Changes in version 1.15

Published at 2019-07-07.

Features:

• Visual Studio project template - helps to start a new Expert Advisor project with NQuotes;
• Added MQL functions that appeared in MT4 from build 800 to build 1170, plus some older missing functions including:
  • CopyRates, CopyTime, CopyOpen, CopyHigh, CopyLow, CopyClose, CopyTickVolume
  • SymbolInfoTick
  • SymbolInfoSessionQuote, SymbolInfoSessionTrade
  • FileReadArray, FileWrite, FileWriteArray with DateTime[]
  • ResourceReadImage, ResourceCreate, TextOut, TextGetSize
  • ChartXYToTimePrice, ChartTimePriceToXY
  • ObjectCreate function with chart_id parameter
  • MQLSetInteger
  • MathLog10 and math function aliases (like sin(), fabs() etc.)
• Added missing MQL constants including anchor point enums and other enums, web color constants, numerical type constants, math constants;
• Code documentation tooltips appear in Visual Studio for all MQL functions in the MqlApi subclasses;
• New samples:
  • ChartEventTest - shows how to use OnChartEvent();
  • MovingAverageVB - a sample for VB.NET;
  • WPFFormTest - WPF UI sample;

Updates:

• The MQL code is compiled using the metaeditor.exe version 5.00 build 1966. If you have an older version of MetaEditor you might need to update your MT4 terminal;
• Updated the setup to contain an installer of the .NET Framework 4.8;
• Dropped support for .NET Framework 4.0, the minimal supported .NET version is 4.5;
• Updated Visual C++ redistributable files from v100 to v120;
• The minimal supported Windows version is Windows Vista;
• The sample projects require Visual Studio 2015 or newer;

Bug fixes:

• Fixed exceptions in NQLog and enhanced it to support multiprocess scenarios (multi-MT4 and multi-chart);
• Enabled OnTimer and OnChartEvent in nquotes.mq4 by default;
• Improved stability of the licensing server;
• Fixed nquotes_get_property_string() to not return an empty string;