CodeQuest

Included modules:

  • File copying and deleting
  • Compression of files and folders
  • MS SQL Server SQL scripts
  • MS SQL Server backup and restore
  • Windows service starting and stopping

Future modules:

  • Additional database support
    Oracle
    MySQL
    ODBC
  • MS Virtual Server start/stop
  • WMI tasks
  • FTP and HTTP tasks

Hotspare version history

v1.0.2.1 26 Jul 2005 - Bug-fix to console output

  • When a console application exits quickly the stdout capture failed

v1.0.2.0 28 Jul 2005 - Licensing changes

  • Added domain wide license

v1.0.1.1 13 Jun 2005 - SQL export functionality

  • Added exporting SQL Server queries to CSV files
  • Added exporting OLEDB queries to CSV files
  • Added exporting ODBC queries to CSV files
  • Added refresh type to SQL OLAP cubes
  • Added options to process cubes and/or dimensions for SQL OLAP cubes
  • Added dialog listing licensed machines to the main menu

v1.0.1.0 11 Feb 2005 - New functionality

  • Added truncating of logs within SQL server
  • Added updating statistics within SQL server
  • Added shrinking of datafiles within SQL server
  • Added pausing and resuming of machines within Virtual Server
  • Added verbose logging option to zip operations
  • Implemented HTML rather than ANSI text log results
  • Implemented dynamic loading of assemblies
  • Implemented dumping of event logs
  • Implemented inclusion of a file (text or html) into the results
  • Implemented sending of email (text or html) with or without attachments
  • Implemented file copy that only copies blocks of a file that have changed
  • Implemented HTTP tasks
  • Implemented OLEDB (including ODBC) tasks
  • Implemented Oracle tasks
  • Selected task remains selected after moving up or down
  • Edit menu reflects context menu
  • Edit/context menu allows enabling and disabling of tasks

v1.0.0.5 21 Dec 2004 - Completion of initial virtual server functionality

  • Added virtual server starting and stopping of machines

v1.0.0.4 28 Nov 2004 - Bug-fix to logging

  • Bug fix to logging when the exception cannot be written to the log due to serialization issues
  • Added date and time to comment when starting a batch

v1.0.0.3 08 Nov 2004 - New functionality

  • Bug fix to File logging when the file already contained data
  • Added recently used files list to menu of GUI editor
  • Added ability for the modules to return comments back to the log file
  • Added Log Sql task to the Microsoft SQL Server module to run a query and format the results into the log
  • Added Shell Console Application task

v1.0.0.2 02 Nov 2004 - Private build

  • Added Microsoft SQL Server OLAP module
  • Microsoft Virtual PC module in development - not ready for public release
  • Microsoft Virtual Server module in development - not ready for public release
  • FTP module in development - not ready for public release
  • HTTP module in development - not ready for public release

v1.0.0.1 8 Sep 2004 - Bug fixes

  • Bug fix to SQL Server Restore task when moving more than one resultant datafile
  • Added a switch to the app.config called "verbose". Setting this to "1" results in .Net exceptions being returned in the log file

v1.0.0.0 5 Sep 2004 - Initial public release of the software

  • Added BZIP module for files > 2GB
  • Added Logging module
  • Added Microsoft SQL Server module
  • Added Service module
  • Added Shell module
  • Added ZIP module
  • Added runtime licensing from DigitalMorphosis