VS2003 and Vault (not really vault!)

[uberbloke]

Hi, hoping a Vault user can offer some advice / help

We have a major web based application in Classic ASP.

This is stored in VAULT and we use the vault client to check the files out we want to edit.

We are now transitioning to VS2003 (VS2005 is NOT an option) and will start converting some of the application to asp.net.

BUT, we are really confused by the whole solution/project issue and how to get a solution into vault so we maintain the history we currently have, plus how all our developers get the solution/project out to their individual work area.

Tried google and search and the like for this but am still not entirely sure how to transition our VAULT gui use a VS2003 usage

SUMMARY. What do we need to do to get VS2003 and VAULT to work together so that all our developer can just pick it up and run with it in ASP or ASP.NET when we already have an existing Repository with years of history for our ASP application?

Thanks for any advice / pointers

(Vault 3.5.2)

[lbauer]

You can integrate Vault with Visual Studio by creating source control bindings. This means the solution and project files are associated with specific locations in the folder tree.

To do this, one person needs to open the web app. Then in VS 2003, under file->Source control, select Change Source Control. You'll get a Change Source Control dialog. Select the solution file listed in the dialog. Click the Bind button. You'll get a login dialog to Vault. In the Vault tree, select the folder where the solution file resides in source control and click "bind.". Do this for each item in the Change Source Control list. If this is successful, you'll have a checkmark in the Conneted column for each solution/project and the status will be Valid. (Note: the Server Binding column will show <unable to display> This is normal and not an error.)

Once the project has been bound to source control, the other developers on your team should do a fresh open from source control into clean working directory to retrieve the project with its proper bindings. This is under File->Source Control->Open from Source Control in VS 2003.

[lbauer]

For more information about IDE integration and Vault, see the section about Visual Studio IDE integration in our KB index:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=792