Injecting variables into checked-out source code

Question

Is there a way to automatically inject "variables" into the comments of source code upon checkout?  I'm interested in things like:

-- revision number

-- change history

-- copyright date

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John Lilley CTO DataLever Corporation

Answer 1

Hi John, 

Thanks for your post.

Do you mean that you want to inject the  Revision number, Change History and Copyright date as the variables into Check Out windows? Or when the source files be checked out, display that variables as the columns in Source Control Explorer?

If misunderstood anything, please describe your question in more detail and we will be able to provide the better responses.

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John Qiao [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

I mean that I want to be able to automatically embed information into the comments of the source files themselves as they are checked out, for example:

// Copyright (C) <years> <company>.  All rights reserved.

// Revision: <revision number>

// Checkout date: <checkout date>

// Modification history:

// <revision1>: <date1>, <comment1>

// <revision2>: <date2>, <comment2>

etc

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John Lilley CTO DataLever Corporation

Answer 3

Hi,

you could use TFS Checkout event and parse files that are checked out. You can find an usefull example how to use checkout event here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/CSTFSAddCheckOutEventType-673d0536

I hope it will help you

Regards,

Ivan

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Ivan Kardum
PMP, MCSD, MCPD, MCTS:TFS
Blog: Kardum Software Development Storyboard
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