1C:Enterprise Development Tools 1.3.0 beta is available

1C Company releases 1C:Enterprise Development Tools version 1.3.0 (beta). The main purpose of this release is to support 1C:Enterprise platform version 8.3.9, while significant functionality changes are scheduled for the next updates.

1C:Enterprise Development Tools is an integrated new-generation environment for the development of 1C:Enterprise business applications. You can use 1C:Enterprise Development Tools alongside with 1C:Enterprise Designer. Applications developed with 1C:Enterprise Development Tools are fully compatible with the latest 1C:Enterprise versions. 1C:Enterprise Development Tools advantages are compliance with the latest demands and requirements, and rapid evolution and enhancement capabilities for the development environment.

The creation of a new development environment is a large-scale task. Version 1.3.0 is an improvement of version 1.2.1.

Version 1.3.0 supports configuration development for 1C:Enterprise platform versions 8.3.8 and 8.3.9. Configurations being developed for both versions can share a single workspace.

What’s new in version 1.3.0 (compared with version 1.2.0)

Further development of the following features:

• Form editor
• Metadata object support:
  • Defined types
  • Filter criteria
• Editing 1C:Enterprise script modules:
  • The print wizard now adds documenting comments for methods being generated.
  • The search in the context help is available regardless of the input language.
  • Improved navigation in 1C:Enterprise script modules.
• Infobase interaction:
  • Infobase creation based on a template
  • Usability improvements for infobase operations
• Customization of launch configurations

Export and import of the following objects to or from XML files is implemented: settings storages, HTTP services, style elements, charts of characteristic types, and charts of calculation types. The types and the object model formed by these objects are available for use. Tables generated by these objects are available in query wizards and data composition system wizards. The option to create and edit objects of these types is not yet available.

The new features also include:

• Project migration from earlier versions
• Support of 1C:Enterprise platform 8.3.9, including OS X environment

The full list of updates and changes is available in the file Updates.en.htm, which is a part of the product distribution kit.

Beta version purpose and specifics

1C:Enterprise Development Tools are based on a totally new architecture. This provides a great potential for the implementation of a wide range of development automation tools and usability improvements. However, the beta version only uses a small part of these new architecture capabilities. It is intended primarily for mobile application development and does not support all 1C:Enterprise capabilities. In particular, it does not support some metadata object types. For the full list of limitations, see the documentation supplied with the beta version distribution kit.

The beta version is not optimized for the development of large configurations. The optimization is scheduled for the next releases.

1C:Enterprise Development Tools version 1.3.0 supports 1C:Enterprise platform versions 8.3.8 and 8.3.9.

The new project migration feature ensures that you can use version 1.3.0 to work with configurations developed with earlier 1C:Enterprise Development Tools versions.

The release of the full 1C:Enterprise Development Tools version is scheduled for the first quarter of 2017, with a few more beta version updates in between. The future beta versions will include the following features:

• Support of external reports and external data processors
• Support of configuration profiling
• Optimization for development of large configurations

Beta version availability and support

1C:Enterprise Development Tools version 1.3.0 is available for free to registered 1C:Enterprise users and 1C partners.

You can download 1C:Enterprise Development Tools version 1.3.0. The product documentation is included in the distribution kit.

Please send your feedback to int@1c.com.

You can discuss 1C:Enterprise Development Tools at the developer forum.