>Thanks for all the suggestions. One big concern that I had was the files were all read-only, and I guess I didn't think to take that flag off before I recompiled. I will have to try this option, as well as not integrating VFP with VSS and see how much easier it is to work with.
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>--Thom

Personally, we are using VFP with PVCS Version manager, and from what I see it works fairly simmilar.

A few things...

1. If you use the version control software seperatly from VFP you will have to check out the .VCX, .VCT seperatly, while VFP will check them both out for you.

2. During out devlopment we are making our .vcx files very lean, with one or maybe two classes in each... (the form class and the biz obj used by that form) Once we are ready to go into beta we will use the class browser to move everything around to some logical groupings. This allows us to not have to do as much fighting for the librarys, since source control works at the file level not the class level.

3. The project thing is a pain and doesn't work with PVCS VM very well. I guess in VSS when you check out a text file it merges with the existing text file. VM doesn't do this. So, when the .PJM file is checked-out it over writes the local one causing a loss of anything that was in the sharded project that was not in the common project.

4. Thanks for the reference to that article, I am sure the SCCTEXT mods will help us alot!

5. While VFP allows multi-developers to modify the .DBC I would not recommed not having local copies. What I did is set up a shared data directory. This contains the .DBC that the projects point to. Then I created a prog called getdata.prg that will copy the shared data to the local data dircetory. This way, while you are running the program, you are not using the shared data. Also, the shared sample data does not get modified unless it is done on purpose.

BTW: I would love to write a program that automates our project update, but I can't find the functions that will generate the .PJM file? Anyone know them?

I figured I can manually gen the .PJM, then check out the shared one. I can compare them and add any files to the shared .PJM that are not in it. Then check that file back in?? Any help???

BOb