Visual Studio Websites and the Bin Folder (again)

[jchorlton]

Hello,

Firstly sorry for this being a repeated topic, but I have tried searching the board but have been unable to find the answer. I am hoping to get a definitive answer to the following:

How can I ensure that the enhanced SourceVault client checks in the Bin folder for Visual Studio Websites. The issue being that DLLs (such as AJAX) do not get checked in. This in turn means that if one of our developers is off sick (etc) and someone else needs to take hold of a project they are unable to check out the entire website. They are then forced to find any required DLLs (in the correct version) and re-add them to their website.

So the question boils down to, is it possible, and if so how is it achieved, to add the BIN folder (and its content) into source control via the SourceVault VS client (with VS 2008) with regards to VS Websites.

Thanks in advance ,

Jamie Chorlton

[Beth]

When you have a new project that's not in Vault and you use Visual Studio to add it, VS makes the decision about what goes to source control and what does not. Often VS does not add DLLs and the bin folder, and sometimes it does. What you can do with items that VS doesn't add is use the Vault GUI client to add in those items.

Another way to go about this would be to add the entire project to Vault with the Vault GUI client, and then use other functions in VS to bind the projects and solutions. To do that you would make sure that the right client is set under VS Tools - Options - Source Control, and then go to File - Vault Source Control - Change Vault Bindings (Enhanced Client) or File - Source Control - Change Source Control (Classic Client). Use the Bind dialog to bind all the parts of the project and click OK. Then you need to check in the changes. After that, all other users can use the Open from Vault function.

[jchorlton]

Beth, Thanks for the response. I will try that with my next web project.

Thanks

[Beth]

You're welcome. Feel free to let us know if you have further questions.