Deleting a file programmatically

[daveharruk]

Hi,

I'm using Vault 4.1.0.16216, and am writing a Visual Studio 2008 package which needs to be able to remove a file from a project, including from source control. When I remove a file from a project programmatically, it ends up listed as "missing" in Vault after checking all changes back in, whereas if I remove it manually using the Visual Studio menu command, it is correctly deleted from Vault. Therefore I am wondering if there is any API or command line utility that I can use to delete the file from Vault in my code; the deleted file is correctly removed from the project in both cases; to remove the file in code I'm using the IVsProject2.RemoveItem method. If anybody has any ideas about how I might accomplish this, I'd be grateful.

Cheers,

Dave Harrington.

[jeremy_sg]

You should be able to use the Vault command-line client to delete the file:

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"c:\program files\sourcegear\vault Client\vault.exe" -host myvaultserver -username user -password mypassword -repository "Repository Name" c:\path\to\file.txt -commit

[daveharruk]

Jeremy,

Thanks, I will try that out - I guess it's not ideal as I'll need to store the server/username/password details somewhere, as well as decide whether the file is under source control in the first place, but it would work.

Cheers,

Dave Harrington.

[lbauer]

Hope this helps.