- update dependency versions

fixed not creating some of the application varibales with wait_for_new_data despite they were specified as push inputs

Updated to use the new ReadAnyGroup instead of the old readAny function. Some tests are still hanging or failing (mostly due to shutdown issues)

Use one file per class. Also, use boost::core::demangle instead of
checking for abi::__cxa_demangle by ourselves.

We have a visitor now for generating
 - the XML
 - the Module's dot graph
 - the textual dump of the VariableNetwork
 - the dot graph of the VariableNetwork

It inherits two functions from its two base classes. Explicitly use the
one from ApplicationBase.

add enable_latest_cxx_support.cmake and added a comment to enable_cxx11_support.cmake to no longer use is.

use a different work around for the thread_local problem: moving the code using the thread_local specifier to the cc file also solved the problem and does not require a complicated work around using a map...

Ignore configuration files for Visual Studio Code.