Budget Tracker Release Notes

Release Date: July 14, 2025

• The main window has been fixed to not shrink when opening another application window.

Release Date: September 15, 2024

• The ability to import/export data to/from an XML file has been dropped.
• The ability to share Budget Tracker data on the network has been dropped.
• Users can now choose where to save the Budget Tracker database file, and there is now a recent files menu item.

Release Date: September 8, 2024

• Users can now switch between organizations by using a new dropdown list that has been added to the main form.

Release Date: July 5, 2024

• The query windows now show total amount, total taxes, and the grand total.

Release Date: June 24, 2024

• Budget Tracker now has expense query and income query windows that let you search for expenses and income by date, category, and description.

Release Date: December 28, 2023

• The Setup EXE now has the correct company name.

Release Date: December 13, 2023

• You can now mouse over an income or an expense to display a tooltip with the full description of the income or expense.
• Windows in the Budget Tracker application now have proper tab indexes.
• You now have an option to search by both category and decription when searching the expenses and income list.

Release Date: August 30, 2023

• Text boxes in Budget Tracker now support spell checking.

Release Date: September 7, 2022

• Income is now displayed in green text.

Release Date: February 24, 2022

• Now showing separate income and expense lists when exporting to Excel.
• Export to Excel now shows total taxes as well as total expenses and income.
• Main screen totals display now shows totals for amount, tax, and totals for tax plus amount.

Release Date: December 21, 2021

• Budget Tracker can now share its data on the network via a WCF service.

Release Date: October 24, 2021

• The Budget Tracker Setup EXE now has a license agreement and the license PDF file is installed to the Budget Tracker install directory.

Release Date: October 23, 2021

• The budget list view can now be sorted by clicking on a column.
• Assembly company name is now Kalculated Decisions and the about box now shows the Kalculated Decisions logo.

Release Date: October 14, 2021

• Sorting the expenses and income by tax or by total now works properly.

Release Date: October 14, 2021

• You can now record the both the amount and the tax for an expense entry and an income entry.
• A DatabaseVersion table has been added to the database and the database creation logic now checks for the database version and will then either create the database if it does not exist or it will upgrade the database based on the current version of the database.

Release Date: October 6, 2021

• The create organization dialog now has the correct title.
• Existing organization data is no longer purged when importing data. Instead, organizations being imported will be added to the database and then the database will contain all organizations that were in the database before the import plus any organizations imported from the data file.
• If an organization being imported already exists in the database (more specifically, has the same name as an organization already in the database), then the user must choose if the organization in the database should be deleted before the organization from the data file is imported. If the user chooses the “Replace” option, the existing organization in the database is deleted. If the user chooses the “New Organization” then a duplicate organization will get added to the database.
• Users must now choose which organization to export when exporting data.
• You can now delete an organization.
• The create organization window is now opened automatically on application startup if no organization has been created yet.
• Database errors no longer occur when starting the application when no organizations have been defined.

Release Date: October 3, 2021

• Added a search button.

Release Date: October 3, 2021

• An organization table has been added to the database.
• The Budget Tracker window size is now persisted across application sessions. The currently selected organization is also persisted accross application sessions.

Release Date: August 28, 2021

• The Budget Tracker main form has been redesigned. It now has separate tabs for each data view. There is an Income and Expenses tab, a Budget tab, and separate tabs for each chart