We are happy to announce that SmartInspect 2.0 has been released! The new version contains more than 100 new features and improvements (our What’s New page has all the details). Here is a quick list of the most important new features in this upgrade:
- Full Unicode support in all libraries and in the Console
- Backlog queue management for improved I/O performance
- Watches Graph to track variable values and resources
- New memory and text log protocols
- New modern look and productivity improvements
- Session tracking for easier integration into complex applications
- Support for hourly, daily, weekly and monthly log rotation
- Many view improvements and new filters
- New log entry types and log methods
- Custom protocols and protocol actions
- Support for Windows Vista, .NET 3.0 and Java 1.6
- And much more
And because a picture says more than a thousand words, the following screenshot shows the new SmartInspect Console with the updated look and feel and some of the new features like the Watches Graph on the right:
Customers who ordered SmartInspect on or after the 1st October 2006 can download the new version from our My Gurock.com customer portal. If you purchased SmartInspect before that date, you can upgrade to the new version by ordering the SmartInspect 1.x upgrade in our shop (we also have an introductory price for the new version and for the upgrade until March 31st).
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Wow, I just have to leave a comment here right now. For the last five minutes I was browsing this site, unsuspecting, reading a couple of posts (and actually contemplating buying SmartInspect
), and just as I’m about to leave, bang, you guys release announce the new version! 
Definitely looks like a cool product, though problably overkill for most of my small-scale projects.
Hi Michael, thanks for the comment and kind words.
Yes, we were really busy getting the new version out yesterday and announcing it on all the development sites (there are a lot of them!). I hope some of our blog postings and articles were useful/interesting to you!
Nice looking app. Would you mind sharing with us what tool (Delphi?) you used and which components?
Thanks
Thanks, Orson. The Console is indeed written in Delphi, originally in Delphi 7 and ported to Delphi 2006 a few months ago.
We use some (heavily modified) components from DevExpress for the toolbars, menus, docking and general look and feel. Moreover we use Indy for the TCP server and several other nice open source components like the JCL, Virtual TreeView, Tnt, UniSynEdit or the mirkes.de Hex Editor. In retrospect I think Delphi was the right choice for the Console, especially because of the Virtual TreeView component (it’s used everywhere in the Console).
Thanks for that (BCB2006 man myself). The main reason why I stick with BCB/Delphi is because of the fantastic range of affordable third-party components. I think it levels the playing field for us smaller smaller developers.
I agree, the third-party community is definitely one of the advantages of Delphi.
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