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Hi,

I have just installed the trial version of your software. The client application works very well but I am having a problem with integrating with the .Net IDE.

All seems to work well other than the files checked out by other users are not showing as such (they do in the client version of your software). If you try to check out one of these files then an error is returned saying 'An error or user cancellation occured during the checkout'. Is there something I have missed while setting this up?

Thanks,

I should also add that I have only tried this with files checked by users using VSS not SourceAnywhere.

Hi rjames,

The VSS API does not provide a way to obtain the exclusive checkout status of a file.

So when a file is checked out by another user, SAW is unable to show the exclusive checkout status of the file.

I can understand that you may not be able to get the full info from VSS, but what I don't understand is why you can display the info in your client software but not in the .Net IDE. It will be a pain if a user doesn't know a file is checked out until they try it.

Hi Rob,

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

SAW can get most checkout info, but the problem is that SAW can not know if a file is EXCLUSIVELY checked out by user or not.

In IDE, if a file is checked out by other user, SAW returns SCC_STATUS_OUTOTHER (which means the file is checked out by other). Since we do not know if the file is exclusively checked out or not, we can not return SCC_STATUS_OUTEXCLUSIVE (if return this, a checkout icon will be shown, but the IDE will prevent the file from being checked out).

Although the checkout status is correctly returned, the problem is that .NET IDE does not show a corresponding icon for the status of SCC_STATUS_OUTOTHER.

This behavior of SAW is the same as VSS if ?Allow multiple checkouts? is enabled in VSS. You can see it by yourself. The steps are:
1. Start VSS Admin
2. Select menu Tools->Options
3. In General tab, check ?Allow multiple checkouts?
4. Check out a file
5. Start your .NET IDE and log into VSS with another user name
6. You will see the checkout status is not correctly shown either.

In SAW explorer, the icon is shown by SAW itself, so we can show the checkout status.

Thanks.