Posted by Jeremy
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:28:00 GMT
SourceGear recently sent out the first of its quarterly newsletters. Since this is the first mass mailing we’ve done in a long time, we keyed it off of the email addresses we had in our sales system. Since in some companies the person buying Vault may not be the person using Vault, it’s worth it to mention the newsletter here, to see if any developers and managers missed out on it. You can read the first newsletter here.
Some guidelines we tried to follow:
- The newsletter should not be too frequent. Quarterly is enough.
- The newsletter should be informative. The first one has a feature on the new Image Paste and Edit feature that’s in the Fortress Eclipse client in beta 1, and coming for the Visual Studio client and the standalone Windows GUI for beta 2.
- Communication is a two-way street. We want to hear from customers, and have included a poll in the newsletter, as well as a direct email address for the newsletter’s editor.
To sign up to get future newsletters, go to: https://csp.sourcegear.com/preferences.aspx. This will require you to sign in with your email address to our Customer Service Portal, but once that dance is done, you will get fresh information pushed to you every three months or so.
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Posted by Jeremy
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:07:00 GMT
One of the goals of the 4.1 development cycle was to begin the process of updating our web client to make it as cool as the web sites that some of our customers are creating as they use Vault and Fortress.
I’ve already blogged about the Tag Clouds, which brought along quite a bit of Dynamic HTML (yes, we’re about 8 years late to the DHTML party). The feature I want to highlight for this post is the new Web Diff page in the Source Control section of the web client.
You can view an example web diff here. Remember to log in using the guest1 through guest9 username with the username as the password. There are quite a few awesome features to talk about.
- Unified diff. This is the first place in Vault where we’ve shown a Unified Diff. All our other diff tools were concerned with migrating changes between the two versions, so unified was never a good option. Now that it’s in web diff, I love it. You can still load up the traditional side-by-side, but be prepared to scroll.
- Line Wrapping. This mode will wrap long lines, to reduce scrolling.
- Lines of context. Select the lines of context also. Please note that the three settings above are saved in a cookie, so that you can always get the view of differences that you want.
- Version Selection. You can also quickly select the versions of the file to diff from the dropdown.
- Transaction Details. To get the details for the transaction that created a particular version, you can click the Details link.
All of this was done by Jeff Hostetler, the same developer who brought us the wonderful SourceGear DiffMerge app, which is currently available free of charge.
With all of the changes modernizing the web client, we’re all excited about the release of .Net Framework 3.5, which includes built-in AJAX support. Expect an even richer web client experience in the future.
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Posted by Jeremy
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:27:00 GMT
For those of you trying the Fortress 1.1 server beta, here’s something that we added that is pretty cool. We publicly stated in the release notes that 1.1 has support for Saved Queries in the web client. What we haven’t mentioned yet is that you can also use saved queries in the RSS feeds.
To set up an RSS feed for a Fortress server, subscribe to a URL that looks like this (please pardon the wrapped URL):
http://FORTRESSSERVER/Fortress/Feeds/BugTrackingFeed.aspx?user=USERNAME
&password=PASSWORD&pid=PROJECTID&qname=SAVEDQUERYNAME
I’ve set up an example feed for the guest7 account over on fortressbeta.sourcegear.com. Here’s the URL if you would like to subscribe to it, to see how it works in your aggregator.
Sample RSS Feed
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