posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:56 AM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Watching changes via RSS feeds from VSS / VSTS
I've got a little home-grown code that I hacked together, it runs every 30 minutes and generates an XML file saved on a webserver with RSS items for new checkins on a specified VSS branch. The code is a bit messy to post, but it works using the Visual SourceSafe COM object via get_VSSItem and get_Versions recusively.
It works ok-ish, a little slow, but allows me to see what, when and who has changed files recently.
The Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team have put together a little ASP.NET page that does a similar thing.
However I'd prefer a full source repository viewer like FishEye (works against CVS) from Cenqua which allows you to:
Easily browse for files and directories.
Find the information you need with FishEye's powerful in-built search engine.
See related revisions grouped together as changesets, view these changesets chronologically, and get an RSS feed of recent changes.
They have demo based on the ant source repository.
Extract valuable reports, statistics and graphs from your source history.
We'll have to wait and see how VSTS's Sharepoint project sites compares with their code churn and bug reports.