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Hi,

I have solution with several projects. I need to start new project which relay on existing project.
To be more clear the DB, Backend.... projects remain the same and I need to add new front project which for starting point has the same files as the old front project.

I can duplicate the old front project to new front project (I think I can do that, what is the normal way for doing so?) but I think that there might be better way -

something like the new project will point to the old project, in this case the new project will “know�all the necessary files and if I want to change any of the files, only in this case I will need to create a copy of the file in the new project and modified it.

Is there a way to create this?????

10X


BTW - I had tried this - create the new front project with the old one as dependence project. The new front program file (start-up file, main function in it) is a copy of the program file from the old frontproject.
When running the new or the old front projects everything looks good (looks exactly the same).

Now I add to the new front project one of the files (with the same name and namespace ...) and change it. When running (the new or the old projects) the old version is running and not the new one. Probably because the code that calls to the changed file is from the old project and it doesn’t knows the new version at all. Meaning I need a way (simple
J) to override a file in the old project from the new project. Any ideas?



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Shauli_z  Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:16 AM

Hi,

>I can duplicate the old front project to new front project (I think I can do that, what is the normal way for doing so?)

In VSS, you can branch the solution and then modify the branched solution according to your needs.

>When running (the new or the old projects) the old version is running and not the new one.

How did you run the solution? To run the new solution, you can open it from VSS through your IDE and then run it.


Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution

Catherine Sea  Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:06 AM

Hi,

>I can duplicate the old front project to new front project (I think I can do that, what is the normal way for doing so?)

In VSS, you can branch the solution and then modify the branched solution according to your needs.

>When running (the new or the old projects) the old version is running and not the new one.

How did you run the solution? To run the new solution, you can open it from VSS through your IDE and then run it.


Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution

Catherine Sea  Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:06 AM

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