Harvest r7.0 and VCI question

[Anon Anon]

Well, the highly anticipated Refactoring issue with R7 has finally come to light with our group. I am curious as to the best practice in dealing with refactoring using r7.0 with the visual studio VCI.

Additionally, we do have plans to go to 12.0 later this year/early next year.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

[DaveCarmack]

Microsoft has not provided any enhancements or fixes to the SCC 1.2 api's in the past 10 years.
It appears Microsoft is willing to let this library set to fall off the grape vine in favor of .NET.

In light of this, CA has dropped the VCI.NET plugin released in r12 for the newer VSIP plugin
offerred in r12.1 and above.

This new plugin was built on the .NET VSIP library set and does not conform to SCC protocols.
The plugin supports online edit mode (similiar to VCI.NET behavior where a user must first checkout
and reserve a file item for update) and late binding mode (does not require initial checkout and reserve).
SCM bindings are no longer required which makes migrations a breeze.
A SCM Explorer view is installed on the VS IDE (similiar to Eclipse).
Caveats: R12.1 VSIP plugin only supports VS2005 SP1, VS2008 SP1, and VS2010.

Dave Carmack SCM CA Support