Question

We have a Web Site Project, (not a Web Application), and we need a way to track version changes on web pages. The .dlls are no problem, the problem is keeping track of the current version of a web page in the production server.

Is there a way to do this with TFS? I was thinking maybe a plugin the automatically placed some commented code physically on each modified web page indicating a version number and last modified date, for example. But I am really at a lost here.

I know one alternative would be to change the project type to Web Application, however, it’s a big app and that would be a big project involving a lot of testing.

EDIT: What I ultimately need:

I need a way to identify the version of a web page on the production server. Like I said this is simple with dlls because they carry their version, but web pages don’t have any versioning on the file itself. So that we can check the production server, look at a file and know which version it is.

Answer 1

One of my co-workers solved this problem by building a Visual Studio Addin which shows all the changed web page files and gives you the option to set the next version or define one yourself and write it to the file.