VSS Integration Demo

Let’s say I’m working on a bug … bug number 3712:

I've fixed the bug, and now I'm ready to check in the fixes. As usual VSS prompts me for a log comment:

I'll add the comment, but I'll also add the bug number that I was fixing, by inserting a line of the form BugzID: 3712 in the comment, as shown here:

VSScommits my changes, and logs them to a journal.txt file.  Later a Windows script is run and notifies FogBugz of the submission.

Now when we go back and look at the bug, we'll see a Checkins line:

This line contains two links. The first link, with the file name where the change occurred, links to the VSS log:

The second link shows the revision number of this file (3), and links to the exact diff that I just checked in:

Besides making it easy to keep checkins matched up with bug reports, I can now assign the fix to another developer and ask them to check my fix. They will be able to click one link to see the exact change I made which makes it easy for them to review it.