Joe,

>I recommend automating VSS (via COM) from VFP to always get the latest files and then do the build. It would be easy to write a small PRG that set default to the build folder, gathered all the files, and performed the build, maybe even delpoying files to certain locations for testing, etc.

I don't know if you could automate the build from a different directory since the project files are not in SourceSafe. But that's if you use the integrated option. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, here is some sample code that gets the latest version of some files to a directory other that the default working directory. BTW, the interview went well. Really a nice place.

	* Create sourcesafe object
	oSourceSafe = CREATEOBJECT('SourceSafe')
	oSourceSafe.Open("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Vss\SrcSafe.INI","duhlman","")

	* Get latest app data
	* Open the appdata project
	oVSSItem = oSourceSafe.VSSItem('$/2002/casclient2002/appdata/')

	* Save the current working directory
	cCurrentDir = oVSSItem.LocalSpec

	* Change the working directory
	oVSSItem.LocalSpec = 'T:\Appdata'

	* Get the items
	oVSSItems = oVSSItem.Items()
	bUpdatedAppData = .f.
	FOR EACH oNode IN oVSSItems
		
		IF FILE('T:\appdata\' + ALLTRIM(oNode.Name))
		
			IF oNode.IsDifferent
			
				oNode.Get
				bUpdatedAppData = .t.
				
			ENDIF
		
		ELSE
		
			oNode.Get
			bUpdatedAppData = .t.
			
		ENDIF
			
	ENDFOR


Dan