>>Hi Ed,
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>>I originally used the VFP interface and so I have these sca and vca files all over the place. I have since removed the VFP interface due to speed issues and a few other issues. Anyway, I have these sca and vca files scattered around but they are no longer being updated I don't think. I have also added a few new forms etc that do not have the sca files. Is there something I am doing wrong here? Should I somehow be creating these .vca and .sca files?
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>>Paul
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>If you don't use VFP's interface, I don't know how to create them. Without them, you have to check in and out the component files; there's no easy way to diff them, and you have to check them out to recompile the application explicitly, or at least unflag them as read-only, and then what you have in the version may not be synced with what you have in source safe.
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>I normally check out whatever I'm working on ahead of time, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather pay the price of the VSS delays than risk what I'm working on. YMMV. At home and at my own office, I've got a fairly fast LAn and system, so the delays don't bother me, even with large projects. I can work on more than one thing while waiting on VFP to recompile - like reading mail on UT.
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>Having old versions around is not helpful; I'd delete them, since it's just one more way to accidentally break things in an unnecessary way. if someone else hooks up to the project from VFP, you very well might get unpleasant surprises if they check in and check out stuff.
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>Are you using VSS 5 or VSS 6 at this point?
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I am using VSS 6 and I am new to VSS altogether. There are a couple of reasons I do not use the interface one reason is that everytime the project opened it would recreate the pjm files which took some time to do. Another was that I had a lot of issues dealing with the dbc being opened for shared mode. Anyway, so what I do is just check the files in and out directly through VSS which has seemed to work fine, I am just concerned, with the issues you brought up about the .??a files, that down the road I might run into a problem since the .??a files are not being maintained without using the VFP interface.
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>>>Actually, you need to keep the .??A files under source control - these are semi-text files that describe how to recreate their sources (ie .VCA is used to recreate the .VCX/VCT, the .SCA recreates .SCX/SCT, etc.) This avoids the problem of 'cannot update cursor'. If you have used the VFP interface to put things under source control, rather than the brute force method of stuffing things in through the VSS dialogs, this will be done automatically.