RD Tabs 2.0 is now up to patch level 11! This update includes a couple bug fixes, a couple new features, and some updates to the help file. You can download it here...

http://www.avianwaves.com/tech/tools/rdtabs/rdtabs_2.0.11.msi 

http://www.avianwaves.com/tech/tools/rdtabs/rdtabs_2.0.11.zip 

Here is the changelog. (Yes, I know I need to update the RD Tabs home page since it still says "2.0.8" is the latest version.)

- Error reports submitted since version 2.0.9 regarding the obscure "crashing on load" problem have given me ideas on what is happening. It looks like some object is just not getting initialized in time before it is being called, which honestly should be handled by the framework, but I'll have to work around it anyway. I moved the offending code further down the line so that more time has passed before it's accessed. By doing so, I took it out of the "load" event and put it into a "post-load" method called via a timer after "OnLoad" completes. Hopefully, with all this new code, this problem will disappear. There are even more breadcrumbs added in this version, in case it doesn't disappear!

- Due to design changes in the 2.x codeline, RD Tabs was not catching if your mstscax.dll got unregistered (for whatever reason). So you would get the standard error reporter. These scenarios are not bugs (but not catching them is a bug) so I don't need the error reports. I changed the code to catch this exception again and it will now tell you what's wrong and how to fix it. In a future version I'm going to try to make this process more automatic. (Like in Vista, I'll try to make it prompt to elevate and then fix the problem for you.)

- New feature: You can now screen capture a region of a remote desktop, instead of just the entire remote desktop (great feature if you do lots of documentation with screen caps, like me). This feature is available in the status bar pulldown, the Connection Menu pulldown, and a new context menu when you right-click on the screen capture shortcut icon in the status bar. The screen is "frozen" the moment you activate the region capture, and then you will be given the opportunity to click and drag a rectangle over the area you want saved into the clipboard.

- If you invoke RD Tabs Command Line arguments from a different shell (prompt) than the program was originally run from (or if it was originally run from a start menu link) you will see no text output at the console when executing commands. This is because it will have no knowledge of what console to "bind" to. Sorry, this is a limitation I can't overcome right now, so...

- To address the issue in the line above, there is a new option under "Help" which says "View Console Window Output" which will open a prompt that will contain an output history for every command you have issued. Additionally, under options, you can specify that this window will automatically open whenever new commands are issued to RD Tabs from the command line (disabled by default).

- Updated the help file to reflect the new features (new sections and screenshots).