I've just finished installing the new LANSA V12.0 onto both a "Master" I-Series and a "Slave" Windows XP workstation as a fresh new LANSA install.
There are a number of improvements. Firstly, all of the numerous CD's of the LANSA software have now been combined into one single DVD disk... Nice... Secondly, the installation DVD comes with a much newer, nicer, and improved Visual C++ engine wrapper.... So just working with the new software and documentation is much improved.
However, the largest changes and improvements ( that I have run into thus far... and I am still exploring ... ) are in the VL IDE workstation installer upgrades...
As most of you know, LANSA V12.0 is where LANSA introduces the change from running on the older Sybase SQL Anywhere SQL platform to running on the newer Microsoft SQLServer 2008 Express SQL database platform. That alone is a major change ( Make sure you follow the documentation on this on upgrades...)...
The installer, however, has a whole new look and feel and some improved dialogs too to go along with the new SQL database platform. You can relax though as many of the dialog questions remain the same as before... although there are some changes too...
The installation process ran very smoothly.... I did have to go through one "normal" reboot, but the installer just picked right back up again without so much as a single touch...
Starting the VL IDE for the first time caused the Partition Initialization to kick off and this set of dialogs has been changed into a nice neat little checklist.... so you can actually tell exactly where you are at, what is done, and what is left to do...
My first start of the VL IDE crashed, so I was a little disappointed at first... I called LANSA Support and they were very fast to respond... There was a small registry path error that me and my "fat fingers" had apparently introduced while answering all of the new dialogs... Once we had that ironed out, then the VL IDE came right up and ran like a champ... So, I'm chalking that one up to me and my "fat fingers"...
All in all - aside from my "fat fingers" episodes - the new LANSA V12.0 installation ran very smoothly and seems to include a lot of nice improvements...
I'm going to be back to exploring LANSA V12.0 next and then maybe try a little LANSA install upgrade action later on once I get a little more comfortable...
Meanwhile, I would definitely recommend that everyone give the New LANSA V12.0 a try...
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