visual-sourcesafe

VSS bindings are lost every time the solution is opened

Every time I open a particular solution, the VSS bindings are lost and I have to rebind. Can anyone tell me why this happens and/or how to prevent it (short of never closing the solution, or having to do a "Get Latest Version")? This doesn't happen for every project/solution, only this one. As always, thanks for the help. P.S. I know t...

How to remove check out status from source safe.

I had two copies of checked out project in two diffent locations, but one got deleted. now in source safe its showing that the project is checked out in the deleted location. But the project is not in that location. Is there any way to remove the "Checked out" location information from source safe. ...

Getting Visual Studio 2010 to retain VSS password

I use Visual Studio 2010 with Visual SourceSafe 2005 for source control. Each developer has their own username/password for VSS access. I know how to configure Visual Studio to remember the login name but I cannot seem to find a way of remembering the password. Currently each time I open a project under source control I have to enter my ...

Is there a way in Visual Source Safe to find out when a file was checked out?

I can see when files were checked in in the history, but not when they were checked out. I know you can see when files were checked out if they are currently checked out, but not for files that are not currently checked out. I am using Source Safe version 8.0. ...

Upgrading an ASP.NET 2.0 to ASP.NET 3.5

We've got an older ASP.NET app written in VS 2005. I'd like to upgrade it to VS 2008, but still leave the old one around, in case I need to do development in it. It is also in Visual SourceSafe. So, would I just get into VS 2008, do an Open Website from Source Control (or whatever the string is) and put it into a new website under www...

Add multiple solutions referencing the same projects to SourceSafe?

Hi, I've replaced someone at this company, and he was their SourceSafe guy. He kind of sucked at it, but he knew more than anyone else (i.e. anything at all) and so I'm kind of stuck for places to ask this question. Sorry. Anyway, I've got a StartUp project (StartupProjectA) in Visual Studio that references projects A, B and C. I've go...

VSS to SVN migration; tool suggestions?

Anyone have good experience with tools migrating codebase from VSS to Subversion (preserving histories, meta-data)? Any feedback will be much appreciated. ...

How to get VSS updated/replaced files from nantcontrib vssget task

I am using nantcontrib and the vssget task to retrieve the latest code from source safe in a build process. I would like to log which files have been updated/replaced, basically any changes that have occured, and output it to screen/log file. The only output I get is... [vssget] Getting '$/project' to 'C:\project' Below is my vssget ...

Editing while Opening Android Manifest File in Eclipse

I found this strange behavior with Eclipse when I try to open the Android Manifest file. Specially when the file was checked out by other user, Eclipse is trying to open the file and do some edits. If it finds that the file is checked out by other user, it displays a message to remove the read only flag. And we have also seen old versio...

Online VSS for asp.net

Me and my friend decided to work on a ASP.NET 3.5. But the issue we are facing that he is in different state, the only source of communication is internet. Is there any way we can use VSS [Microsoft Visual Source Safe], or similar tools, to keep our code on server and avail the same facilities like check in and check out. So that we can...

In Visual Source Safe is there a limit to how many labels you can apply?

We have a collection of 25 or so projects in a source safe database and we want to apply daily labels to each of them. Is there a limit to the number of labels that can be applied? ...