Build History:Name Object
Build 2408
Released July 2014
- No Changes
Build 2381
Released June 2014
- No Changes
Build 2362
Released May 2014
- No Changes
Build 2288
Released February 2014
- No Changes
Build 2269
Released October 2013
- No Changes
Build 2225
Released July 2013
- No Changes
Build 2214
Released July 2013
- Interface Changes
- Added new GetResultCodeDescription method to return a short or long text description of a result code.
Build 2149
Released March 2013
- Data Quality Suite Global Changes
- Deprecated Licenses - Removed old Grandfather license strings. If your license looks like "12A-23B-123C" rather than "ABdj439=-nd73hBEm2kl1=2nfdHaljksnd" then your license will no longer work.
- Please contact a Melissa Data sales representative to ensure you have a valid license at 1-800-800-6245 x4 or sales@melissdata.com.
- No Change
Build 2057
Released September 2012
- Data Quality Suite Global Changes
- Linux Installer - setup.sh has been deprecated. It now points to main_setup.sh
- Sample Code - Added PL/SQL wrappers
- Functionality Changes
- Legacy license strings can no longer be used to initialize the object. The new license structure is now required.
- Made fixes to allow for non-ascii characters in the name.
Build 1974
Released April 2012
- No Changes
Build 1960
Released March 2012
- No Changes
Build 1895
Released December 2011
- No Changes
Build 1876
Released December 2011
- No Changes
Build 1816
Released July 2011
- Interface Changes
- StandardizedCompany() method added to SQL sample interface
- Functionality Changes
- Fixed various bugs.
- Fixed crash when calling Parse using an invalid license.
- Modified parsing to correctly parse LastName, FirstName when PrimaryNameHint = VeryLikelyFull.
Build 1766
Released April 2011
- No Changes
Build 1730
Released February 2011'
- New Features
- New Result Codes
- Added new result codes to indicate if the first or last name was found in our database of actual census names. Please reference the Name Object manual for more details.
Build 1663
Released September 2010
- New Functionality
- New SetMiddleNameLogic method. You can now control how Name Object handles middle names when the name contains a hyphen.
- New StandardizeCompany method. You can standardize a company name using this method.
- The name object data file has been modified. The older Name Object library will still be able to use the new name object data file, but the new Name Object library will NOT be able to use the old name object data file.
Build 1609
Released June 2010
- No Changes
Build 1567
Released March 2010
- New Functionality
- Interface Change
- New Results property added.
- A Results property was added, which replaces the StatusCode, ErrorCode, and ChangeCode properties, providing a single source of information about the last name processed and eliminating the need to call multiple properties to determine if a particular name was successfully parsed.
- Changed Functionality
- Format of date for GetDatabaseDate(), GetDatabaseExpirationDate(), and GetLicenseExpirationDate() changed.
Build 1492
Released December 2009
- A Results property was added, which replaces the StatusCode, ErrorCode, and ChangeCode properties, providing a single source of information about the last name processed and eliminating the need to call multiple properties to determine if a particular name was successfully parsed.
- StatusCode, ErrorCode and ChangeCode are deprecated
Build 1451
Released August 2009
- Windows NameObject is now compiled in Visual Studio 2008. Running setup.exe will ensure the necessary libraries are installed. However, if you are installing the objects manually, you may need to install Visual Studio 2008 C++ x86 redistributable, which can be found in extras\redist.
- A 64bit version is now available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX. To install, manually copy over the correct library for you system. Windows libraries are compiled in visual studio 2008. You may need to install Visual Studio 2008 C++ x64 redistributable, which can be found in extras\redist.
Build 1378
Released February 2009
- Updated and changed PrimaryNameHint Property to now have the following input options:
- DefinitelyFull
- VeryLikelyFull
- ProbablyFull
- Varying
- ProbablyInverse
- VeryLikelyInverse
- DefinitelyInverse
- MixedFirstName
- MixedLastName
- Details of these new input options can be found in the Name Object Manual.
- Deprecated
- The SecondaryHint Property has been deprecated and is no longer functional.
Build 1352
Released August 2008
- Initial public release
- Multi Platform, new version, new interface, incompatible with legacy Name Object. Please refer to product page for details.
- Deprecated Version
- Name Object Build 151 version 2.1.3.0 - Released: 03/15/2005 (Windows)
- Name Object (“NameObj.dll”) has been officially replaced with Name Object II (“NameObj2.dll”) released on October 15th, 2008. Existing Name Object installations will continue to work but Melissa Data will not offer support or code fixes after January 1st 2009.
Build 151
Released March 2005
- Updated name parsing capabilities.
- Added ‘THE’ to prefix table.
- Removed ‘DIR’ from the suffix table.
- Changed ‘CO’ from all uppercase to mixed case.
- No longer replace ‘AND’ with ‘&’ when returning data.
- Fixed to no match a suffix if there’s no vowel in the suffix string.
- Added ‘STUPID’ to the list of vulgar words supported.
- Parse "Mike or Ryan Smith" as "Mike or Ryan" in first name and "Smith" in last name.