Course DEV11

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Course DEV-11
Team Development Ted Roche, MCSD Blackstone
Incorporated http//www.bstone.com
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Ted Roche

• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
• Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
• Contributing Editor, FoxPro Advisor
• Author, Hackers Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 and
  6.0

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Agenda Team Development

• Visual SourceSafe
• Project Objects Hooks
• Anomaly Tracking System

45 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes
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Visual SourceSafe

• Nearly Automatic Backups
• Ability to trace source history
• Support for multiple programmers
• Prevents lost code

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SourceSafe Issues

• Visual Studio Service Pack 2
• SSSCC.DLL Build 2220 crashes VFP
• Norton Anti-Virus for NT 4.0
• Performance slow when installed
• VFP 5.0, NT 4.0 without SP3 very slow
• Users cannot checkout simultaneously

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VSS The mechanism

• Works within Project Manager
• PJX file modified to support
• PJM file is the PM text-equivalent
• Additional menu options
• Can be manipulated programmatically

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VSS The Demo

• DEMO

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Integrated Source Code Control in Visual FoxPro
VSS Store
Network
.PJMFile
Local.PJMFile
SCCTEXT
SCCTEXT
Local.PJMFile
LocalSourceCode
LocalSourceCode
LocalPJX
LocalPJX
Workstation
Workstation
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VSS The challenge

• File-server, not client-server
• No Web interface
• Poor on low bandwidth connections
• Difficult to share projects between multiple
  sites
• Opportunity ActiveX

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VSS Sources of Info

• Admin Help file
• Command line interface
• http//www.microsoft.com/ssafe
• Office ? VSS integration
• Automation Documentation

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Project Objects Hooks

• Great feature!
• Hook your code to run when developer interacts
  with Project Manager
• Automatically log actions
• Develop metrics

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_VFP.Projects Count
Project Object Methods
Build CleanUp Close Refresh SetMain
_VFP.ActiveProject
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Files Object
Project Object
Properties CodePage Description Exclude FileClass
FileClassLibrary LastModified Name ReadOnly SCCSt
atus Type
Methods AddToSCC CheckIn CheckOut GetLatestVersio
n Modify Remove RemoveFromSCC Run UndoCheckOut
Files Count
Servers Count
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Project Object
Server Object
Properties CLSID Description HelpContextID
Instancing ProgID ServerClass ServerClassLibrary

Files Count
Servers Count
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Project Objects Hooks

• DEMO

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More on Projects

• DEV-06 Managing Projects and Class Libraries -
  Doug Hennig
• DEV-08 The Visual FoxPro 6.0 Framework and How
  to Extend It- Lisa Slater Nicholls

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Anomaly Tracking System

• Track All Project Issues
• Automated To-Do List
• Great Metrics
• When Found
• When Fixed
• How Many
• Weak Areas

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Anomaly Tracking System

• DEMO

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More on ATS

• CSW-06 Creating Applications with Internet
  Explorer 4.0 and Visual FoxPro - Ken Levy

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Thank You!
Ted Roche, MCSD Blackstone Incorporated
http//www.bstone.com [phone]