SourceGear Support

Hi there,

At my current employer we have a lot of Excel VBA code which gets/puts lots of csv style files into VSS (a strange use case I admit!). I imagine we can use the vault API to do something similar? I did a quick search on the support forum but could not see an example. I'm not the programmer responsible for this but i just wondered at a high level if there is a way to reuse our existing code with your API and just swap it out? Or, would we have to re-code our application specifically to make use of your API? Perhaps really just changing the connection string used to reference the vault server?

Sorry for a slightly muddled question, basically we use excel VBA code to checkin/checkout VSS files and wonder how difficult it would be to 'upgrade' our VBA code to use vault instead if we go down that road.

Thanks
Iain

You could either use our Client API or shell it out to our command-line client.

To find out Client API information, there is a .chm file that is included in the API download. That's the official documentation. We also have a forum area devoted to just working with the API and it has a lot of examples: http://support.sourcegear.com/viewforum.php?f=39.

I'll check with someone who knows the VSS API to see if they think they're very similar and post back.