We are team of few Delphi developers who have been using VSS since years (I know it's a pity), but we don't use any of the advanced features of VCS, so it was working fine in many cases (but some times it was driving me crazy :( ). The good thing that we have with VSS that we use third-party plug-ins to integrate VSS with Delphi, which...
All, I currently have two projects that are under SourceSafe that I am unable to migrate to our SVN server for a number of reasons. However I am currently in the process of trying to merge fixes from one project into the other. I know Sourcesafe isn't the best at this but the process I am going through just now is particularly tedi...
Why do you (and/or your company) use Visual Source Safe instead of the "other" version control systems? ...
My workplace is planning on moving to Team Foundation Server and it's not a moment too soon - anything to get away from the cancer that is Visual SourceSafe. However, I must ask - is the source control in TFS significantly different (and better) than VSS or is it just a "beefed up" version of the same thing? I ask this now since this ...
We're a distributed team of 5 developers working on rather large integrations project. We currently use SourceSafe (yes I know it sucks but it has just worked until recently and we've used it forever). Our biggest problem has recently become performance. Checking in and out project just takes forever and we're finding ourselves spending ...
First, a couple operating parameters: .NET development using Visual Studio 2005/2008 TortoiseSVN client I've only primarily worked with Visual Source Safe and SourceGear Vault source control systems. In each, I map the root of the repository to a local working directory. For example: $/ --> C:\source As long as the local direc...
i want to have some shared code (code library, controls, utilities, helper classes, etc) in Visual Studio. i do not mean shared assemblies, i mean shared code (i.e. i want to ship one assembly with my application, the executable assembly). The technique in other development environments way is to have the common source code in a path on...
Is there a way to search Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0d for all files tagged with a specific label? ...
We currently use VSS 6, this is not going to change I am afraid. I am attempting to write a script that will allow a user to quickly copy all files that they have checked out to another directory tree. In order to do this I need to get a list of all the files that the user has checked out, and the directory that the file is checked out ...
Does anyone have any strategies/tips/traps for moving to Team System? Should it be done in baby steps, or all at once? Should we migrate our SourceSafe library over, or draw a line in the sand and move forward? Is it worth brining SharePoint into the mix? Any thoughts are appreciated. ...
Our VSS setup is like this: We have a set of unique folders with 100s of files in them. I need to, from within VBScript, get the latest version of all files in a set of folders and put them into a local directory so that other operations can be performed on them. The reason for VBScript is, well, vague even to me. Perhaps VB or C# .NET w...
I often need to make a manifest of files with Microsoft Visual Source Safe version numbers on them. Is there a way to get a list of files with version numbers in a project? ...
Does anyone have sample code to copy open (in-use and locked by another program) files using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) API? There was an article about this in The Delphi Magazine (September 2005). But that code is no longer available and even if it was, it's not current. I am looking for sample code that works with current versi...
I need to get a file from sourcesafe database programmatically. Any idea of how to do it? ps: I'll do that by using C#. ...
We use SourceSafe 6.0d and have a DB that is about 1.6GB. We haven't had any problems yet, and there is no plan to change source control programs right now, but how big can the SourceSafe database be before it becomes an issue? Thanks ...
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. In previous versions, there has been integration with VSS, through which one could "open from SourceSafe" and then, in the solution view, have the ability to interact with the source control by clicking on individual files. I seem to have some integration under 2008, namely there is a "S...
(I know I am using Visual Source Safe, I do not have a choice because it comes with the MSDN Subscription license and my company does not want to buy a third party source control solution....) I have a VS 2005 solution with 3 C# class library projects, 2 ASP.NET web site projects and one ASP.NET web service project that is stored in a V...
I tend to get the feeling that most folks here think SVN is gold-plated goodness, whereas VSS is the worst program ever devised (at least as Version Control is concerned). That said, why? I've used some CVS, and my current job uses VSS, and from a grunt on the team's perspective, I can't really tell that much difference. Most of the d...
I'm getting back into .NET after numerous years in PHP/MySQL back in 2002 on Microsoft projects we always used Visual SourceSafe and everyone hated it in all my PHP/MySQL projects we used SVN and everyone loved it in modern day .NET projects do teams still use Visual SourceSafe, has it improved? or has (hopefully) SVN become a standar...
In my working folder of a VSS project, is it alright if I make all the files/folders writable? i.e. not readonly? ...