Question

Basically I am working on a project where I can select an excel document within clearCase and run my ribbon program which updates the tables onto it. What I want to do in VisualStudio is make it so that the document, gets checked out when you run my addin, but then checks it back in once it is done running.

Is this possible?
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work properly with the answer I stated before because what it ends up doing is adding another version to your branch instead of creating another version in the main branch, I fixed this issue with this:

    void GetVersions(string sourcefile)
    {
        ClearCase.CCElement element = m_CC.get_Element(sourcefile);

        if (element != null)
        {
            ClearCase.CCVersion latestVersion = null;
            FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(sourcefile);

            latestVersion = element.get_Version();
           if (latestVersion != null)
            {
                ClearCase.CCBranch branch = latestVersion.Branch;
                ClearCase.CCCheckedOutFile file = latestVersion.CheckOut(ClearCase.CCReservedState.ccReserved, "", false, ClearCase.CCVersionToCheckOut.ccVersion_SpecificVersion, true, false);
                string path = file.ExtendedPath;
            }
        }
    }

    void checkIn(string sourcefile)
    {
        ClearCase.CCElement element = m_CC.get_Element(sourcefile);
        element.CheckedOutFile.CheckIn("", true, sourcefile, ClearCase.CCKeepState.ccKeep);
    }

This way you can check it back in using your own branch to create another version for the main document. This is really important when using source control.