You don't need the SDK for steps 3 and 4.

Here are the steps you need to set the checkin policy on the team project (condensed from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181459.aspx).

1. From Team Explorer, right-click your team project, click Team Project Settings, and then click Source Control.

   The Source Control Settings dialog box appears.

2. Click the Check-in Policy tab and the click Add.

   The Add Check-in Policy dialog box appears.

3. In the Check-in Policy list, select the policy type you want and then click OK.

4. When you are satisfied with the settings for the check-in policies, click OK; the new check-in policy now displays with future check-ins.

Buck

Once the DLL is properly registered and the policy class inside the DLL is public, it will appear when in the UI automatically for "Add Checkin Policy", as when that dialog comes up, we scan the list of registered policies.

The most common problems I see with this are 1) not registering properly (eraniopub's reply with details is good) and 2) the policy class wasn't public.

• regular "how to register": http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2006/02/07/526778.aspx
• 64-bit gotcha: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2006/03/16/553033.aspx

hello.

i developed custom check-in policy using info fron James Manning's Blog.

everything goes smooth and the code compiled, but i have few little questions:

1. you wrote: "Register the custom check-in policy Dll on each machine". where to register the dll?

i put it in the GAC and it didnt recognize it in the "add check-in policy". maybe i shuld put it

in the "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies"?

(i'm out of the office right now so i will try it asap)

2. i understand that i need to deploy this dll to each developer machine, and only in the server i need to Select the custom check-in policy from the dialogue for the Team Project.

is this correct?

thanks in advance.

ok i solve the problem and i want to share the steps involved:
(some of them "copy & paste" from different blogs and artivles).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. build the custom checkin policy dll. (as described in here)

2. copy it to a path on thr local machine.
for example, c:\CheckinPolicies\MyPolicy.dll
(this dll shuld be in each developer machine, include the TFS.)

3.add registry key to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0TeamFoundation\SourceControl\Checkin Policies
of type REG_SZ.
The name should be the class of the policy, and the data is the absolute path to the .dll

4. once you've done that, This MSDN article describes how to add the policy in the UI

note: i created installation package for easy deployment to all machines, but i hope tha in the next TFS version MS will add the comment checkin policy as a build in policy.

eraniopub wrote:

ok i solve the problem and i want to share the steps involved: (some of them "copy & paste" from different blogs and artivles). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. build the custom checkin policy dll. (as described in here) 2. copy it to a path on thr local machine. for example, c:\CheckinPolicies\MyPolicy.dll (this dll shuld be in each developer machine, include the TFS.) 3.add registry key to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0TeamFoundation\SourceControl\Checkin Policies of type REG_SZ. The name should be the class of the policy, and the data is the absolute path to the .dll 4. once you've done that, This MSDN article describes how to add the policy in the UI note: i created installation package for easy deployment to all machines, but i hope tha in the next TFS version MS will add the comment checkin policy as a build in policy.

i will be glad if you post your solution,

best regards,

eraniopub.

http://marius-ono.blogspot.com/index.html