We're running Visual SourceSafe 6.0 (build 8163). In one project, there's an old label I want to do a Get on, but a few files have been added and destroyed since that label was created. Now everytime I try to do a Get on the label - for each destroyed file - I get the warning "File has been destroyed and cannot be rebuilt, do you want...
At work, we are using ASP.net 2.0 and VSS. VSS is a beast, we are continually having issues with people checking out files and there is no branching - makes it crazy. I know SVN/GIT is mainly used by open source developers, are there any downsides to ASP.NET developers using it? I have been pushing for SVN internally, but am thinking GIT...
Hello, I have a VB.net 2005 application in My Documents/Visual Studio.net 2005/Projects folder. When I Add the project to source safe it is adding it in a wierd folder structure like C:\documents and settings\users\xxxxx\Mydocuments...... How do I get it checked in with just projectname.root/project/...... ...
My boss wants me to think about what to use for version control. I am a big fan of subversion, bazaar, mercurial, etc. However, we have a policy at our shop to not use open source tools! Does anyone know of any good commercia/proprietary version control tools? We are a .NET shop and I know about Visual SourceSafe. However, I have heard ...
Hello, I am currently working on Phase 1 of my project and all files are checked into Visual Source safe. How do I version this project as phase 1. I know if it is a single file we can roll back changes etc. After I start working on Phase 2. I should be able to get the phase I project and make any changes as required. Please help ...
I need to register an external application for doing my diffs/merges in SourceSafe 2005. I am easily able to do this with SVN, wondering if VSS has a similar option. Thanks. ...
Some friends of mine and I were talking recently about version control, and how they were using VSS at their jobs, and were probably going to be moving off of that soon. One of them said that his company will likely be going with Team Foundation Server. Eventually, the conversation did get around to talking about some of the open sourc...
I have noticed several times (that is it does not happens all the time, but occurs regulary) that VSS has forgoten my working folder settings and re-set it to be a root of the C: drive. It is very annoying to find out that some of the files you have checked out and been working on are not in the same folder where you expect them to be (...
We have multiple developers working on the same code base. We also are trying to use SourceSafe (6.0) When one developer makes code changes to their local copy, we note it in a list of changed objects for this release. When it's time to compile our next release, we open the "master" copy, update all the changes from SourceSafe to the...
I have a static site of html and css files. It has folders on my computers. I see an 'add files' option in Source Safe 8 but it only copies files from the root folder. How can I get Source Safe to copy the whole folder tree structure and their files? ...
We are currently using VSS 2005 for source control - and please let me start by saying, I've read a lot of posts on Stackoverflow and I realize VSS is the devil. That being said... its what we have to work with now and I have a question about the checkout process. We have the code organized in a certain hierarchy on the vss server, but...
(Formerly: Help! Sourcesafe hijacks Perforce bindings in visual studio 2005) Hi, I'm currently having a problem with a visual studio solution. We're using perforce as our source control provider through the binding mechanism in visual studio. My problem is that every time I open the solution sourcesafe will hijack the bindings and sho...
We are looking for a Version Control System to change our current Source Safe one. We are using it along with Visual Studio. We've failed so far - and the main reason for it is that all the alternatives we see doesn't support one or more features of VSS, especially one that we use widely - file share! What's up with that? Alternatives l...
Currently, I am working on a file that is shared between multiple projects in Visual Source Safe and we have come to a point where we need to update it to be specific to a certain project. Is there a way to safely remove the shared status from the file file? ...
I have been tasked with coming up with a strategy for branching, merging and releasing over the next 6 months. The complication comes from the fact the we will be running multiple projects all with different code changes and different release dates but approximately the same development start dates. At present we are using VSS for code...
I m working on Microsoft Visual Stdio 2005. I am working on ASP.NET. I added project to VSS. I found this project correctly, but other user can't access this. show this error message. and this web project cannot working in vss ...
Hi, I have a scenario in my project where I need to share a single file between multiple projects in the same solution. Back in my Visual Source Safe days (Shudder), I'd use the "Share" option to allow me to make changes to this file in any of the locations. Then once it was checked in I could guarantee that the other locations will get...
I would like to use WinMerge as the default diff tool inside VS2008 from the solutions explorer in place of the "Compare..." context menu item. Is this possible? I'm looking for a quick replacement of the current bland diff tool an I just like WinMerge better. I'm not interested in going to the folder explorer and doing the comparison th...
PREFACE: Yes we're moving away from VSS in the next few months. One of my web projects contains, as one of its files, a PDF. The PDF on our QA site is being pulled from VSS. A QA tester recently told me he's being prompted for a password when he tries to open it. VSS says the file I have on disk is different than the one it has, so I u...
I'm wondering if there's a way to manage VBA code authored in Excel 2007 using Visual SourceSafe? Office XP and 2000 apparently had 'developer additions' that supported this (e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa164419%28office.10%29.aspx). Is this support missing in Office 2007? ...