Is there a Branching Howto for VS2003 web applications

bascdfj · Post by **bascdfj** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:19 am

Hi -
I have perused much of the threads here regarding branching and VS2003, but am still confused. Does anyone know of a step by step howto on branching a Visual Studio 2003 web application using Vault - either integrated with the IDE or not.
We have an appilcation that is shipping as Ver 1.5 and need to start working on Ver 2.0 while maintaing the shipping version. I have tried un-integrating source control (Vault) from the VS IDE and simply copying the code to an entirely new directory, but get the "need a valid URL" error mentioned in other posts. It seems that there are several things hard coded in the VS web application that need changing.

Thanks

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:23 pm

Here's a KB article on branching web projects:
http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=194

Let us know if you have further questions.

bascdfj · Post by **bascdfj** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:35 pm

I have read the article you suggeted - so, once you branch from within Vault, do you create a new project on your workstation to work on that new branch? The article you referred to implies that the original project (on your workstation) will now be the working directory for the Branch after making the changes described in the article, but what if you need to work on both versions at the same time? What is the Best Practice here?
Thanks
Ford

jachay · Post by **jachay** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:37 am

I'm also wondering the exact same thing. Do I create the branch through the Vault Client or the VSS web application first?

Also, we're using Vis Studio 2005, Version 2 (technically Beta 2 at the moment), and I'm wondering if the procedure to branch is different for this version than VSS 1.1.

Thanks!

futura · Post by **futura** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:12 am

I am not for certain, but I believe you would have issues trying to work on the main trunk and branch on the same development box simply because IIS is not going to let you have multiple vdirs with the same name.

I can't think of a way around that, but there are smarter people than I who may have already addressed this.

Best of luck.

bascdfj wrote:I have read the article you suggeted - so, once you branch from within Vault, do you create a new project on your workstation to work on that new branch? The article you referred to implies that the original project (on your workstation) will now be the working directory for the Branch after making the changes described in the article, but what if you need to work on both versions at the same time? What is the Best Practice here?
Thanks
Ford

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Is there a Branching Howto for VS2003 web applications

Is there a Branching Howto for VS2003 web applications

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