AccuRev is an award-winning process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution designed for today’s Agile, complex parallel, geographically distributed and offshore application development environments. AccuRev’s stream-based architecture is designed to ensure optimal team collaboration, improve software asset reuse, and accelerate the software development process by 30 percent. Together, AccuRev and Microsoft Visual Studio are ideal for complex, geographically distributed, parallel, and Agile application development.

AccuBridge for Visual Studio PE integrates AccuRev deeply into Microsoft Visual Studio, providing developers with the full palette of AccuRev functionality without having to leave the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio environment. With AccuBridge for Visual Studio PE, developers can perform AccuRev queries, execute operations, and see ToolTips showing the AccuRev status of every file in your solution within Microsoft Visual Studio.

Full integration between Microsoft Visual Studio and AccuRev change package functionality enables true issue-based engineering workflows. Developers benefit from the ability to manage an issue-based workflow in AccuRev directly from the Microsoft Visual Studio client via AccuBridge for Visual Studio PE. Microsoft Visual Studio developers gain transparent, stable, and highly functional SCM capabilities with stream-based process automation, software asset reuse, and private workspaces through the integration.

AccuBridge for Visual Studio PE Features

Supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010

Provides full-integration and optimal performance for AccuRev operations such as Keep, Promote, file move and rename operations – developers can "live in Visual Studio" and still derive all the benefits of AccuRev

Integrates change packages between Microsoft Visual Studio and AccuRev for full-featured issue-based software development

Offers sophisticated support for AccuRev diff and merge functionalities

Displays history views: Browse and diff against active history; "Compare With" menu exposed for differencing between private workspace and history; populate workspace with selected version

Provides full access to AccuRev queries directly within Visual Studio

Presents visual aids (including icons and ToolTips) for quick information on SCM status of projects and files

Supports projects spanning multiple AccuRev workspaces

Improves performance through background processing of AccuRev commands