Cool trick of the day - VSS keyword expansion

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• Tremendously cool thing! Now...if someone could come up with a regular expression which puts : //$Header: $ at the top of all .cs files in a 'safe' way...my day would be made :-)
  

• Not so cool - we have VB source code that has been in near constant maintenance since 1997. By now the history is more like an anthology!
  
  
  
  So we now have a new rule: the source code is only a snapshot of how the code works right now. History is for the VSS history dialog.
  
  
  
  

• Dancan: I see what you mean. Still, lots of other good keywords there that I think could be of use..
  

• Duncan: Im with you. When we made the transition to CVS, I went through and stripped all the history out of our .cs files.
  
  
  
  Replaced $History with $Id $... So, at the top of the file, I get a one line summary of filename, date/time last committed and who committed it.
  
  

• Also you could add a region (Vb.NET) around the history....
  
  
  
  #Region " File history "
  
  
  
  ' $Header: $
  
  
  
  '
  
  
  
  ' $History: $
  
  
  
  '
  
  
  
  #End Region
  
  
  
  That way you only see the history if/when you want...
  

• In following-up with my last question-
  
  I found the solution. It is using the extended comments in VB (to achive multi-line grouping). Please see example below.
  
  #Region "VSS Log"
  
  #If Comment Then
  
  $Log: $
  
  #End If
  
  #End Region
  
  Thanks, Prabhu