Routing Assistant

Browse, define, match and filter ASP.NET MVC routes from within Visual Studio

This section contains a live summary of all the release notes for Routing Assistant, starting from the most recent version.

Release notes for Routing Assistant v1.x

Released on Thursday, March 28, 2013

Added support for web applications which need to perform pre-startup activities, by way of the PreApplicationStartMethod attribute
Performance improvement: part of Routing Assistant is now hosted in its own process, in order to offload the main Visual Studio process.
Fixed an issue which caused the crash of the extension, under certain scenarios.

Released on Thursday, March 21, 2013

Added route matching details (including DataTokens and Values) for non-declarative routes in URL Mapper
Added a welcome screen to the product, with a quick overview of its main features
Improved VS2012 themes support
Overall performance improvements
Fixed a compatibility issue in Visual Studio, which caused Routing Assistant to stop working if either C# or VB were not installed
Fixed an issue which affected the retrieval of MVC routes, in certain scenarios
Routing Assistant can now be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery on MSDN (and, thus, directly from Visual Studio: menu TOOLS > Extensions and Updates > Online), with no registration required

Released on Thursday, January 17, 2013

Added support for enabling and disabiling each code window integration feature (via Tools / Options / Cobisi Routing Assistant dialog window).
Fixed a timeout issue which caused Routing Assistant to stop working after several minutes of inactivity.
Fixed an issue which prevented Routing Assistant to run in more than one Visual Studio instance at the same time.
Improved overall stability and performance of the product.

Released on Friday, October 26, 2012

Fixed an issue which affected the loading of ASP.NET websites in VS2012, under certain scenarios.
Overall user interface improvement for VS2012 themes.
Support for high contrast display configurations.

Released on Friday, October 12, 2012

Added support for VB projects in Routing Explorer and URL Mapper!
New security feature: project loading is now blocked by default and is subject to the configurable security settings of Routing Assistant.
Fixed a bug which affected machines with IIS Express installed.
Fixed an issue with metadata windows in Visual Studio.
On the first load, Routing Assistant now correctly docks its toolwindows to the Visual Studio main code window.

Released on Thursday, September 6, 2012

New support for areas! MVC areas are now shown along with their routes in the Routing Explorer window, by default.
Fixed a compatibility issue with Wix projects.

Released on Tuesday, August 14, 2012