I have an MS Project Server site with an IMS / parent project file with over 50 sub-projects that are separate files linked in to the parent file. Each of the sub-projects is maintained independently by different schedulers.
I've noticed that when the parent project file is published, the last modified and last published dates for all of the sub-project files update to be the date of when the parent project was published.
I need to figure out a way to preserve the dates of when each of the sub-projects was last published on it's own. I was thinking maybe set up an enterprise custom field to store those dates, but is there any way to populate an enterprise custom field automatically?
Are there any events I can hook into, maybe one when a project is published, to help with this?
I'm an experienced SharePoint developer, so server-side/C# code, JSOM (PS.js), REST API, workflows... all avenues are open to achieve this.
Looking for any guidance/suggestions that could help out.
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We have a lot of websites with common functionality developed by 3 persons, in the business logic we use a common library project (in a shared directory) so we all use the same functions. This way the corrections and improvements are shared for the following projects or when we recompile an existing project. We have a class for some UI common functions too (loading a ListControl with x data and so)
The problem is with some web parts like CSS, Javascripts, Common Pages (login, configuration, customer management), those we don't know exactly how we can centralize them so we have those parts in the shared project so we don't have to copy paste corrections/improvements manually to the other websites each time...
Example of current website structure:
-MyWebSite1
-Styles.css
-Scripts.js
-Login.aspx
-Funx.cs (Functions specific to this site)
-Consx.cs (Session and other variables specific to this site)
-CommonProject (In a network shared directory)
-FunBusiness.cs
-FunWebUI.cs
-ConsBusiness.cs
-ConsWEB.cs
Is there a way of doing this?
For now the closest we have come to solving this problem is following this article for the Javascript part:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398930(v=vs.100).aspx
We are now investigating using only one reference to a js file and including the other javascript references dinamically and the common CSS and MasterPages parts...
Maybe you can add those common references files as Linked File in Visual Studio. In this way you can maintain one file, while kept in a different location.
From Microsoft:
Link file leaves the file in its current location and maintains a link to the file from your current project.
Another solution would be to create a copy script before compile in Visual Studio. Reference over here.
I have to create a small asp.net-application. The last such web-application I have built was a while ago. At this time, I have saved my classes in the App_Code-folder.
During setting up the web-solution in VS2010, I have seen that VS does no more propose to create the app_code directory (right click on the project, Add asp.net-folder). Is the App_Code folder no more the prefered location to save classes of the web-application and where is the new place to store them?
Update
Thanks to Oded I have received the answer to my question.
If one has the same question as I had, probably he is also not aware (as I was), that there are two different types of projects with their own menu-points in VS: Web-Application and Web-Site. The organisation of these two types is different. For a web-application, the app_code-folder is not proposed in the asp.net-folder-menu . Maybe this information helps someone.
It is the preferred place, but VS 2010 just doesn't automatically create it for you any more.
As you can see from the documentation of app_code for .NET 4.0, it is still the best place for shared code.
In a Web site project, you can store source code in the App_Code folder, and it will be automatically compiled at run time. The resulting assembly is accessible to any other code in the Web application.
I'm using the Subversive plugin for Eclipse/Flex and I can commit the files correctly, but I have to rebuild Data/Services each time and reconfigure return types for each, etc. Does Subversion not provide a way to check/in out Data/Services or must these be rebuilt each time?
If I understand your comment to your question correctly, then it seems to me that it's not a problem of Subversion/Subversive, but a problem of Flash Builder's code generator which is generating/overriding your customized return types.
Maybe there are some Flex project settings files that are not committed. That would explain why you need to rebuild Data/Services each time you open the project.
By the way, if you do commit the project settings files, make sure all the paths are relative paths, so that the project settings can be shared among several developers.
You might find value in this Adobe devnet article about Flex project settings
My partner and I had different local names for the project we were working on so we had conflicts with the settings file.
Is it possible to include the revision number or the name of the tag used for a build on an ASP.NET website when deploying with CruiseControl.net and subversion?
You can use SubWCRev for this. By integrating it into your build script, you can do keyword replacement in your source, replacing with things like the current revision number.
You can also make use of the svn:keywords property for this. The svn:keywords property works on a file-by-file basis, though, and thus expands to the last revision of the file, as opposed to the last revision of the repository as a whole.
Right now I'm working with an ASP.NET website that automatically generates images and stores them in a temporary folder. When working on my local system these go going into a temporary folder that gets picked up by Visual Source Safe which then wants to check them in. As such, I am wondering if there is a way to just exclude that particular folder from source control?
I've done a bit of reading and found that there are ways to do this for individual files, but I haven't found anything yet about an entire folder.
I think you've found one of the main reasons MS went back to projects in VS2008 and in MVC.
It's been a long time since I've used VSS (mainly because it's really out of date now), but most source providers let you exclude files and folders as a setting of the provider, rather than the project under control.
If you can switch to a Web Project rather than a WebSite then do so, otherwise I'd look at updating your source control provider, as this sort of exclusion is easy with Vault, CSV, SVN, Git, VSTS and so on (to name but a few).
Are you using ASP.NET Website or ASP.NET Web Project? The difference is significant enough to solve or promote this problem.
Websites, love to scan the file system and auto checkin.
Projects, checkin only what you tell them to.
Also Visual Source Safe is pretty out dated, most recent source control systems allow you to do what you are asking. SVN and TFS 2008 SP1 do from my experience.
You can also try to right click and pick "Exclude" on the folder, but in the case of a Website I believe this renames the folder.
I'm not sure if this is an option for you, but if you exclude your temporary folder from VSS (delete the folder inside VSS using the VSS UI), the files that go into it should not get "picked up" again.
If you perform operations on a parent project of the temporary folder, you may try cloaking the folder.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x2398bf5(VS.80).aspx
I would suggest emptying/deleting your folder from your website. Have your website on startup create/verify the folder, and on shutdown to clean it up and remove anything in it. This can be DEBUG code only (wrap in #if DEBUG) if so needed. Also add a build script to your project that does this every time it is built also.
Could you just make your application write to a temporary folder that is outside of your website?
e.g. in C:\tempfiles
VSS shouldn't be able to pick it up then.