Single user	Team (5-user)	Site license
Version upgrade to VB Watch v2 Standard Edition
from v1 Profiler, Protector or Debugger, single user	$249	-	-
from VB Watch Suite v1, single user	$199	-	-
Version upgrade to VB Watch v2 Enterprise Edition (to Team/Site)
from any VB Watch v1 single user license	-	$799	$5290
from VB Watch Suite v1 team license	-	$599	$4890

Other upgrades: Please inquire.

Order form

Order the upgrade from Kagi. This is a special discount order form.

Upgrades from v1 site license. If you have a v1 site license, please contact us for upgrade pricing. Please notice the updated site license terms: "A site license covers any number of users in a single organization within a radius of 3 miles (5 km). This area is referred to as the Site. In addition, employees of the organization are allowed to use the Software outside the Site on their portable and home computers in either of the following cases: the employee either works solely at home, or the employee works at the Site a minimum of one day/week. Independent contractors of the organization may use the Software at the Site but not at other locations. The site license allows use via a computer network, provided that unlicensed use is not possible."

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