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v2.6, Release Date: August 2008

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes:

 

Bug fix: Support for default workbook templates with less than three worksheets.
Bug fix: Improved support for DEP.

 

 

v2.5, Release Date: March 2008

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes:

 

Bug fix: 'Type mismatch' error when RouteWriter is installed after MileCharter but is registered first.
Bug fixes: Minor improvements to key registration mechanism.

 

 

v2.4, Release Date: September 2007

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes:

 

Bug fix: Pause/Restart crashed with very large projects.
Bug fix: MapPoint would very occasionally crash with very large "closest only" jobs.

 

 

v2.3, Release Date: April 2007

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes:

 

Bug fix: Switching between miles and kilometers can result in incorrect coordinates in Excel.
Bug fix: Possible to select 'no work' (ie. no distances, times, or costs).
Bug fix: Large tables are sometimes still limited to 250 columns in Excel 2007.

 

 

v2.2, Release Date: February 2007

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes and support for Excel 2007's large spreadsheets:

 

Support for Excel 2007's large spreadsheets with more than 256 columns.
Support for Windows Vista.
Support for multi-symbol pushpin sets.
Bug fix: Further improvements regarding localization support.
Bug fix: Incorrect travel time formatting.
Bug fix: "Fastest only" locations were not always the fastest.
Removal of text output option due to MapPoint 2006's route-finding / text output bug.

 

v2.1, Release Date: December 2006

 

Maintenance release including a number of bug fixes and additions:

 

Ability to explicitly set the road preferences.
Support for more than 100 pushpin sets in the same MapPoint map.
Bug fix: Missing file error on reboot request during install.
Bug fix: Results for "Find shortest straight line distances" not in order.
Bug fix: Hours:Minutes time format fixed for text output.

 

 

v2.0, Release Date: August 2006

 

Major product update including Basic & Professional Editions:

 

Option to report the N closest destinations only.
Ability to pause and restart computations.
Text output option.
Improved support for localization (number output).
Bug fix: ComboBox "Text Edit" bug.
Bug fix: Viewing spreadsheets in Excel 2003 (and later) during computation, could result in MileCharter stopping.

 

 

v1.4, Release Date: October 2005

 

Documentation Update Release, with the following improvements:

 

Added references to the new CD-ROM version.
Added the new "Getting Started For MapPoint Beginners" example.
Updated contact details.
Tab Order fixed.

 

 

v1.3, Release Date: May 2005

 

Maintenance Release, with the following improvements:

 

Straight-line distance calculations speeded up approximately 10-20 fold.
Mis-located blank cell bug: Fixed.
Tables with large numbers of rows causing crashes: Fixed.

 

Blank cell(s) are written if a route cannot be found. An example of this might be if a pushpin is located in a lake. This is correct, but the "Mis-located blank cell bug" resulted in blank cells over-writing valid data.

 

 

v1.2, Release Date: February 2005

 

New Features:

 

Rate Tables to enable sophisticated cost calculations
Support for wide tables that can span multiple spreadsheets
Parameters are stored and used as defaults for the next run

 

Bug fixes:

 

Tables that break Excel's physical limits are detected. Spanning is provided as an option for extra-wide tables.
Un-matched pushpins are consistently ignored.
User-initiated Excel closure is detected and halts calculations.

 

 

v1.1, Release Date: 29th December 2004

 

New Feature:

 

Support for MapPoint 2002 added.

 

 

v1.0, Release Date: 30th November 2004

 

Initial version