I’m experimenting with Understand 2.0 to see how it behaves when references are limited to a particular kind.
I had Jason Madrid, one of our Understand database gurus, patch in a filter in a central spot that would limit all database references to just declares and defines.
He gave me a file, which didn’t work. So before I go bug him again, I’m going to try and sort this out on my own.
First off… what did he change?
Well, here TrackBack helps quite a bit. I just load it up in the TrackBack history by hitting the 
icon.
This pops up the most recent current file and compares it to TrackBack’s last automatic backup made when I copied the new file in:
Now I can see the changes, but not all of them. At least not without scrolling to the right. But since I really don’t care about the left pane, instead I hit the 
icon which shows the right pane only. I can hover over the if I want to see the right pane plus the text of the current diff from the left side. Anyway, now I can see everything, and it becomes clear to me what I need to do:
Ah ha! He had done exactly what I said “I’m looking for defines and declares”. But that actually doesn’t give me what I want – I have to have “definein and declareins”.
So, right there in the RIGHT side of TrackBack, which is a full capability editor, I make the change.
I then send him a the difference:
Start my build by pushing my “make understand” user tool (I’ll cover that tomorrow) and then proceed on with my day.
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