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Sourcesafe searching

I need to do a significant search through my SourceSafe 8 database to support a refactoring exercise.

I have a list of about 250 differant stored procedures that are called and need to work out where in the application. Are there any tools that improve on the standard search so that I can search for any instance of any of these procs or is pulling the code into another database my best bet ?

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Don't laugh but I still use SourceSafe 6... but there is a Find in Files option from the tools menu that will do a search within files for a specific string... do you have that available in version 8?

Shawn Steward  2009-12-17 16:12:46
I'm not laughing because you use SourceSafe 6, but the fact that you use SourceSafe at all...(not trying to be a jerk, but SourceSafe burned me one time and it is the only piece of software I can say that I absolutely despise).
JasCav  2009-12-17 16:14:40
Yeah that's what we have at work... at home I'm using SVN now and like it much better.
Shawn Steward  2009-12-17 16:16:01
I can use find in files; but its 1 search string at a time; and the results output is terrible.
u07ch  2009-12-17 20:12:34
You may be best off writing a quick little app to do this for you. The SourceSafe objects work really nicely in visual studio. Seems a lot quicker too.
Shawn Steward  2009-12-17 21:18:29

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