Does Vault support Disconnected mode?

neal007 · Post by **neal007** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:35 pm

I often travel with my laptop and need to work disconnected. Does Vault 2.x support this?

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:20 am

Unfortunately no - Vault itself does not. It is on our list, but didn't make 2.0. Visual Studio will allow you work off-line (and will simulate file checkouts) when integrated with Vault, but the Vault GUI client itself won't.

neal007 · Post by **neal007** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:40 am

So am I going to be able to use my project on the road is the bottom line, and check it in upon return? I don't use the GUI, I just need functionality in VS.NET's IDE only.

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:09 am

Yes, the VS.Net IDE will allow this. The only catch is that when you bring up the project in the IDE, it will continue to ask for you to login for each project you have in the solution, and only after you've hit cancel for each project will it bring up the dialog asking you to work disconnected.

When you get back into the office, you need to invoke Source Control->Change Source Control, and tell it to connect to the server again on startup of the project. It will then checkout all the files you have modified since disconnecting.

neal007 · Post by **neal007** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:10 am

Thanks, I can deal with that I think!