I'm pleased to announce the release of Web PI 2.0 RTW! There are a number of new features you'll notice in the new version, including...
-Localized into 9 languages. Web PI is now available in French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Italian and Russian.
-Customized feed. We've heard the request from many of you! Now Web PI has the capability to read in custom feeds. So if you wanted to create your own XML file with your own set of products you can do that. If you're interested I'll be creating some articles on how to do this, but feel free to post questions to the forum and we can help answer those as well to get you there.
-Cached downloads. Many folks rightfully asked me why they had to RE-DOWNLOAD sometimes very large installers when an installation failed. We looked around and wondered the same thing so for this release, if you've downloaded a file once and need to reinstall it again you won't have to download it. This also means you could move installers between machines to save bandwidth...stay tuned or ask if you're interested in learning more...
-Better validation. After looking through the many log files all of you have sent it we realized we really needed better validation during the application setup. You should be getting better error messages if the setup parameters are incorrect.
-Many bug fixes. We've tried to investigate, track down and fix the many bugs that have been reported on this forum. If you still see issues, keep letting us know and we'll keep investigating as we release new refreshes and releases.
To get the new version you should just need to launch Web PI and you'll be prompted to upgrade to our RTW. Otherwise you can visit www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx.
Thanks again!
Crystal & the Web PI team