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Manny Silva - 06 Nov 2006 17:25 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a way to connect to VSS in a Visual Studio macro. I am
relatively familiar with writing macros in VS2003. I can get the solution
and enumerate the projects. Visual studio is tracking those projects and
their items as source controlled objects. It seems to me that there ought to
be a relatively simple way to query a project and get its related VSSItem
object. If I could bridge that gap, I think everything else that I'm trying
to accomplish would be rather straight-forward, but currently I cannot figure
out how to do that.

Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. If there
is a better newsgroup for this question, please let me know.

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Thanks in advance for your help,
Manny

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 15 Nov 2006 03:36 GMT

Hi Manny,

You can use IVSSDatabase.VSSItem to get the VSSItem directly. For more
information, please check the following link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.sourcesafe.i
nterop.ivssdatabase.vssitem(VS.80).aspx

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Manny Silva - 16 Nov 2006 16:08 GMT

Kevin,

I appreciate your response, but what I am actually looking for is a way
to get the VSSItem within a macro, given something within the dev studio
environment... that is... I have the DTE object, and from that I can get
the solution object... and from that I can enumerate the projects in the
solution... and the dev studio environment is obviously tracking the fact
that these projects are connected to source control... and so it stands to
reason that somehow there ought to be a way to query the solution object or
the project object and either get a VSSItem (which would be very nice) or at
least get enough information to open a VSS database and locate the project
that corresponds to the given project within the solution. Does this make
sense? I don't think that your response addresses this, or if it does, I am
somehow failing to make the connection. What I would like to be able to do
is enumerate through my solution, and if any projects in my solution are
connected to source safe, then I get hold of the source safe object that
corresponds to that project. To me it really seems that this ought to be
possible... am I just being a dreamer here?

Thanks again,
Manny

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 17 Nov 2006 05:20 GMT

Hi Manny,

As far as I know, in IDE macro, we cannot get the VSSItem. Because the IDE
didn't provide an interface to get this. In this case, you have to parse
the .scc file in the same folder as the .sln file to get the project
information in VSS. Then use VSS automation to achieve this.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Manny Silva - 21 Nov 2006 15:42 GMT

Thanks Kevin,

That sounds like the approach I need to take.

Manny

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