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Posted on by Martin Dráb 237,967 Most Valuable Professional

I'm preparing automated build of Dynamics AX 2009 environments from Visual SourceSafe repository. I'm familiar with TFS, but not with SourceSafe.

I followed the usual approach - get .xpo files from version control (ss get), combine them and import to AX. It works, but there is a problem - when AX developers call "Add to Version Control", the object is immediately inserted to SourceSafe repository (with Action = "Created"). Such an object is not finished (and commited) yet, but it is returned by Get, therefore included in a build - and that can easily broke the build.

AX synchronization seems to ignore items with "Created" action only (no "Checked in"), so this can be a solution for building environments. But does it mean that I can't simply use Get command in SourceSafe if it contains code from Dynamics AX?

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    Hi martin,

    On our automated builds on ax4/ax2009 using visual sourcesafe we have written a small programm that after the ss get will parse the xpo files and delete the "empty" xpo files. Having this the created files will be ignored during build.

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    Hi Thomas,

    what exactly do you mean by "empty .xpo"? The files created by "Add to version control" are full valid .xpo's, often containing a lot of code (forms copied from lower layers, code imported from another environment etc.). If you mean looking into SourceSafe for history of each object and removing files without "Checked in" action, I'm aware of this option (but you may know some better approach) - that's what I mean by being unable to simply use Get command (in other words, the Get command itself is not enough to get correct version of code).

    If I have to do such things to get code from repository, I consider such a repository as corrupted. Rather than writing a script deciding what what files returned by Get should be deleted, I would change SS integration in AX not to add files to repository before they're checked in. But I wonder why such thing was implemented in the first place.

    To get files from SourceSafe simply by calling Get (+ CombineXpo; no further processing) is recommended by Microsoft in How to: Create an Automated Build Process (for AX4) - do you say that it doesn't work for AX4 either?

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