Is it possible to use Microsoft Skydrive as a source control system where I can check-in and check-out?
SkyDrive doesn't support check-in check-out.
You could use SkyDrive Pro against a SharePoint site (you can sign up for a free O365 development license) which would give you most of what you need but there wont be any Visual Studio integration.
But if all you want is the ability to store your source safely off-box then SkyDrive is fine but you'll need to put the compiled binaries somewhere else like this
I found a way to use it as a kind of source-control. But not direct skydrive, but with svn it's possible.
Just create the repository into the local mapped directory (which is automatically syncronized with the webspace). On a check-in the sources will be automatically uploaded to skydrive
There's also the option of using Team Foundation Service: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/tfs-welcome.aspx
It's a cloud-based TFS. I used the demo and it was very nice.
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In git-hub i noticed that we can download the final programs from the repository. Can we do the same in visual studio team services? Also can i allow users to file bugs for my program using VSTS?.
Thankyou in advance.
Yes, you can download the project using Download zip option when you click on the repo.
Refer the image.
You can develop your own program using VSTS rest APIs to file bugs.
Reference: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/api/wit/work-items
I have two system, one in my office and one in my home. I am working on one Java application. I am facing one problem which is, after completing work in office I need to do it at home. For this before closing the eclipse, I copy the complete project in pendrive then I copy it into my home system, and then able to work from home and able to start from the place where I left the program in office. Same task I need to do, now from home to office.
Is there any eclipse plug-in or any other way available by which I will able to synchronize both the workbench.
There are some plug-in avilable like SVN, CVS but these plugin require one server, static IP address etc which is costly.
Example:- Google Drive
if you install google drive on two different system with same google account and if you do any change in one system then this change will reflect on other system also.
Edited:If you are using a personal computer at work or if the office computer allows it, you can use Dropbox.Create the project in Dropbox and then when at work,all you need to do is import the project (do not copy into workspace).What ever changes you make is persisted in Dropbox.
It sounds like what you need is a version control system, and one that is available as a free service. This allows you to store the code on an external server and have it reachable both from work and home.
Git is very popular these days for good reasons. It has a good Eclipse plugin, Egit, that comes preinstalled in later Eclipse releases. There are several external repositories that you can use, see this question, or just Google. Many offer free hosting for small projects.
This will require a bit of a learning curve, but it will help you greatly.
I use a small (pocket size) external drive. I have eclipse and my workspace on it (and other tools I need) - I can easily plug it into my work or home PC (or client PC if traveling). It works great - just assign it the same drive letter on both home and work PC.
I would also recommend you use a code repository in addition to an external drive to store the source code - CVS, SVN, Git, etc.
I'm writing an app that includes a folder/file explorer. That part is working. However, another app (Astro File Manager) has the ability to backup all of the installed apps to a backup location on the SD card. I cannot find or see the folder(s) where installed apps are stored. Supposedly it is in "/data/apps". My phone is NOT rooted and Astro works fine. Does anyone know what the trick is to seeing these folders/files? Is it possible to do this in B4A? Thanks!
Android doesn't allow you to access other programs files. Astro probably uses the backup API that allows you to backup other programs. However the backup API doesn't give you access to the files.
I'm undecided about CRM at the moment. It's a great tool for the business users but so far for development it's been a bit against the grain. The next problem I need to tackle is how to easily source control javascript used within forms. We use TFS for our source control.
Anyone had an experience or have any ideas on how to do this?
Obvious choice would be to copy and paste the JS in to your source control, but it's also an obvious pain in the rear.
A couple of things that we do in our projects:
We use the Web Resource Utility included with the CRM SDK (actually a modified version of it) to deploy JavaScript web resources to a particular solution. Makes it very easy to keep script files checked in to source control as normal and avoid copying and pasting.
We wrote a custom HTTP Module that we use on local deployments. It intercepts requests for JavaScript libraries and redirects them to a location on local disk. That way, we don't have to actually redeploy the web resources as we test, just the JavaScript files to disk. (Note that this would be unsupported in a production environment. We just do it in our development environments to ease the pain of JavaScript deployment).
I answered a very similar question here - Version Control for Visual Studio projects and MS Dynamics CRM (javascript)
My choice for source control is TFS holding each of the 2011 JScript libraries.
We try to mirror the file structure that Dynamics uses for Web resources in a basic Library project. So version control works as normal, we just don't use the output from the project.
You can also try using the new "CRM Solution" project template (installed from the SDK) and have the ability to deploy from the context menu of the project.
I've had some issues with the template but something to check out.
Hope this helps.
You can take a look on my answer on my own question here.
MS Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK has solutionpackager.exe utility what could split all CRM resources into file tree and you can store them either in git or in tfs.
Any web resource in CRM 2011 is a pain to manage. We just end up doing a lot of copy pasting in and out of TFS 2010 (which has actually caused some problems with poor pastes).
Currently out of the box there isn't an easy way to do it.
Only worry about this if you really need the ability to go back to old versions of web resources. I've found that I don't often have to do this. Remember that the web resources are stored in SQL Server just like they would be if you put them in TFS, so as long as your CRM database is being backed up, you won't lose the web resources. In traditional development, it is important to keep the source in TFS because you can't easily get back to it once you compile and release. With CRM development, your web resources are mostly HTML or JavaScript, so you can always get at the source.
If you really need version control, why not build a quick little console app that downloads all customizations every night and stores that zip file in TFS? True, it wouldn't be as easy to get at older versions, but you should gain a lot of productivity by not having to manually keep TFS in sync. This also has the benefit of storing all customizations in TFS, not just web resources.
Silverlight is the obvious exception here - I would definitely store Silverlight web resource source code in TFS, because it is a "compiled" web resource. You are already in Visual Studio, so TFS is a natural fit anyway.
Hope that helps!
I'm about to start a project where programmers will be contributing from their homes (much like stackoverflow was built)
I want to use some centralized source control, but I don't want it to require the programmers to be online, and the server may come offline from time to time (as at first it'll probably be my desktop machine)
I think I remember Jeff talking about this in some podcast, but I don't remember which one.
Is there a source control tool that works perhaps asynchronically by e-mail?
Programmers could connect to download the latest version, and the checkin process would be sending files to an email account for example
Does such a thing exist?
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to say that I'll be working with .NET (Visual Studio 2008)
It'd be great if it could be integrated into this environment... does GIT (suggested below) support that?
git is basically built with this scenario as one of the major requirements.
Others support it as well, they usually go under the name of "distributed version control system".
You're looking for a Distributed Revision Control, system such as Git, Bazaar, or Mercurial.
I personally like Bazaar because it has good windows support.
I think Mercurial may be the best choice in your case, as it seems to have a Visual studio plugin. It does have a web interface and ssh support, which are probably better options than email, but there is also an extension that allows patches via email.
You could use git for this purpose. It doesn't require access to a centralized server, but you can set one up if you want to. Git differentiates between commit and push/pull, so working offline works great. The git website has great documentation.
git and mercurial will both do this; they allow syncing via emailed patches. Other distributed source control software will probably also work.
Subversion is what Jeff was talking about in the podcast. You can buy VisualSVN for Visual Studio integration. svn works very well offline as you don't need to talk to the server unless you are checking stuff in, or getting stuff out.
Sourcegear vault has an add on that allows this
There's also a free SmartSVN tool for Subversion, which integrates with Windows shell (adding fancy icons that let you distinguish locally modified files from pristine etc).
I've used Subversion and SmartSVN when working from home as well as in the office, and I can only recommend it. Check its features here.