Re: Excel diff script (extended version)

OK, thanks. Can this script be integrated with TFS?

Simon Large-6 wrote:
>
> On 2 July 2012 10:35, Tommy Petersson <tommy_at_bogleboo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found this in a Google search and I wonder if this can solve our
>> problem
>> (and how to implement it)?
>>
>> We need to be able to merge an Excel document including a VBA macro. At
>> the
>> moment we need to check out the document exclusively, make the changes,
>> run
>> the macro which creates 5 source files, build and test the program -
>> during
>> which time no-one else can change the Excel document. We need merge
>> functionality.
>>
>> We use Visual Studio and TFS, but diffMerge could be replaced with
>> TortoiseMerge, I guess. What else need to be done? caveats?
>
> The script you have referenced does not use TortoiseMerge at all.
> TMerge only works for text files. The script is just using Excel
> itself to do the merge, which is the only possible way since the file
> format is proprietary.
>
> Simon
>
>> kippspan wrote:
>>>
>>> I've finally gotten around to doing this simple little update. Here is
>>> the unified difference:
>>>
>>> Index: C:/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/Diff-Scripts/diff-xls.vbs
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- C:/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/Diff-Scripts/diff-xls.vbs (revision
>>> 19)
>>> +++ C:/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/Diff-Scripts/diff-xls.vbs (revision
>>> 21)
>>> @@ -38,10 +38,8 @@
>>> 'Create a compare side by side view
>>>
>>> objExcelApp.Windows.CompareSideBySideWith(objExcelApp.Windows(2).Caption)
>>> If Err.Number <> 0 Then
>>> - objExcelApp.DisplayAlerts = False
>>> - objExcelApp.Quit()
>>> - Wscript.Echo "You must have Excel 2003 or later installed to use
>>> compare side-by-side feature."
>>> - Wscript.Quit 1
>>> + objExcelApp.Application.WindowState = xlMaximized
>>> + objExcelApp.Windows.Arrange(-4128)
>>> End If
>
> <snip large chunk of script>
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