Release v0.6

I have just published a new release of Tail Blazer - get the latest from github releases. or alternatively get the latest from chocolatey.

Before going into anything new, I would like to take the opportunity to give a big thanks to the open source community for these two excellent pull requests

1. Merge assemblies into as single assembly TailBlazer.exe - see Pull Request #66
2. Make Tail Blazer available on Chocolatey Pull Request # 73

These are both a great contribution to this project, so again thanks guys.

So what ele is there?

Better search and highlight options for Tail Blazer

When you type search or highlight, Tail Blazer will automatically detect whether you are typing regex or plain text

If however it gets the wrong then after typing your search text, click the icon to show tail blazer that you know better

But that's not all, as you can choose whether any text can be used for a filter or a highlight.

And there's more to come. In subsequent releases I will introduce the ability to choose different highlight colours as well as adding alert options when a tail line matches some search text.

Better failure handling

Tail Blazer now gives a clear indication when for any reason a file cannot be opened or tailed.

So what's next. Any roadmap?

I am building up to v1.0 which will be the point at which I regard Tail Blazer as being rock solid and error free, as well as fulfilling some of the missing functions which I would expect from any good system.

These missing functions include better keyboard navigation and saving of layout. After that I have two major options for what version 2 would include. These are:

1. Handle external sources such as unix file system, event viewer or tx (see issue #51)

2. Multi-file handle such as folder tailing of collating result from multiple files.

What it will be I do not know yet. But before I start on that I will write some blog posts about how I built Tail Blazer using the uber cool Rx extensions.