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29th June 2010

ESL 10.10 for Windows is now available and has been tested with the following versions of Windows;

Windows 7 (32bit)
Windows 7 (64bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32bit)
Windows Server 2008 (64bit)
Windows Server 2003 (32bit)
Windows Vista Business SP2 (32bit)
Windows XP professional SP3 (32bit)

We have included some bug fixes and "ESL Edit" an alternative to Windows Notepad. Please do let us know if you would like any additional features.

As usual, for more information, please see the Release Notes.

30th March 2010

ESL 10.10 for Windows is undergoing final testing with the following versions of Windows;

Windows 7 (32bit)
Windows 7 (64bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32bit)
Windows Server 2008 (64bit)
Windows Server 2003 (32bit)
Windows Vista Business SP2 (32bit)
Windows XP professional SP3 (32bit)

and will be available for download soon.

24th November 2009

ESL 9.20 for Windows is currently available and has been tested with the following versions of Windows;

Windows 7 (32bit)
Windows 7 (64bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32bit)
Windows Server 2008 (64bit)
Windows Server 2003 (32bit)
Windows Vista Business SP2 (32bit)
Windows XP professional SP3 (32bit)

We have included some new development tools and have extended the OSUtil and FileIO functions. Please do let us know if you would like any additional features.

As usual, for more information, please see the Release Notes.

1st September 2009

ESL 9.11 for Windows XP & Vista & Server 2003 & 2008 is now available.

Following a question from a Client regarding support for the 64bit Operating Systems, we are pleased to announce that ESL has been fully regression tested on Windows Server 2008 64bit. We are pleased to confirm that there are no problems and we will provide full support for this platform.

We are currently testing on XP 64bit and the pre-release version of Windows 7 64bit.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if your company is planning to migrate your ESL applications to any of the other Windows 64bit platforms.

For more information, please see the Release Notes.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key or a trial version. We will send you access details to our ftp site.

11th March 2009

ESL 9.10 for Windows XP & Vista & Server 2003 & 2008 is now available.

In response to a request from some of our users, we have performed a full regression test of ESL on Windows Server 2003.
We are pleased to confirm there are no problems and we will provide full support for this platform.

For more information, please see the Release Notes.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key or a trial version. We will send you access details to our ftp site.

8th December 2008

Calling .NET from ESL
Following a successful customer trial, we are pleased to announce that ESL can communicate with .NET functions.
Since the introduction of Microsoft’s .NET a number of Customers have asked whether an interface could be provided to access the features of this managed code environment.
With the introduction of the COM Interoperation facility within the C# language, this interface is possible. The “COM Interop” assembly directive tells the assembler to create a Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW), this is essential to marshal data between to unmanaged native machine code, generated from a compiler, and managed code of .NET. Using a C++ wrapper to convert string parameters and locate the entry points, ESL can access any interface routine defined within the C# application. As the .NET-managed environment is language neutral, it is possible to access any routine regardless to the language used to create the function.

28th July 2008

ESL 8.20 for Windows Vista & Server 2008 is available now.
In addition to fixing a few errors we have upgraded the DB2 support to 9.5.
Server 2008 seems to perform quite well so we anticpate a number of our customers switching to this before long.
Please let us know how you get on.
As usual, please notify the help desk if you would like a copy and we'll make it available on your ESL ftp site.

3rd December 2007

ESL 8.00 for Windows Vista is now available. This is functionally equivalent to 7.02 - but in addition to the version built using Visual Studio 6 is now available as a version built using Visual Studio 8. We will continue to support ESL using Visual Studio 6 as long as we have a demand for it. Wherever possible, both versions will be kept in step. As usual, please notify the help desk if you would like a copy and we'll make it available on your ESL ftp site.

14th August 2007

We have finished testing ESL 7.02 for Windows Vista. We had to make a few changes to parameter files and registry entries, but we think that it is now working pretty well. As usual, please notify the help desk if you would like a copy and we'll make it available on your ESL ftp site.

