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Resolved Is there SCC API documentation so we can write our own plugin?

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  1. Tom Peters
    Tom Peters
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  3. Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:08 PM UTC

Good Day!

Our source control vendor is no longer supporting their SCC Plugin for PowerBuilder. We would like to build our own, but I cannot find the API documentation. I found the documentation for using SCC in PB IDE, but not the actual API documentation, if any exists.

This is new territory for us, so please forgive my lack of knowledge here.

Thanks,

Tom

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:44 PM UTC
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Hi Tom;

  The old SCM plug-ins were normally using the Microsoft SCC API standard as supplied by MS in their SCC SDK ...

FYI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/source-control-plug-in-api-functions?view=vs-2022

Regards .. Chris

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Tom Peters
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  1. Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:52 PM UTC
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Thanks, Chris. I am starting to think it's time to switch to Git. laughing

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:56 PM UTC
Yes, GIT or SVN might be a good idea. ;-)
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Bruce Armstrong
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  1. Wednesday, 13 March 2024 14:25 PM UTC
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Second the recommendation to look at Git or SVN (preferably Git).  Also be aware that the plans for PowerBuilder 2025 call for an option to have the IDE store the source code in clear text rather than in PBLs, making them directly accessible without having to go through any kind of plugin.  With the current versions you still need to use the options in the PowerBuilder IDE because it needs to export/import the source into the ws_objects folder when interacting with Git and SVN.

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:14 PM UTC
Nope .. it's like PB Classic to PB.NET in version 11.x - a one way "no return" trip. ;-)
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:42 PM UTC
Except that this is a trip that doesn't require code changes, the underlying runtime hasn't changed, no unsupported features, etc. Basically PB.NET was a bad trip... anybody that actually tried PB.NET will know what I'm talking about.
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Roland Smith
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  2. Monday, 7 October 2024 19:46 PM UTC
I don't see there being a technical reason why Solution mode couldn't support SCC API. Forcing someone to change source control providers to take advantage of a new feature seems a bit extreme.
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Tom Peters
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  1. Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:25 PM UTC
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Thanks, Bruce. This would be great.

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