PL/SQL Developer vs. VSS

[TenGor]

Hy,

I'm running Visual SourceSafe and PL/SQL Developer Version 6.0.0.840 and Version Control Interface 1.2.

When i open my project and want to the option "check out files".
I see only my top folder, no subfolder (in which my files are)...
I can't open the top folder as well with a double click on it.

And if i open a file manual the buttons vor "Check Out" are still disabled.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Unfortunately Visual SourceSafe does not know the concept of controlled sub-directories like other VCS tools such as PVCS. Visual SourceSafe uses sub-projects instead, but oddly enough this concept is not encapsulated in Microsoft's own SCC standard, which PL/SQL Developer uses as a common interface to all VCS systems.

As a result, you explicitly need to open a sub-project in order to access its files, which may be cumbersome if you have a lot of sub-projects.

 

[TenGor]

Originally posted by Marco Kalter:
which may be cumbersome if you have a lot of sub-projects.

hm, this is typically Microsoft ...

is there a chance to delete "old" vcs-projects?

 

[Marco Kalter]

I'm not sure what you want to delete. A VCS project merely exists as a history item.

 

[TenGor]

But we create for every new Version of our Software a new folder.
(So we have the old version is stock.)
Within these folders we have sub-folders for every DB-User and different types of Packages.

So i will have for every new Version a new VCS-Entry in the Project-LOV.
And with every Project 2-3 entries in cause of the different sub-folders...

It is a bit confusing if you have there 10-20 entries...
I know that i can delete the history in the registry, but there i see sub-folder 1..x wich contains the Project-Info.
I see that correct that the oldest entries have the highest number?
And i can simply delete these items?

 

[Marco Kalter]

In this case you would indeed need to delete the items in the registry. The oldest do indeed have the highest numbers.

 

[TenGor]

ok, Thanks Marco