12th March 2007

ESL 7.01 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract. It can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key or a trial version. We will send you access details to our ftp site.

9th October 2006

ESL 5.60 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract. It can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key or a trial version. We will send you access details to our ftp site.

28th September 2006

We have revised and updated all of our documentation. This will be included in the next release and is also accessible and available for download from this web site.

2nd June 2006

ESL 5.52 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract. It can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key or a trial version. We will send you access details to our ftp site.

30th November 2005

We are updating our site layout and security. Please contact the ESL Help Desk if you have problems accessing the online documentation or FAQs.

23rd October 2005

ESL 5.51 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

We have modified the installation procedure and now request a product key to be entered the first time that the compiler is used, rather than during the installation - and the installation files are now in a single ".exe".

As usual, please contact the ESL Help Desk if you would like a copy and a key. We will send you the key and access details to our ftp site.

14th February 2005

ESL 5.50 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

The features of this release include a number of fixes and enhancements to ESLPR and ESLWeb.

The local application ESLPR now supports:

Fixed and variable pitched fonts

Multiple copies through select printer dialog

Embedded spaces in file and printer names without need for quotes

Top and left margins

Optional form feed at end of passthrough printing

Line feed without carriage return to support OS/2 style print file

Please see Readme.txt in .../Samples/ESLPR for more details.

Enhancement to ESLWEB
Following discussions with interested ESL developers, we have continued to develop the ESLWEB facilities, which allows ESL applications to communicate with WEB Servers using the IP protocol.
The new features are:
1. Support for secure socket layer via the HTTPS protocol.
2. New function, "HTTPPostWithHdr" to allow customize headers to be sent.

4th January 2005

Error in Date Module

We would like to draw your attention to an error found in the “DATE” module which effects dates from the 1st January 2005.

If your ESL applications use either routine, "Date_AddDays" or “Date_Julian_Out”, you will find the results are 1 day less than expected.

All customers with a current support agreement can download a new version of the “DATE” module from here. Once downloaded the “DATE.PRI” file must be extracted to the “modules” directory of the ESL development installation and all affected applications re-compiled. If you need more information on this problem or you do not have a current support agreement please contact the ESL Help Desk.

4th October 2004

ESL 5.46 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD. The features of this release include native ESL support for;

Mouse wheel support
Access to EBCDIC files

Please see the readme for more details.

5th April 2004

ESL 5.45 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD. The features of this release include native ESL support for;

Enhanced graphics handling including jpegs & gifs
FTP uploads & downloads
MAPI support to provide email with attachments

14th October 2003

ESL 5.44 for Windows XP is now available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

15th September 2003

Thanks very much to everyone who took time to participate in our questionnaire.

5th July 2003

A New release of ESL 5.43 is now available.

6th March 2003

ESL 5.43 for Windows XP is available to our customers with a support contract and can be downloaded or delivered on CD.

This release contains some bug fixes and includes support for UDB DB2 version 8.1 and Sybase version 12.5.

21st October 2002

ESL 5.42 for Windows XP is released.

18th October 2002

ESL Syndetic acquired the rights to the ESL software from TC Group with effect from 1st October 2002. ESL Syndetic has been formed by the team that have supported ESL since 1999.

We are now completely focused on supporting and developing ESL and we will endeavour to further improve both the product and the support that we provide to our customers.

1999

TC Group acquired ESL from Ardent Software and created an ESL business within the group.

1998

TC Group took over the role of supporting ESL following the acquisition of VMark’s product range by Ardent Software.

1994

The extensive range of product offerings was united under the family name: the ESL Technology Family. In 1994 ‘Easel Corporation’ was acquired by VMark software, which continued to improve and develop ESL, culminating in the release of ESL 5, a 32 bit version of the Windows product.

1993

The re-named ‘Easel Corporation’ launched the Windows and Presentation Manager versions of their EASEL package.

Interactive Images introduced a major breakthrough in Graphical User Interface (GUI) technology: the event-driven EASEL application development language.

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