RE: SubWCRev.exe weirdness when used in website .NET project

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From: Roger Lipscombe [mailto:roger_at_differentpla.net]
Sent: 18. mai 2009 13:07
To: dev_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: SubWCRev.exe weirdness when used in website .NET project

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Nick Gilbert <nick_at_x-rm.com<mailto:nick_at_x-rm.com>> wrote:
Roger Lipscombe wrote:
> Visual Studio evaluates dependencies _before_ the pre-build actions.
> You'll need to push the code that updates Version.cs into a macro,
> rather than a build action. We have the same problem in our C++
> projects (we generate Version.h2 from Version.h).
Not sure what you mean by "evaluates dependencies". Are you saying it
takes a copy of all the files and stores them elsewhere? I still don't
understand how it can still see the old file AFTER the file has been
modified. Where is it reading it from to get the old values?

Nick..

At least in C++ projects, Visual C++ compiles the .CPP files into .OBJ files. It will only recompile the .CPP file if it's newer than the .OBJ file. Unfortunately, it checks this _before_ it runs pre-build actions. This means that, if your pre-build action updates the .CPP file, it will be ignored and the older (incorrect) .OBJ file will be used instead.

I assume, based on the description, that something similar's going on with C# files as well -- it's ignoring the .CS file, because it doesn't spot that the pre-build action has modified it. I assume that it only part recompiles the assembly, leaving the "unchanged" files in there from last time.

Now, C# could be completely different, and I could be completely wrong, but I figured that it might be worth your while looking into a pre-build macro, rather than a pre-build action. It's a mess, but it might work.

Cheers,
Roger.

How about introducing a utiliity project that is a dependency of your main project? This project updates your Version.h (say, in a pre-build action), before your main project checks which files need to recompile.

Oddvar

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