Release notes for EiffelStudio 16.05

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Graphical environment

Ability to target more than one Microsoft C compiler. We now support VS 2015 and above.
A known issue with VS 2015 is that using the console in a graphical application will cause a crash. A separate runtime update will be available shortly.

Update wizards to allow setting the SCOOP concurrency setting
Flat short involving conversions on numeric constants will not show the conversion calls.
Add checks for validity of regular expressions used in include and exclude file rules in ECF specified in EiffelStudio dialog and rejecting invalid regular expression with the corresponding error dialog to avoid a possibility to store ECF that cannot be retrieved.
The Add Library dialog was revisited to enhance the search which now looks into name, description, tags, ... . In addition, it is also possible to search for a library including a class name.
The Execution Parameters are now saved as xml file. It is also possible to export/import such execution parameters xml file from the Execution Parameters dialog, using the drop-down menu.

Fix crash in bug report submission dialog when a network problem occurs
Fix crash when trying to save an empty editor tab (see bug#19178)
Fix metric tool that stopped working due to a change in the interface of the ROUTINE class in 15.12 (see bug#19212).

Update to the latest version of the Eiffel Gobo library
New library etar located at $ISE_LIBRARY/contrib/library/utility/archive/etar.

upper_bar and lower_bar are now obsolete. Use instead a vertical box where the first item is the upper_bar and the last item the lower_bar.
Vision will now keep windows open even if not referenced. This address a long standing gotcha for beginners. As a consequence, it is critical that code close or destroy windows when they are not needed anymore, otherwise they will be displayed until the application termination.
Fix issue preventing Vision applications to work correctly in SCOOP mode
For proper SCOOP handling, the last instruction in a creation procedure that initializes GUI objects should be {EV_APPLICATION}.launch.
Use a passive region for an application cell to avoid creating a new thread for no reason.
Fix minimum size computation of windows with Aero Glass. When compiling code using the latest versions of Visual Studio, the minimum size of a window was slightly smaller than what it should have been.

Fix invalid computation of null_terminated_strings.
Fix improper wrapping of WEL_HD_NOTIFY we used an INTEGER_32 when a POINTER should have been used (causing some possible loss of data and some memory access violation).