Visual Studio Project Cleaner Change History

Version 3.02, 20 December 2024
Version 3.02 includes the following functionality:

• Addition information displayed when a software update fails to query the website for software update information.

Version 3.01, 06 December 2024
Version 3.01 includes the following functionality:

• GUI fonts are now anti-aliased.

Version 3.00, 14 November 2024
Version 3.00 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.99, 05 November 2024
Version 2.99 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.98, 17 October 2024
Version 2.98 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.97, 01 October 2024
Version 2.97 includes the following functionality:

• Improved software update dialog.

Version 2.96, 13 September 2024
Version 2.96 includes the following functionality:

• Static analysis improvements.

Version 2.95, 30 August 2024
Version 2.95 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.94, 01 August 2024
Version 2.94 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.93, 21 July 2024
Version 2.93 includes the following functionality:

• Misc static code analysis bug fixes.

Version 2.92, 10 June 2024
Version 2.92 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.91, 30 May 2024
Version 2.91 includes the following functionality:

• Changes to the default values for what gets cleaned - Visual Studio options and User options are now not cleaned by default.

Version 2.90, 20 March 2024
Version 2.90 includes the following functionality:

• Minor UX changes.
• Minor bug fixes and continued improvement of secure data handling.

Version 2.89, 09 March 2024
Version 2.89 includes the following functionality:

• Minor bug fixes and continued improvement of secure data handling.

Version 2.88, 08 February 2024
Version 2.88 includes the following functionality:

• Changes to security attributes/descriptors placed on files and pipes etc. We no longer use default settings (Everyone all access), but restrict access to Admin/System/Interactive Users and Deny Guest.
• Improvements to security issues in various places in the codebase.
• Improved handling of low memory conditions in string handling.

Version 2.87, 01 February 2024
Version 2.87 includes the following functionality:

• Software improvements due to static analysis with VisualLint and Gimpel PC-Lint.
• Bug fix for potential crash if NULL passed to Software Verify internal heap allocator.

Version 2.86, 11 December 2023
Version 2.86 includes the following functionality:

• Graphics update for 4K screens.

Version 2.85, 28 November 2023
Version 2.85 includes the following functionality:

• All threading synchronization primitives moved to the svlSupport.dll library, rather than included in each library. This has had the useful side effect of improving callstacks.

Version 2.84, 21 November 2023
Version 2.84 includes the following functionality:

• UX improvement - tree expand/collapse buttons are now easier to use because they are better sized on high DPI screens.

Version 2.83, 07 November 2023
Version 2.83 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.82, 19 October 2023
Version 2.82 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.81, 27 September 2023
Version 2.81 includes the following functionality:

• Update to handle DLL function importing by API Set rather than DLL name.

Version 2.80, 31 August 2023
Version 2.80 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.79, 25 August 2023
Version 2.79 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for help file downloading.

Version 2.78, 16 August 2023
Version 2.78 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.77, 10 August 2023
Version 2.77 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of command line option /resetAll. This option resets the settings to the default.

Version 2.76, 27 July 2023
Version 2.76 includes the following functionality:

• Updated svlUXTheme.

Version 2.75, 11 July 2023
Version 2.75 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of .suo file extension.
• Addition of .vs and obj directories. Default: OFF.
• Addition of options to delete DLLs from Microsoft. Default: OFF.
• Addition of options to delete DLLs not from Microsoft. Default: OFF.

Version 2.74, 10 July 2023
Version 2.74 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.73, 31 May 2023
Version 2.73 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.72, 21 May 2023
Version 2.72 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.71, 11 May 2023
Version 2.71 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.70, 27 April 2023
Version 2.70 includes the following functionality:

• The /dir option can be used more than once on the command line, allowing you to specify multiple directories to be cleaned from the command line.
• Addition of directory filters to allow you more control over what is cleaned and what is not cleaned.
• Addition of directory filters settings section on the settings dialog.
• Addition of Load Settings... and Save Settings... to Settings menu.
• Addition of /loadSettings fileName to command line options.

Version 2.69, 25 April 2023
Version 2.69 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.
• Bug fixes and additional safety measures added to SVL Admin Service.

Version 2.68, 04 April 2023
Version 2.68 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.67, 09 March 2023
Version 2.67 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.66, 07 February 2023
Version 2.66 includes the following functionality:

• Update to detect Windows 11 operating system.
• Maintenance release.

Version 2.65, 11 January 2023
Version 2.65 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.64, 13 December 2022
Version 2.64 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.63, 28 November 2022
Version 2.63 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.
• Updated UX Theme.

Version 2.62, 08 November 2022
Version 2.62 includes the following functionality:

• Updated Help menu.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.
• Updated documentation.

Version 2.61, 22 October 2022
Version 2.61 includes the following functionality:

• Updated Help menu.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.60, 06 October 2022
Version 2.60 includes the following functionality:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 2.59, 13 September 2022
Version 2.59 includes the following functionality:

• Redesigned GUI, addition of main menu.
• Addition of Software Updates functionality.
• Addition of failure to delete statistics.

Version 2.58, 20 June 2022
Version 2.58 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for missing installer dependency on vanilla machines with no installs.

Version 2.57, 06 June 2022
Version 2.57 includes the following functionality:

• Updated installer to only ask about closing Visual Studio after the choice for installing Visual Studio menus has been made.

Version 2.56, 01 June 2022
Version 2.56 includes the following functionality:

• Various static analysis bug fixes.

Version 2.55, 26 April 2022
Version 2.55 includes the following functionality:

• Static analysis bug fixes.
• Misc bug fixes.
• Bug fixes for incorrect test with FindFirstFile().

