visual-sourcesafe

Best source control for us to use(and how to convince people of it?)

Hi, I'm in a little bitty startup company. Right now we are using JEDI VCS for our source control needs, which isn't too bad except for it's buggy. It worked because we were using it to manage "old" Delphi projects. Now, we are developing things in VS 2008 and .NET and I realized JEDI is extremely tied to Delphi when I went to try to b...

Exclude Code from Builds Temporarily

I have a developer that has asked me if there is a way to exclude certain code from deployment. We run debug and release builds directly from most recent code in source control. She'll check in code and not want it to be included in the build for various reasons. (The root of this is probably a sort of, design on the fly mentality, but ...

Ant - using vssadd to add multiple file

Hi, I'm trying to use vssadd task to add a tree of source files to a recent created project on VSS. But it happens to be adding only the folder tree, all files missing. <vsscp vsspath="$/DEV/APL_${version}" ssdir="${vssapl}" serverPath="${vsssvr}"/> The vssadd task displays the name of the folders it's creating: ......

FrontPage Access Denied when Synchronizing with SourceSafe

How can I override or correct the Access Denied error when trying to synchronize local and remote files in FrontPage? This has not always been a problem....it just started last week. I installed Microsoft Essentials III trial to evaluate as an alternative to FrontPage. I copied a few files into Essentials to test it, but they were cop...

Include a version control tag in VSS

I was reading Code Complete 2 and it mentions this: Many version-control tools wil insert version information into a file. In CVS, for exmple the characters // $id$ Will Automaticly expand to // $id: ClassName.java, v 1.1 2004/02/05 00:36:42 ismene Exp $ So now I would like to do something similar with VSS for our SQL scri...

are you missing an assembly reference?

I'm getting the joyous 'type or namespace name "Something" does not exist in the namespace "Something else" (are you missing an assembly reference?)' error. What I've got is a Website project that contains the website itself along with several other custom projects upon which the website relies. The issue I'm having is with one of the ...

Visual studio 2008 problem

i am using visual studio team system 2008 and VSS 2005. I took a latest copy of a project from VSS. Now when i try to open that project, it is showing error "This version of visual studio does not support source control" and " Unexpected error enocountered. Restart the application Error : no such interfaces are supporte...

How to manage application versioning and deployments?

Currently there are some challenges with managing application versions and deployments at the shop I work in. Typically we just change the code(corresponding DLL's) that we need to support our changes and drop the code into production(cut and paste). The most pressing problem is that we need a way to know and to review the code that is...

How to keep track of the SCM revision in the build versions automatically?

I want to look at a production binary and know which revision in the SCM corresponds to that build. How it is possible? Can I accomplish that in Visual Studio using VSS? ...

Migrate your data from VSS Server to Team Foundation Server

Hello Everyone, Yesterday, I asked a question Migrate to TFS and the answer mentioned some very good tools which can be very helpful. Thanks to jwanagel. But I forgot to mention there the VSS server and TFS server are two different machines. And when you've both on different location it seems you would have to take a ...

Say hello to "TFS". How to migrate from oldes and be "more" agile ?

Hello Everyone, We've planned to move from Visual SourceSafe to TFS. For this purpose, we brought a new server machine with updated specs and TFS installed. The Visual SourceSafe machine still has its use in the environment as the TFS machine dedicated for a single project. All the projects are there in Visual SourceSafe machine and ar...

Unable to add a new item to source control?

I hope someone can help here, we're having an incredibly annoying time with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual SourceSafe 8. Basically, when anyone involved with the Web Application Project attempts to add a new "item" (eg. a CSS file) they get the following error: An error or user cancellation occurred during checkout. Some files may no...

disconnect visual studio solution from sourcesafe?

Hi everyone, I'm working on a project for a firm that has their main solution in sourcesafe. The other developers are working like beavers on new stuff, and I'd like to be able to download the source from VSS, then disconnect it. So I can get up to speed on the code without risk of bothering anyone else's code. Is it possible to do t...

Is there an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, revision control system?

Not something like Gitweb because you can only BROWSE and not actually check out/in files. I'm thinking of something like Visual SourceSafe, but web-based, and open-source, that you can host yourself. Trac might be closer to what I'm looking for, but I've heard bad things about it. Any other options? EDIT: I'm working on a PHP / MyS...

small stop sign at the right bottom of the file (solution explorer VS2005)

tried to find the answer by googling and in MSDN but with no luck. what does a small stop sign mean in the icon of the file (seein in a soluton explorer tree) in Visual Studio. I have a bunch of C++ files with the thing and it really worrries me. All these files are under source control and checked-in. ...

Can i use VSS 2005 internet client plugin from Visual Studio 2008 to access SVN?

I use visual studio 2008 for my development purpose. I also have Visual Source Safe 2005 client installed both at my office computer and my laptop. I like the private source control repository provided by xp-dev.com. But it supports SVN. Is there any way that I can use VSS 2005 internet plug in to access (Check In/Check Out) from SVN re...

Structure of NAnt build scripts and solution structure on build server

We're in the process of streamlining/automating build, integration and unit testing as well as deployment. Our software is developed in Visual Studio where we have use both C# and VB.NET in our projects. A single project can be contained within multiple solutions (i.e. Utils project is used in both ProductA and ProductB solutions) For h...

Getting a changed portion of the file from Shadow Copy snapshot?

I would like to be able to get a changed portion of the file from VSS snapshot? How it is possible? ...

How do I make Visual Studio Start Page display my checked out files?

We use Visual Source Safe. Is there a way to have the all-files-checked-out-to-me report display on the Start Page in Visual Studio? So that when I opened VS, I'd see a report of everything I have checked out from VSS, categorized by project. ...

diff/merge tool for TortoiseSVN within Visual Studio

Hi. We've recently "upgraded" from Visual SourceSafe to SVN based on recommendations on this site. Our current source control set-up is: TortoiseSVN with VisualSVN. We're very happy with it so far, but I was wondering if there's any additional benefits from using a different diff/merge tool than the one included (TortoiseMerge). Tortois...