ASP.NET & VSS project file is checked out!

[cossiboon]

Greetings!
Recently, our company decided to migrate our website into ASP.NET. In addition to that, we are starting to use Visual SourceSafe 6.0. I have the database setup and all the users added and linked into the VSS database. A problem arises when someone makes a change to a project .aspx file. VSS asks to check out ASP.NET the .vbproj which is also under source control. If that developer checks out the .vbproj file, none of the other developers can access the project since they must check out the same .vbproj file.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Josh

 

[culshaja]

The project sln file should only be checked out when you are adding a new file not modifying an existing one. That is definitely how it works for me. When the user has added a new file they should immediately check the project file back in, and just check out the file that they need.

I would make sure you are using SourceSafe 6.0d.

james

James Culshaw
james@miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.caninerescue.co.uk

 

[cossiboon]

Thanks! That is exactly what is happening. This process just seems a little cumbersome. Also, if I have any other files checked out, those files are checked in when the project file is checked in.

 

[culshaja]

Thats correct. If you want to override it you need to make sure that the silent check in/out option is not selected. You can then deselect the files that you don't want to check in. Its usually just as easy just to check back out the ones you want to work on as you modify them.

James

James Culshaw
james@miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.caninerescue.co.uk

 

[cossiboon]

Hey, thanks again for the quick response. Your help is helping me keep my sanity. I have a couple developers that were commited to Dreamweaver's Check In/Out functions and they are struggling with this concept.

 

[culshaja]

Its well worth sticking with this. You get the ability to rollback changes to earlier versions etc. You can also share files etc across projects if it is done correctly.

james

James Culshaw
james@miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.caninerescue.co.uk