Source Control Output Window - Kudos
Kudos to the TFC team for finally getting some output in the Source Control channel of the Output window that's actually worth reading!
I did notice one bug though - if Source Control is the first thing to write to the output window, it fails to create a channel to write to (e.g. open VS and immediately do a Get Latest - no output is produced). If I do something else (like a build) that writes to the output window first, then Source Control does it's thing like a champ.
Again, good job! The output from source control was a complete waste of heat in all releases prior to Beta 3 (including VS 2003 and before).
Carl, I'm glad to hear you're pleased with the improvements. There are still a couple more messages that need to show up there and will be fixed for RTM.
Thanks for the bug report. I'm not sure if that one's fixed, but I'll pass it along.
Buck
Another detail I noticed - the Source Control output window doesn't appear until a file has been checked out, but when it does appear, all the output from earlier operations is present.
You are correct. We are successfully logging information to the Source Control pane of the Output Window but we are not activating the window in all cases that we should. One of our developers was looking at this issue last week, so there is a good chance we'll have this fixed for the shipping version of VSTF.
--Ben Ryan