Version 2.54, 05 April 2022
Version 2.54 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of option to delete the _UpgradeReport_Files directory and it's contents.
• Improved registry access handling.

Version 2.53, 15 March 2022
Version 2.53 includes the following functionality:

• New settings dialog.

Version 2.52, 07 February 2022
Version 2.52 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.51, 25 January 2022
Version 2.51 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.50, 10 January 2022
Version 2.50 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of /configure command line option to allow Visual Studio Project Cleaner to be run just to configure settings. For use with Visual Studio Project Builder.
• Addition of /dir command line option to allow Visual Studio Project Cleaner to be run to clean directories. For use with Visual Studio Project Builder to provide more control over cleaning that Visual Studio provides.

Version 2.49, 05 January 2022
Version 2.49 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash with settings dialog.

Version 2.48, 29 December 2021
Version 2.48 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release: installer update.

Version 2.47, 23 December 2021
Version 2.47 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release: Software Verify UX Theme moved into it's own library.

Version 2.46, 07 December 2021
Version 2.46 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.45, 18 October 2021
Version 2.45 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.
• Misc bug fixes.
• Modified installer shortcut criteria.

Version 2.44, 08 October 2021
Version 2.44 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.43, 29 September 2021
Version 2.43 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.42, 12 August 2021
Version 2.42 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes including DLL inspection bug fix for potential crash.

Version 2.41, 02 August 2021
Version 2.41 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Minor bug fixes and updates.

Version 2.40, 06 July 2021
Version 2.40 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for registry reading bug. Only affects installs on machines that don't already have an install.

Version 2.39, 03 July 2021
Version 2.39 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Various bug fixes and misc new functionality.

Version 2.38, 11 June 2021
Version 2.38 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes. Maintenance release.

Version 2.37, 19 May 2021
Version 2.37 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.36, 16 April 2021
Version 2.36 includes the following functionality:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 2.35, 31 March 2021
Version 2.35 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash using Vector class.

Version 2.34, 17 March 2021
Version 2.34 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for finding Program Files directory for non English language countries.

Version 2.33, 13 March 2021
Version 2.33 includes the following functionality:

• Compiled HTML Help (CHM) and PDF help files are now downloaded outside of the setup executable. This is an attempt to stop anti-virus detectors mistaking the setup file for virus/malware because the CHM has triggered a FALSE positive virus detection.

Version 2.32, 29 January 2021
Version 2.32 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.31, 05 January 2021
Version 2.31 includes the following functionality:

• UX improvements.

Version 2.30, 26 November 2020
Version 2.30 includes the following functionality:

• New Software Verify UX Theme. Easier to use. Calmer to look at. New icons.
• Updated documentation.

Version 2.29, 09 November 2020
Version 2.29 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.28, 26 October 2020
Version 2.28 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.27, 24 October 2020
Version 2.27 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.26, 08 October 2020
Version 2.26 includes the following functionality:

• Misc improvements.

Version 2.25, 02 October 2020
Version 2.25 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix to for incorrect data insertion into an array.

Version 2.24, 24 September 2020
Version 2.24 includes the following functionality:

• Misc performance improvements.

Version 2.23, 18 September 2020
Version 2.23 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.22, 14 August 2020
Version 2.22 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for grid rendering. Fixes a rare crash.
• Minor UX improvements.

Version 2.21, 25 June 2020
Version 2.21 includes the following functionality:

• New SVL UX Theme.
• Updated help to reflect the new SVL UX Theme.

Version 2.20, 19 May 2020
Version 2.20 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of counter showing size of data cleaned off disk. Added comma separators into the count.

Version 2.19, 14 May 2020
Version 2.19 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for memory leak in Microsoft's CPngImage class. Replaced class with our implementation. We found this leak with C++ Memory Validator.

Version 2.18, 05 May 2020
Version 2.18 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.17, 20 April 2020
Version 2.17 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.16, 20 March 2020
Version 2.16 includes the following functionality:

• Misc static analysis bug fixes.

Version 2.15, 15 March 2020
Version 2.15 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.14, 02 March 2020
Version 2.14 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.13, 26 February 2020
Version 2.13 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.12, 07 February 2020
Version 2.12 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.11, 30 January 2020
Version 2.11 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes and UX improvements.

Version 2.10, 20 January 2020
Version 2.10 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes, etc.

Version 2.09, 02 January 2020
Version 2.09 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes and UI/UX tweaks.

Version 2.08, 03 December 2019
Version 2.08 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for multi-threading. Ensuring threads are notified to end when they should be.

Version 2.07, 20 August 2019
Version 2.07 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for help file locating.

Version 2.06
Version 2.06 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for Visual Studio discovery.

Version 2.06
Version 2.06 includes the following functionality:

Version 2.05
Version 2.05 includes the following functionality:

• Changed installer to not require administrator rights.

Version 2.05
Version 2.05 includes the following functionality:

Version 2.04
Version 2.04 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.03
Version 2.03 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of menus to Visual Studio for 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010.
• Bug fixes from static analysis.

Version 2.02
Version 2.02 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix when installing on Windows XP/ Windows XP x64.

Version 2.01
Version 2.01 includes the following functionality:

• Tool settings are now stored in the HKCU\Software\SoftwareVerify hierarchy (moved from SoftwareVerification). This is a recommended download.

Version 2.00
Version 2.00 includes the following functionality:

• Updated to provide better UX, support for Visual Lint, Visual Studio Project Fixer and Visual Studio upgrades.

Version 1.00
Version 1.00 includes the following functionality:

• Initial version of Visual Studio Project Cleaner.