It is a small world! Glad I could help out.

There was a session about working with Umbraco/Visual Studio at CG09, there is a write-up about here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/codegarden-2009/open-space-minutes/working-in-visual-studio-when-developing-umbraco-solutions

We’ll catch up next time I’m up in Liverpool!

Cheers,
- Lee

Just started working with Umbraco and was trying to work out the best way to this, funny how it was your blog that led me to the answer!

I’ll get you a pint the next time your in Liverpool

Cheers,

Simon

It has been both interesting and annoying trying to maintain source-control with Umbraco (or any other web-based tool for that matter)!

Obviously the database has been the biggest problem. Keeping developers in sync is a tricky task. We got around it by making “master” changes on our central development Umbraco install (aka. our staging server) and then taking a copy of the database at certain points (weekly, daily, sometimes more often).

That way we all have the latest version of the content. We’ve only done this with a team of 3 or 4 developers – so it’s been easy to manage the process.

Umbraco v4 has improved the experience, as we can store Master Templates and CSS in the SVN, outside of Umbraco (without fear of being over-written).

In a nutshell, it’s been a case of good management amongst developers, with the lead developer being responsible for maintaining a “master” version of the development Umbraco install. Which is copied back across the other developers when it’s needed.

I’d be interested to hear more about other developer’s experiences with Umbraco in a larger dev team.

but does this mean you only store the files like
templates / css(umb4.0) / xslt / script files in SVN
how bout everything else.

we work with many people at my office
the thing is, projects tend to switch from 1 dev to another / or several others.

sometimes developing with several devs at the same time. which then would give issues database related no?
if i create a template, someone else renames it, etc…
and how do you store all other data from the database in SVN, you would have to put dumps of your database in SVN then?

The stuff I said in my other post is correct. Get the Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects.

Once you have followed the steps in adding a deployment project to your solution, right click on the deployment project and Open Project File.

In there, look for this xml node.

<Target Name="AfterBuild"></Target>

Uncomment it, and add these lines inside it.

Here is the whole thing for completeness.

<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)bin\**\*.dll">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="binFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(binFiles)" DestinationFolder="D:\Dev\bin\%(FilesToArchive.RecursiveDir)" ContinueOnError="true" />
<CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)css\**\*.*">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="cssFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(cssFiles)" DestinationFolder="D:\Dev\css\%(FilesToArchive.RecursiveDir)" ContinueOnError="true" />
<CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)usercontrols\**\*.*">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="usercontrolsFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(usercontrolsFiles)" DestinationFolder="D:\Dev\usercontrols\%(FilesToArchive.RecursiveDir)" ContinueOnError="true" />
<CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)scripts\**\*.*">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="scriptsFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(scriptsFiles)" DestinationFolder="D:\Dev\scripts\%(FilesToArchive.RecursiveDir)" ContinueOnError="true" />
</Target>

Now I can get on with the PAYING work.

My C# web project in VS.NET 2005 does not have a “Project > Properties > Build Events” option.

I have done some research and it seems I need something called MSBuild which I think is part of “Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects”.

You can read this Blog about it here..

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx

I have not yet worked out how to add the simple xcopy commands or anything like them yet but I am working on it. If anyone reading this has done this with VS.NET 2005, please post here how you did it.