We are leaving VSS for TFS or any other alternatives. I'm the one who persists to go for an open source alternative like SVN. Now I'm searching for a good open source Version Control regarding following aspects: We are in love with open source movement and cross-platform. Could it be possible to use it with Mono, SharpDevelop and Expre...
Is there a way in Visual SourceSafe to move a file from one directory to another while retaining its history? Edit I actually found a round about way to do this. First I drag the file I want to move to the directory I want to move it to, this creates a "Link" to the file there and then I "permanently destroy" the file in its original ...
I did a Get Latest from the root folder ($) of a Source Safe database and all I got is all the folders hierarchy. There were no files anywhere. But if I do a Get Latest on each folder (project), I do the files for that folder hiearachy. Why does this happen? Is this a permissions issue? ...
I've been using Git for the past few months and love it. I looked into how to host it in a corporate environment. Considering a 10 person team who use Visual SourceSafe, programming in Coldfusion, Powerbuilder, PHP and a bit of .NET, I found, to my surprise, that the Git 'server' tooling is still fairly rudimentary. http://stackoverflo...
Long story short, VSS decided I wasn't allowed to have some code changes. I am missing a decent sized feature that I don't want to have to re-write (gave to a co-op as work this past summer). It works great and does what the client wants. However... I don't have the machine and the machine it was developed on has since been paved low! D...
A client still uses Visual SourceSafe, but after showing the numerous dangers and deficiencies of VSS, they've decided to migrate from VSS to SVN Subversion. The choice-to-be seems Tortoise SVN with AnkhSVN (good choice?). A migration aid is described here. The project contains two websites, a few web applications, several control and f...
Our VSS database appears to be horribly out of shape. I've been trying to archive and run "analyze" and keep getting "Access to file [filename] is denied. The file may be read-only, may be in use, or you may not have permission to write to the file. Correct this problem and run analyze again." No one is logged into SourceSafe (includ...
I have a folder with various files and subfolders that I'd like to add to my sourcesafe 8.0 database. In the SourceSafe explorer I can add files, but I don't see any options for adding an entire folder w/subfolders. Is it possible to do this? ...
We have two different projects on our source safe database (one of them is a copy of another one for some reasons there was a problem with our branching operation that didn't pin our branched files therefore I had to get a label and add it as a different project) I know how I can see the differences between two projects and I know that t...
A common file may be used in one more projects and such files will be shown as a linked file in VSS database. Actually such files are kept at a unique location within the database. Is there a way to get the original storage location of a linked file ? ...
Hi All, I need to add some files to the VSS through the command line, but I can't figure out how to set the destination project in the VSS? Official description (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tszt2szw%28VS.80%29.aspx) doesn’t have any remarks about setting the internal VSS path to add the file. By defaults it uses path which ...
I use VSS and currently I am adding a link file using following code: int ShareFlags = (int)VSSFlags.VSSFLAG_RECURSNO; //Link in sourcesafe IVSSDatabase ssdb = GetVssDatabase(); Shared.Enums.SqlObjectSubType _sqlSubType = new Shared.Enums.SqlObjectSubType(); VSSItem SourceItem = ssdb.get_VSSItem(pSourceItemPath, false); //if source is ...
I would like to get a report of the changes made to all the files in a project. I know how to do it for a single file, but I don't know how to do it recursively. Have you tried to do something similar? Is there a specific tool to accomplish this task? Thank you. ...
Hello everyone, Sorry for this horrid, horrid question.. but there's no way for me to not use VSS. I would like to be able to use Git locally for branch development, etc. while using Visual Source Safe 6. My knowledge of all of the ins and outs of Git is limited at the moment, as I'm a recent convert. Question: What I would like to ...
When i tried to open VSS database through code i got an error like Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {783CD4E4-9D54-11CF-B8EE-00608CC9A71F} failed due to the following error: 80040154. I used SourcesafeTyplib.dll in my application .Code snippnet as follows IVSSDatabase vssdb = null; //string[] cred = ...
We moved from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server. Can I sync. TFS source control to Visual Source Safe? I would like to keep a backup of Team Foundation Server source control in Visual Source Safe. Just to have a backup server ready in case the Team Foundation Server rot out and we can quickly shift back to Visual Source Safe s...
OK, so I have started a contract where they are using (gulp) Visual SourceSafe and are looking to move to something better. I have recommended Git. I stumbled across vss2git, which looks useful for migrating from VSS. Has anyone used it? Many thanks! ...
I have VSS 6.0. I have branched my project so that I can do parallel development. I have 100s of files in folder/subfolders. I have changed some 10-20 files in multiple folders in ver 2 branch. Now I want to merge changes done in ver 2 to ver 1 branch. When I select the project merge branches option is not enabled. neither is it enable...
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 o...
I'm using CC.net on against a Source Safe database, and have a problem that someone deleted some files from the database, and the deleted files weren't removed. I didn't see a config switch or anything that I could set for it to clear the code directory prior to building. Am I missing something? ...