pasTransfer 4.30.0.0 RTM is now generally available.

This release of pasTransfer adds new concurrency capabilities to all wizards and adds new import/export capabilities to the Ledger wizard..

Concurrency Handling

Let us say that you have launched the pasTransfer application and begin configuring a new source to read from a database.  You navigate forward and hit the Import page where it executes your query.  At that moment you realize that you forget a WHERE clause and a query that should have taken 5 seconds is not going to take 20 minutes.  Well, rather than killing the application and loosing your work you will now find that after a few seconds a dialog appears and gives you the opportunity to cancel the import so you can back up in the wizard and add your WHERE clause.  The same cancellation dialogs will appear in all wizards at key points where long-running operations can occur such as import, mapping, and export.

Import/Export Settings

When pasTransfer was first implemented the Ledger wizard was implemented using the Windows Registry for storage.  The idea was that you would not have to mess around with configuration files or install SQL Server databases and keep things simple.  As time went on our development team took note of some bugs in the Windows registry tools that would not allow us to safely import files that containing multi-line strings and often times moving configurations around resulted in lost values.  When we designed the General, Account, and Vendor wizards we made the decision to use XML files to store the configuration in but for backwards compatibility leave the Ledger data in the registry.  We have now developed the ability to move Ledger data between computers using XML files that will 100% preserve the values exported when later imported on another machine.  Going forward please use this new XML format to import and export your configuration files.

Switching between 32 and 64 bit editions

Often times customers outgrow their 32-bit editions or pasTransfer and want to move to a 64-bit edition.  Unfortunately, the application stores ledger configuration data in the registry under a key specific to the CPU architecture.  When switching editions you have the need to move the data from either the 32-bit to the 64-bit keys or vice versa.  Rather than mess around with Import/Export to files you will now be able to use the Convert option in the ledger wizard to move the data to the appropriate location in the registry with one click.  If you decide to go back to the old edition you just click the Convert button one more time to push it back.  As the other wizards store data in XML this only applies to the Ledger wizard.