Maybe I'm dumb, or just stupid. But I'm stuck on-site in an enterprise where VSS is the 'option'. So i had to branch my code, which was reasonbly easy. However when it came time to merge back into the main line in VSS, things got screwy. First, i couldn't merge by project, or even by folder but only file-by-file. Then I tried the r...
I am considering getting VSS and was wondering what were people's thoughts on it in particular? ...
I have heard some pretty bad review about source safe (VSS) but no real examples. Anyone have a good example/story? ...
I have a coworker who was no longer work the same office. He has checked out files in VSS. How do I check in the item which checked out by him? Thanks. ...
Similar to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/911426/get-all-files-from-vss-for-a-given-date I am trying to write a script that get a VSS project tree for a specified label. I have this: :: Path to the SS.exe command set ss="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ss" :: Path to the srcsafe.ini file for the reposi...
Is it possible to use VSS 2005 with VS2005 and not have the .sln and proj files included in the source repository? If so could somebody please provide a template for getting this working. It strikes me, that understanding of the project hierarchy would be a damned site simpler without the default integration between VS2005 and VSS. An...
Question: Today I worked with MS Visual Sourcesafe, that is to say Microsoft's Sourcecode destruction system, which has never ever saved anything, but already destroyed much. Today I had one more of those nasty destructive episodes: I was working on a reporting service report (*.rdl xml files). I was modifiying a report, so I created a...
I am running Visual Source Safe 8.0. I am trying to create 2 branches for my project, but I find that the branch option is dialed in the versions menu. Can anyone tell me how to enable it. ...
Summary I currently have a NAnt build script that performs a vssget on either the latest source code, or a specific branch (using a ${branch} parameter). Whenever we do a production build/deployment the code-tree that was built has a branch created, (so that we can continue development and still know what codebase is on production, pret...
We have a SSIS, SSRS and SSAS code repository in VSS that we are moving to Subversion. We have made the sane choice of keeping history in VSS and are making it read-only. I am going to download my entire structure, make it writable, remove all VSS files and VSS info from the Solution and Project files, and then import it into Subversio...
We are moving from VSS 6.0 to SVN and I am trying to automate some tasks to make my life easier. Is there a way that I can disconnect a solution (containing an SSIS Project, SSAS project) or a SSIS project from Visual Sourcesafe from the Command-Line? ...
Microsoft has always been adamant about their use of "dogfooding" in the software development process, and it's made tools like Excel and Visual Studio work pretty well. My question is this: Do Microsoft employees use VSS? Have they ever used it? If not, what do they actually use? It seems to be such a flawed, inadequate version control ...
We are a small group of six developers who currently use Visual Studio 2003 and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (HVAC). Everyone has the responsibility for its program was not sharing code with each other. Everyone has responsibility for its own version handling, the codes is not in a common version handling. We will now update to Visual St...
How to check file is checked out by whom? I'm using Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 ...
I have a post build event that combines my JavaScript files and outputs to Production.js, however if Production.js is not checked out, the build fails. Is it possible to automatically check Production.js out when a project is built? [Edit] If possible using a post-build event, does anyone know how to do this? I am using Visual Studio...
I can access the location where the VSS database files allocate. I can also manipulate the users.txt file for VSS. How to How to add a user for Visual Source Safe without an admin account, but by directly manipulating the files? ...
how can i assign modify rights on the a file on VSS to a particular user in a team and the rest of team have ready only rights. For Example, there are 4 users in the VSS and I want that one user should only be edit a particular file and the others 3 user should only be view that file, can't not edit it. Thanks in Advance Hussain ...
Hi, I know that MS SQL supports VSS. But does MySQL support VSS too?? Thanks Kevin ...
Is it possible at a file or folder level to tell VS2008 to reference different VSS DBs? The project in question has partial classes and I wish to split the .cs files associated with a partial class into two different source safes while supporting studio based checkouts and checkins. If it helps I can use project subdirecotries to group ...
Hi All, Thanks in Advance.. I want to put a question to solve my problem, the question is that how is the way to use database (Trigger, Sps, and other elements) in VSS same like using source code in VSS and access in Microsoft Visual Studio. like doing check in and out of database elements in VSS or other tool for making database in c...