get latest version notification

[hk]

When I run "get latest version" prior to building, or just for fun, I sometimes see text in my output window indiciating which files are being retrieved from the vault (i.e. updated), each begins with a $. But it's unreliable in that I don't see it all of the time. We have been testing this by commiting changes on another machine, followed by a get latest on my machine, and I don't get the message. Yet I know I've seen this message.

Can you explain this?

Also-- If I am in Release mode of VS.NET and I select "rebuild all", wouldn't it make sense to do an implicit "get latest version" first? Does this happen? Can I make this happen? It's just one more thing for me to forget.

Thanks!

+Steve

[hk]

version 2.06, we are evaulating the product

[dan]

When I run "get latest version" prior to building, or just for fun, I sometimes see text in my output window indiciating which files are being retrieved from the vault (i.e. updated), each begins with a $. But it's unreliable in that I don't see it all of the time. We have been testing this by commiting changes on another machine, followed by a get latest on my machine, and I don't get the message. Yet I know I've seen this message.

Can you explain this?

Can you provide a few more details? I'm not quite sure I follow.

Is this from the VS Output pane or the Vault GUI client? Is the issue that the files are not being retrieved when there are new versions on the server, or is it that the messages are not being displayed, but the files are correctly being retrieved?

If this is the IDE, you might check it against the Vault GUI client, where the status is more easily visible. One other thing to note about the IDE is that there can be a delay of up to 30 seconds before it will notice that a file has changed on the server.

Also-- If I am in Release mode of VS.NET and I select "rebuild all", wouldn't it make sense to do an implicit "get latest version" first? Does this happen? Can I make this happen? It's just one more thing for me to forget.

This is controlled by Visual Studio, which decides when to make calls into the source control backend. I don't think there is a setting in VS that controls this, although there is one that does a Get Latest when you open up the IDE. Check Tools->Options->Source Control in VS.