Show Pending Checkins

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:50 am

I am having two issues with Vault...

1. Within the VS.Net IDE I want to be able to use the Show Pending Checkins facility however whenever I select this option I get "Unspecified Error" a few times before an empty "Show Pending Checkins" screen appears even though I have files ready to checkin - both editied and new files.

2. Occasionally the IDE will hang if I select View Designer for a WinForm and the only option is to use Task Manager to delete the process. I cannot pinpoint this exactly as I can go a full day without issue, or have 10 issues within an hour. I believe it is related to Vault as if I select the Work Disconnected option then I have no issues.

I am using VS2003; Vault 3.1.7 (3719);

We have recently moved to Vault as our source code control provider however due to these issues there is now talk about moving back over to Microsoft SourceSafe.

Hopefully you can help !

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:57 am

1. Within the VS.Net IDE I want to be able to use the Show Pending Checkins facility however whenever I select this option I get "Unspecified Error" a few times before an empty "Show Pending Checkins" screen appears even though I have files ready to checkin - both editied and new files.

Is this a new problem? Does it happen with a particular project or any project? Can you check in the files successfully even though the Pending Checkins screen is empty?

I'd suggest enabling IDE logging, then reproduce the error and we'll take a look at the log:
http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=2898

2. Occasionally the IDE will hang if I select View Designer for a WinForm and the only option is to use Task Manager to delete the process. I cannot pinpoint this exactly as I can go a full day without issue, or have 10 issues within an hour. I believe it is related to Vault as if I select the Work Disconnected option then I have no issues.

We have had some isolated reports of the IDE hanging in Design view and but I don't thing we were able to reproduce the problem. I'll check with our developers and post back.

Are you able to determine any pattern to the hang? Does it happen with all projects?

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:33 am

-----Is this a new problem? Does it happen with a particular project or any project? Can you check in the files successfully even though the Pending Checkins screen is empty?------

This problem has always been there and happens in all of our solutions and projects. I can select each file individually and then checkin without any problems. I will try to capture a log and repost back here.

-----Are you able to determine any pattern to the hang? Does it happen with all projects?-----

It happens mostly when we select View Designer on any of our forms. Some of these have lots of controls on them where others only have a couple of controls, and both types of forms suffer the same hang, so we have never got to a pattern yet. One thought we had went along the lines of as the Vault database is a SQL Server repository, what would happen if we had exceeded the number of licences available for the SQL Server database server - but this was purely theorising !

dan · Post by **dan** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:10 pm

Does the hang look like the one described here:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=4113

If so, we've tried to reproduce this in house, but have never been able to. You might need to send us your solution to see if we are able to succeed with yours.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:23 am

Does the hang look like the one described here:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=4113

If so, we've tried to reproduce this in house, but have never been able to. You might need to send us your solution to see if we are able to succeed with yours.

Substitute winForms for webForms, and vb for c# and yes it does look the same.

Hopefully I can get a log produced pretty soon.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:48 am

Attached are two sets of logs for two different scenarios.

1. IDE crashed when trying to view a form in the designer
2. IDE hung when trying to view a form in the designer

Under both of these scenarios I followed the following process...

1. Double-click the .sln file via explorer to launch the IDE
2. During this I was forced to log in through the Vault login screen
3. Once the IDE was open, I double-clicked the winForm to launch the view designer (both times I tried to open the same form)

Between scenario 1 and 2 I rebooted my laptop.

I enabled the unmanaged C++ logging via the registry, as well as the DevEnv logging and the GUI Client logging (however this last one never created a log)

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:04 am

As with the other reports of this problem, the log file is not showing any activity during the time of the hang, so it is happening outside Vault.

One workaround that worked for another customer with this problem was to go the project that inherits from UI.Page, then go to References->System.Web, and toggle the "Copy Local" property to False. In his case, we suspected the problem was some kind of locking issue when copying the system dll from the GAC. Since Vault is a managed app being called from within the unmanaged VS.Net application, it may be an platform issue between the two.

If that doesn't help, you might need to send us your entire solution to see if we can reproduce it here. I'll be honest though and say that we haven't had luck reproducing it with other solutions before, so it would be unlikely to help much.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:10 am

I will do this and monitor for any effect.

I have also attached logs captured with reference to my first problem

1. Within the VS.Net IDE I want to be able to use the Show Pending Checkins facility however whenever I select this option I get "Unspecified Error" a few times before an empty "Show Pending Checkins" screen appears even though I have files ready to checkin - both editied and new files.

Any thoughts on this?

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:11 am

oops

I'll attach the file this time

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:50 am

Check the status of the files $/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.vb and $/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.resx in the Vault GUI client. Are they anything other than "edited", and are the they checked out properly?

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:01 am

Check the status of the files $/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.vb and $/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.resx in the Vault GUI client. Are they anything other than "edited", and are the they checked out properly?

They do not have an edited status as I simply checked them out then did Show Pending Checkins. They are checked out exclusively to me and everything looks fine via the Vault GUI Client.

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:30 am

The log file isn't quite showing the info we need. I've created a temporary debug one with more logging in it. Send me your email and I'll get it out to you.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:02 am

just PM'ed you

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:25 am

I have attached a new log file after copying those new DLLs.

The process I went through was....

1. Double-click the .sln file to launch the IDE, during which I had to log into VAULT
2. Once the IDE was open, right-click on the .sln file within Solution Explorer and select Show Pending Checkins
3. Numerous "Unspecified Error" messages were displayed followed by a blank Show Pending Checkin form
4. Close the IDE, again an "Unspecified Error" appeared.

Also, with regards the devenv.exe hanging, I have changed all references so they are now "Copy To Local = False" and have not had an issue in 24 hours

- so fingers crossed!

dan · Post by **dan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:09 am

The log isn't showing anything unexpected. Note the lines in the IDE log:

02/23/06 10:13:29 | Exit SccQueryInfo(), pContext=40378744, nFiles=2, ret=0
02/23/06 10:13:55 | Enter SccCloseProject(), pContext=40404136

After getting the status on all the files (which didn't report any problems), it later started closing everything down, presumably after the attempt to show the pending checkins.

One thing of note:

$/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.vb and $/PlasmaSolution/UIContractsProject/NewUnit/frmNewUnitWizard.resx

are both checked out to a different machine than the current one - is that expected? You might check Properties in the Vault client for their check out location, and verify they are checked out to the current machine.

However, that shouldn't be causing the problems you are seeing.

Another suggestion would be to do an Open From Source Control on a different machine and see if you get the same problems. If you don't, there may be something about the state of the project on your machine that is not right, and you may need to re-open the project to a different working folder and see if that resets everything.