Visual Studio Integration

The SCC integration used for older versions of Visual Studio has already made life much easier for countless developers. Now, with the enhanced integration between PureCM and Visual Studio 2005 and later, there is no need to switch applications any more.

Day-to-day Operations

Of course, developers get what they need most frequently: checkout, submit, view history and update to latest. All of these commands bring up the PureCM dialogues with their powerful diff and merge functionality. Being able to work within Visual Studio allows developers to get started with PureCM in no time, dramatically enhancing acceptance and avoiding workarounds.

PureCM Changesets

Thanks to the enhanced VS integration, more PureCM features are now available in Visual Studio. Grouping your checkouts? Preview your colleague's last submitted change before integrating it? You can get this and more with the changeset view added to Visual Studio. Developers will quickly recognise the advantages of these features and start using its power to boost productivity.

Refactoring, Shelving and Merging

Refactoring is not supported via the Microsoft SCC. But now, you get full refactoring support with the PureCM enhanced Visual Studio plugin, which will automatically detect and handle refactoring operations, even when other users are editing the same files. Other advanced features available with the enhanced VS plugin include shelving and merging changes from other streams.

Working with PureCM Tasks (PureCM Professional only)

Thanks to the flexibility of the new Visual Studio integration, developers also get full access to tasks assigned to them or to the group(s) they belong to. This allows them to associate any changes to a task directly in Visual Studio. They can also take group tasks or create new ones if their permissions allow.