Source Code Control for Microsoft Access Developers

SOURCE CODE CONTROL
For Microsoft Access Developers
09.02.2017 © Philipp Stiefel - www.ivercy.com 1

BENEFITS OF SOURCE CODE
CONTROL

SPEAKINGVERSION HISTORY
 Defined state
 Atomic, consistent change sets
 Comment for changes
 (Optional) link to work items / tasks in ALM-System
 Label /Tag significant versions
 Search the history
 Easily compare individual files from any label / tag
 Automatic backup of AccessObjects with comments and context

CENTRAL CODE REPOSITORY
“SINGLE SOURCE OFTRUTH”
 Defined, central storage of the source code*
 Optionally accessible globally
 Independent of file shares and local storage
 Permission management for authenticated users
 Any write access is logged by definition
*= Requires additional work with DVCs

“GATED COMMITS”
ENFORCEMENT OF RULES, AUTOMATICTESTS
 Depend on features of your SCC-System
 Validate comments
 Check work item-/task-linked
 Validate formal coding standard
 Force code review
 Automatic build after each commit
 Run tests automatically after each build

BASE FOR AUTOMATIC BUILDS
 Automatic builds based on the repository files
 Independent of the local developer computer
 After Commit or time controlled
 Continuous Delivery

SUPPORT FOR PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT LINES
 Tools for parallel development lines
 Branch & Merge
 Diff & History
 Parallel development lines will be less painful, but they will not be
pleasant

ANY BENEFIT I DID
NOT
MENTION?

COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE DEVELOPERS
 All previously mentioned arguments are even more important
 Exclusive Check-Outs
 Display of SCC-Status (Checked-out / Out-of-date / Modified)
 Diff & Merge help to resolve conflicts

WORKFLOW WITH SOURCE CODE CONTROL
1. Either A) Create project in repository and add current version of
all files
or B) Get current version of files
2. Optional: Check-Out files for editing, optionally lock them
3. Edit files
4. Optional: Merge the changes of other developers with your own.
5. Check-In / Commit – Add the new version of files into the repository
6. Optional: Label /Tag the version in repository

FILES! - ?

WELL, OK, ACCESS IS A FILE BASED
DATABASE

ACCESS IS FILE BASED, BUT…

ACCESS-SCC-ADD-INS
 Microsoft Access 2010 Source Code Control – Add-In
 Ivercy
 OASIS
 Several open source projects

ACCESS-SCC-ADD-INS
 Export Access-Objects as text files
 Integrate Commands / Control the SCC-Clients
 Display SCC-Status (Exclusive to Ivercy + MS-SCC-Add-In)
 Checked-In, Checked-Out (Exclusive), New (Not controlled)
 Extended status information (Exclusive to Ivercy!)
 Out-of-Date, Modified (locally), Pinned, Deleted

INDIVIDUAL ACCESS OBJECTS
 Access.Application.SaveAsText
 Forms, Reports, Queries, Modules and Macros in text format
 „Data and Misc Objects“
 Binary file
 Tables, Database properties,VBA-Project-Properties, References, and
Commandbars

ACCESS SCC INTEGRATION
VISUALIZED

IVERCY DEMO

FURTHER READING / LINKS
 Ivercy - Seamless source code control integration for Microsoft Access
http://www.ivercy.com/
 The 10 commandments of good source control management
https://www.troyhunt.com/10-commandments-of-good-source-control/
 7 reasons to use source code control for Microsoft Access development
http://codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?Lang=2&targetDoc=reasons-source-code-control-microsoft-access
 Single User Source Control
http://ericsink.com/item_10134.html
 Version Control by Example
http://ericsink.com/vcbe/index.html
 Martin Fowler – Various texts on version control
https://www.martinfowler.com/tags/version%20control.html
 How to choose a source code control system for Access development
http://codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?Lang=2&targetDoc=choose-source-code-control-microsoft-access
 „Pro Git“ – E-Book
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

GLOSSARY
 SCC – Source Code Control
 VCS –Version Control System
 DVCS – DistributedVersion Control System
 Repository – Storage unit for different projects, their versions, source code and
history
 SCC-System /VCS – Software for version control (z.B.TFS, SVN, Git, etc.)
 SCC-Client – Client Software for your SCC-System
 MSSCCI – MicroSoft Source Code Control Integration – API-Specification von MS for
SCC Clients
 CheckOut-Edit-CheckIn – SCC workflow paradigm, shaped by MSVisual SourceSafe
 Edit-Merge-Commit – SCC workflow paradigm, shaped by Subversion

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