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Automating Checkins and Builds with VFP and VSS

I use ProjectHooks a lot in my day to day VFP development - for a variety of things: a) copying the completed APP into a test and/or deployment directory b) ensuring version #s are consistent across our remote development team But what I'm always missing is a way to ensure the latest code is always checked in. We deal with a lot of remote programmers so it's really important that if I finish working on something that it gets checked in so if others have to work on it, they can grab it without worry. What I have found is that I can call _VFP.ActiveProject.Files(1).Checkin() and it will pull up the VSS Check-in utility BUT there's one gotcha: it only works if you have the Project Builder open. If you simply issue a BUILD EXE xxx FROM xxx, it won't run. Now I suppose, I COULD do a MODIFY PROJECT _VFP.ActiveProject.Name before hand and then let it go but is that really necessary? I could also force an update by manually calling the internal check-in commands but that's ...