Every development team working with a range of data sits back at some point and says “You know what we need?  A Great Dashboard.  Yeah, that’ll help everyone out!”  It seems so simple in concept - bring together summary data from across the system into one view - but more often than not the end result isn’t genuinely useful and after an initial “ooh! Shiny! new!” reaction it fades into obscurity....

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Modernizing the User Experience

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We’ve gone 4.0!  After 18 months of development, three betas and around 800 builds it’s finally here.  Our Loupe Service customers were upgraded this weekend and for everyone else you can download the latest release right away.   If you’re not currently using Loupe, definitely check out our new feature rundown on our main site.

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New versions of Loupe and VistaDB are now available that fix a few defects found since the last release of each product.  The most notable issue is a problem that affected every UI we build on Windows 10 where some computers had duplicate font families, causing our font-selection code to fail.  For VistaDB this only affected our tools, not the VistaDB engine itself.  For Loupe this affected the UI elements...

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When we published Beta 2 we knew we were leaving some items unaddressed - a host of non-critical defects, packaging and deployment items, and we’d disabled Loupe AddIns because they were in mid-flight.  Now, six weeks later, we’ve covered that and have a release candidate build in our hands.  Why then are we calling it a Beta?  Because we’re waiting on final customer feedback on the new extensibility and Agent API...

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