I'm working with a large corp customer that have standardized on IBM Clearcase. It works great with all the Java development tools, but when starting up large scale Visual Studio development we have experienced lots of problems, especially with the Clearcase plugin for Visual Studio 2008. For instance:
- Clearcase looses files, especially when adding files to VS project locally
- Merge performs poorly in general. In particular, merge of the VS project file is a source of major headache. Merge of CSS files reports successful, but when we're analyzing it there was lots of errors in the merged file.
- The Update view command is unreliable. Developers doing the Update view command doesn't always get all the latest files, and worse is that they get no message. They work on old files without knowing it, the developers worst nightmare!
If you have any experiences or tips, feel free to contact me or comment!
© Copyright 2009, Tomas Elfving
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I am in exactly the same boat. So far we don't even have basic functionality working w/ ClearCase 7.1 and VS2008. Have you made any progress w/ your problems?
Not really! IBM have acknowledged many of our problems and are working to solve them in future versions, but we have no timetable...
In the meantime, I've managed to get an exemption from the corporate policy to use VisualSVN until IBM can deliver. So we are happy for the moment!
IBM has released fixes for the issues:
1. A fix for a performance bottleneck which would prevent unnecessary server calls and reduce turnaround time during Visual Studio solution load.
2. A fix to an issue that causes the Visual Studio IDE to be pushed to the background after any CCRC operation completes
3. A fix to an issue where the login dialog is hidden behind Visual Studio.
4. A fix to an issue where CCRC.Net doesnot adhere to ccrc diff merge preferences set from within Visual Studio IDE
5. A fix for the issue where upper case and lower case folder entries are created during clearcase operations
6. A fix for the issue where drag and drop of multiple files from outside visual studio into solution explorer displays only one file in Pending Solution Checkins window
7. A fix for the issue where Pending Solution Checkins window is not refreshed when a view private file is renamed in solution explorer
8. A fix for the issue where VS IDE crashes when a file is deleted in Setup and Deployment project
Please contact IBM Rational support to get these fixes
That's great news, Shubh, thanks for the info! We'll probably evaluate it later this autumn.
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