Re: Feature for the small portmonee

First of all I'm sorry about your mails not getting through to the list.
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> as an experienced developer first of all congratulation for that
> stable and very useful software.
>
> I want to issue a feature request that is necessary for a simple but
> elegant Tortoise integration in VS2003/2005/2008.
> The Integration in VS 2003/2005/2008 is possible with the following
> steps:
>
> Open the menu "external tools" from "Tools" in main menu.
> In the dialog add a new entry with the items as shown in pic1.jpg.
> Open from the menu "Tools" the item "SVN Browser".
> With these steps you can use the Tortoise SVN perfectly in VS. When
> you open a solution and you want to browse the solution directory in
> the repository via the "SVN Browser", the variable "$(SolutionDir)"
> gives the exact the base directory for your solution. No explorer is
> needed to grab the right path etc.
>
>
> A nice idea right, but unfortunately there is a bug in
> VS2003/2005/2008. This bug leads to a malformed path string returned
> from VS in "$(SolutionDir)". In the path string is a character
> appended that leads to the malformed path that Tortoise SVN (V1.4.8)
> cannot process. So you have to open the explorer again and grab the
> right path, damned.

I've googled for "VS 2005 SolutionDir" but found no indication that
there is a bug. Also I've never seen that $(SolutionDir) or any other
path variable would get an extra character appended.
What's the character that get's appended for you?

Note: I have a custom toolbar in my VS2008 with several TSVN commands,
most of them using the $(SolutionDir) variable and never had such problems.

> No problem at all because we have an OpenSource - Project. All I've
> done is to integrate a small line of code as a workaround until MS has
> fixed the problem in VS. Here are the lines of code you need:
[snip]
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> BEGIN CODE INSERT /////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> // remove wrong trailing char '"' when Visual Studio vars ($
> (ProjectDir) etc.) are used
>
> sPathArgument.Remove('"');
>
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> END CODE INSERT /////////////////////////////////////////////
[snip]

Please use TSVN to create a patchfile with your changes.

> It would be a big help when this workaround could be added to the
> repository of TortoiseProc, so I dont have to patch this all the time
> I update my local copy of TSN. By the way MS will probably solve the
> problem not before 2010 ;-).

Since I don't have this problem, can you maybe tell us what command line
you're using for your custom tool commands?

(oh, and please first subscribe to the list: as I said the moderation
doesn't work right now so unless you subscribe, your mails won't arrive
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Stefan

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