Feature Focus: FusionDebug 2.0.1

What's New in 2.0.1

We're very excited to bring you FusionDebug 2.0.1, and we'd like to thank our users for the great suggestions and feedback they sent us - we truly appreciate it! Here's a quick rundown of what's new in 2.0.1

Improved Support for ColdFusion 8

FusionDebug now offers professional level debugging for all major versions of ColdFusion. We support CF6.1, CF7 and CF8.

Improved Breakpoint Support

We have spent a lot of time making our breakpoints fire wherever you place them. From CFRETURN tags right through to comments or white space. Set a breakpoint, stop the page and see exactly what is going on.

Source Code Lookups

We have extensively refined how FusionDebug looks up source code. We also now provide immediate feedback in the Breakpoints View about exactly which file on the server contains the breakpoint, or whether a server file could not be found.

We've completely redesigned the Mappings tab of the configuration dialog (which is now called Source Code Lookups) to make it easy to add lookups for all projects, and for specific Eclipse folders.

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These updates decrease the number of cases of breakpoints not firing, and decrease the number of time FusionDebug asks you to find a file manually. Read more...

Debug Perspective

We've added a FusionDebug Perspective, which collects together all the views you need to begin debugging ColdFusion applications. This removes the need to customize the Debug Perspective, and gets you up and running with FusionDebug faster.

Installer - Complete IDE Environment

Our new installer gives you a complete IDE environment, including Eclipse 3.2, CFEclipse 1.3 and FusionDebug 2.0.1. CFEclipse is a free powerful professional quality open source CF editor for Eclipse. CFEclipse and Eclipse will continue to work even after your FD trial period. This is In addition to the standard Eclipse Software Install/Update Manager package which can be installed directly within Eclipse from our website.

Server Configuration Wizard

We're also providing a Server Configuration Wizard which is capable of updating your ColdFusion/JRun server configuration file in order to allow ColdFusion to accept connections from FusionDebug. This makes setting up your configuration easier; of course, you're still free to edit this file by hand (and we provide comprehensive instructions on how to do this).

Inspect Expressions

Instead of creating watch expressions, it's now possible to highlight an expression in your code and have it immediately evaluated and displayed in a dialog box.

Icon changes

We've unified our use of the Red Bug icon FD Bug across the board: in dialogs, menus and documentation. This makes identifying FusionDebug components within Eclipse much easier.

Bug Fixes

We've also worked hard to eliminate the bugs which you reported to us from our 1.0.0 release.

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