VSS and Web apps

[Harry Simpson]

Anyone out there successfully using VSS to store web apps. I've tried to
follow the best practices article from MS but it just doesn't work
correctly.

TIA
Harry

 

[Bryan Bolling]

I have been using VS .NET Enterprise Architect 2003 and VSS 6.0 and the
integration is much better than I expected. Very easy check-in and
check-out.

Bryan

 

[Karl Seguin]

What's your problem? We've got it working here...

Karl

 

[Harry Simpson]

We'll we create a virtual directory for the files for IIS to point to and
create a directory structure such as:

C:\Projects
C:\Projects\MySolution\
C:\Projects\MySolution\MyProject

Create the virtual directory to point to the last path above. Then add a
blank solution called MySolution. To it add a web app project called
MyProject and set the location to http:\\localhost\MyProject.

Then I click on the solution and select Add Solution to VSS and it does just
great. I can check it in and check it out just fine. If i check out an aspx
page change one thing and then check it in, I always get the following
message:
"some reload or shell operations were cancelled or caused errors. You
should close and reopen the solution before making further changes."
and then appears to check everything in just fine.

But when i go to VSS server explorer it shows
MySolution
MyProject
MyProject1
MySolution
MySolution1

weird eh.....I'm running 6d as a client and who knows what version is on the
server since we've been using the same VSS database for years.....

Any ideas?

Harry

 

[dave]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

We followed the article quite closely (except for the number of servers) and
the system has worked very well.

Anyone out there successfully using VSS to store web apps. I've tried to
follow the best practices article from MS but it just doesn't work
correctly.

TIA
Harry

 

[Harry Simpson]

Ken,

I followed the article closely too. It did work initially other than
getting an information message:
"Some reload or shell operations were cancelled or caused errors. You
should close and reopen the solution before making further changes."
occasionally.

I was running VSS 6a to start and it seemed to work ok cept for the above
message.

I upgraded my VSS 6d and ran into an issue whereby the project was added to
sourcesafe db from the project and appeared added correctly.

MyWebAppSolution
MyWebApp
MyWebAppSolution

Then I'd ceck out the project but when I checked it back in it would create
a duplicate of the subdirectories as follows:

MyWebAppSolution
MyWebApp
MyWebApp_1
MyWebAppSolution
MyWebAppSolution_1

weird eh.....

Harry

 

[Harry Simpson]

Also,

When i first add the project to VSS database it suggests the name
MyWebAppSolution.root

Why does it try to add ".root" to the solution name??

TIA

Harry