Release Notes
ASNA Monarch for .NET
Version: 11.4.41.0
Release date: 2024-09-18
Important notices
Visual Studio 2022 Editions
Visual Studio 2022 17.4 or higher Professional or Enterprise edition is required with the Papa family.
What's New
.NET 8 support
ASNA Encore 4.1.8.0+ and ASNA Monarch 11.4.34.0+ provide .NET 8 support.
- Minimum .NET version: .NET 6
- Minimum Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2022 build: 17.4
- Effective with the next build of the Papa family Visual Studio 2022 build 17.8 is required.
Software Requirements
ASNA Monarch requires the following software:
Platform support
See the ASNA Version Policy for full requirements
You can only install one version of an ASNA Windows product on a single PC. For example, you can't install ASNA Visual RPG for .NET 17.x on a PC on which ASNA Visual RPG for .NET 16.x is installed.
ASNA Monarch Cocoon also requires:
- ASNA Monarch Collector version 10.x - Installation instructions for Monarch Collector can be found here.
General installation tips
We strongly recommend you apply all pending Windows updates before installing any of our Windows products.
Don't install any ASNA Windows products while Visual Studio is running.
Supported Web Browsers
See this article for recommended Web browsers.
Changes Since Version: 11.4.35.0
Clients - DataGate Controls
- Case 21738. Import Database Names Command does not overwrite existing names.
Monarch Cocoon
- Case 6241. When targetting SQL Server and NoLock is used on files opend for Update, declare second read-only file.
- Case 21298. Add support for keyword LVLCHK to the OVRDBF and OVRPRTF commands.
- Case 21702. When adding projects to a solution using dotnet templates, projects in folders with blanks fail to be processed..
- Case 21706. DBCS fields are migrated with the wrong length.
- Case 21709. The app settings file generated by Monarch Cocoon does not match the declare name space in My Job.
- Case 21710. After installing SDK version 8.0.300, we have compile issues in razor (cshtml) files.
- Case 21720. Remove: Task 4004: Unsupported: Cabxx with Label and Resulting Indicators.
- Case 21728. File Information Data Structure property defined by Dcl-DS (free-form) declared with wrong type.
- Case 21735. Cocoon Collector fails to discover very large libraries.
- Case 21740. When migrating to Encore, use uppercase Overflow indicator for DclPrintFile.
RnD - Cocoon Dotnet Templates
- Project for new Website migrations should use QSys Version 5.x.
- Project changes to use Nuget package references on new Encore class libraries.