How do I sync the SVN revision number with my ASP.NET web site?
stackoverflow.com has a version number at the bottom: "svn revision: 679" I want to use such automatic versioning with my .NET web, win forms, wpf projects/solutions....
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Document Server: Handling Concurrent Saves
I'm implementing a document server. Currently, if two users open the same document, modify it and save the changes, document's state will be undefined (either the first user's changes are saved permanently, or the second's). This is entirely unsatisfactory. I considered two possibilities to solve this problem. The first is to lock docum...
SVN Revision Version in .NET Assembly w/ out CC.NET
Is there any way to include the SVN repository revision number in the version string of a .NET assembly? Something like Major.Minor.SVNRev I've seen mention of doing this with something like CC.NET (although on ASP.NET actually), but is there any way to do it without any extra software? I've done similar things in C/C++ before using b...
What is the best way to handle files for a small office?
I'm currently working at a small web development company, we mostly do campaign sites and other promotional stuff. For our first year we've been using a "server" for sharing project files, a plain windows machine with a network share. But this isn't exactly future proof. SVN is great for code (it's what we use now), but I want to have ...
Repository organisation
When I first started using revision control systems like CVS and SVN, I didn't really understand the concepts of the "trunk", branching, merging and tagging. I'm now starting to understand these concepts, and really get the importance and power behind them. So, I'm starting to do it properly. Or so I think... This is what I understand s...
Solution deployment, CM, InstallShield
People, We have 4 or 5 utilities that work in conjunction with our application. These utilities are either .bat files, or VB apps, PowerBuilder, etc. I am trying to manage these utils in source control, and am trying to figure out a better way to assign versions to them. Right now, the developers use the version control's meta-data -- s...
Displaying version of underlying software in footer of web app?
I am thinking about providing the version of say, the database schema, and the dlls for business logic in the footer of my web application. Is this advised? Are there any pitfalls, or pointers of how to do this best? Usability concerns? I already have a version scheme, for both schema and dlls, used in my CI solution. ...
How to "unversion" a file in either svn and/or git
It happens to me all the time. I accidentally version a file, I do not want to be versioned (i.e. developer/machine specific config-files). If I commit this file, I will mess up the paths on all the other developer machines - they will be unhappy. If I do delete the file from versioning, it will be deleted from the other developers mac...
Version Control for Graphics
Say a development team includes (or makes use of) graphic artists who create all the images that go into a product. Such things include icons, bitmaps, window backgrounds, button images, animations, etc. Obviously, everything needed to build a piece of software should be under some form of version control. Should the graphics people u...
How do you do version a Web Application?
What are the strategies for versioning of a web application/ web site? I notice that here in the Beta there is an svn revision number in the footer and thats great for an application that uses svn over one repository. But what if you use externals or a different source control application that versions separate files? It seems eas...
Force JavaScript file refresh on client
We are currently working in a private Beta and so are still in the process of making fairly rapid changes, although obviously as usage is starting to ramp up, we will be slowing down this process. That being said, one issue we are running into is that after we push out an update with new JavaScript files, the client browsers still use t...
Getting files and their version numbers from sharepoint
As a temporary stopgap until all the designers are in place we are currently hand-cranking a whole bunch of xml configuration files at work. One of the issues with this is file-versioning because people forget to update version numbers when updating the files (which is to be expected as humans generally suck at perfection). Therefore I ...
Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects
What is a good setup for .hgignore file when working with Visual Studio 2008? I mostly develop on my own, only occasionly I clone the repository for somebody else to work on it. I'm thinking about obj folders, .suo, .sln, .user files etc.. Can they just be included or are there file I shouldn't include? Thanks! p.s.: at the moment I ...
Subversion or Adobe Version CUE 3 for Photoshop/Illustrator Files
This might seem like a stupid question I admit. But I'm in a small shop me plus two designers. Our backups are getting out of hand because they just copy/paste files if they need to make a change (version). I was all set to try Subversion to handle all of our files my text (code) files and their photoshop/illustrator and asset files. T...
Best Versioning Tools to use for Photoshop/Illustrator and related binary files?
I previously asked about Version Cue 3 vs Subversion. I think this is a better question and someone suggested http://www.gridironsoftware.com/Flow/ I hope this question will allow others to join in and suggest other tools or give specific recommendation to using Version Que versus other tools. ...
Database Design for Revisions?
We have a requirement in project to store all the revisions(Change History) for the entities in the database. Currently we have 2 designed proposals for this: e.g. for "Employee" Entity Design 1: // Holds Employee Entity "Employees (EmployeeId, FirstName, LastName, DepartmentId, .., ..)" // Holds the Employee Revisions in Xml. The Re...
MSI Installer fails without removing a previous install
I have built an MSI that I would like to deploy, and update frequently. Unfortunately, when you install the MSI, and then try to install a newer version of the same MSI, it fails with a message like "Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue..." appears. The MSI was built with a Vi...
How do I get the Click Once Publish version to match the AssemblyInfo.cs File Version.
Every time I publish the Application in Click Once I get get it to update the revision number by one. Is there any way to get this change automatically to change the version number in AssemblyInfo.cs file (all our error reporting looks at the Assembly Version). ...
Interfaces and Versioning
I am designing a new System and I have a lot of Interfaces that will grow over time with the system. What is the best practice to name this interfaces ISomethingV01 ISomethingV02 etc and I do this public interface ISomething{ void method(); } then I have to add method 2 so now what I do? public interface ISomethingV2:ISometh...
How do I export (and then import) a Subversion repo?
I'm just about wrapped up on a project where I was using a commercial SVN provider to store the source code. The web host the customer ultimately picked includes a repository as part of the hosting package, so, now that the project is over, I'd like to relocate the repository to their web host and discontinue the commercial account. How...