I'm trying to fix up my Visual Source Safe bindings for a project I have and when I select the location I believe a project should be bound to, i get a dialog that says: The folder you chose is not a valid binding root for the projects you have selected. You attempted to retarget a solution to a source control folder that is not within...
We are using Visual Studio 2008 to develop a winforms application stored in Visual Source Safe 2005. If one of our team members changes a *.Designer.cs file without changing the form's source file the change doesn't appear during a "Get" operation. However, if in Visual Studio you run a compare on the *.Designer.cs file the differences...
In my company, we use SourceSafe and Visual studio. Starting up a minor project, I am eager to try a more modern source control, I am aiming at Subversion. But I need to work with the previous projects in SourceSafe, at least for now. Q: Will it work well to use both SourceSafe and Subversion in the visual studio IDE? Using what? And a...
Visual Studio 2008, to be more specific. We're testing out moving to Perforce for source control, so I'd like to install the P4SCC plugin to monkey around with. However, I'd also like to continue using SourceSafe's IDE capabilities for projects that haven't been moved over yet. Can the two co-exist peacefully, or is it one or the other f...
Recently, the SourceSafe integration into visual studio has started to perform badly because we have moved, and the SourceSafe "server" is located across a VPN which goes across a slow connection. This has made loading large projects in visual c++ 6 take 5+ minutes because it has to talk to the "server" for each project. Also, there are ...
I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with 7 various projects included with it. 3 of these 'projects' are Web Sites (the kind of project without a project file). I have stripped all the various Visual Sourcesafe files from all the directories, removed the Scc references in the SLN file and all the project files that exist. I deleted th...
A question was asked recently about removing SourceSafe integration from Visual Studio 6. I need to do the same with Visual Studio 2008. Our team uses Subversion and I have installed AnkhSVN, the Subversion plug-in for VS2008 (some other members of the team use VisualSVN). I find that SourceSafe "insists" on being the integrated source ...
Currently my team uses Visual Sourcesafe, and being very familiar with how horrible the GUI is first hand and having heard the internet mummer about how unreliable it is, I've been trying to push a move to SVN. Today I was talking to manager about the eventual move, which he supports, and he asked if it was possible to create sourcesafe...
At work, we recently switched from VSS to SVN. Unfortunately, I have never used anything other than VSS. So the new features still feel quite awkward. I understand enough to get latest, update and commit; however, I am interested in a book that describes practical usage and best practices. Any suggestions? ...
I'm in the process of moving SQL server to a separate machine. Currently we are running our web server and sql server on the same box. So we have a production server with IIS and SQLServer and then a separate development server that mirrors this setup. When it comes to our asp.net control's app.config and web site's web.config, this h...
In podcast 40 one of the things mentioned was checking the difference between files in source control to see what was done the day before. Are there any good external tools - something I can open all by itself - that will show the diff on everything changed since the last check-in or within a given time frame on a single project? We'r...
VSS is much maligned and perhaps justifiably so. Please don't confuse me as an apologist for it, as I gave up on it a while back in favor of Vault. However, despite using VSS for over 10 years on numerous projects with development teams between 3 and 10 developers, I never experienced (or to be fair, noticed) any data loss. I will admi...
We have a blog system that we sold to a number of different customers (included in many different projects). This system includes a number of different files – a few aspx pages, one or two ascx controls, one css file, one javascript file and some codebehind/vb.net utility files. In general 90+% of this module is the same between custom...
The company I work for has over 1000 apps which we maintain. Many of these are in old technologies like VB6, or poor technologies (Access). We are looking to move away from Source Safe. We have TFS running, and we are moving our dot.net projects to TFS. The other projects don't integrate with TFS, and do not need a portal or any of the ...
I am trying to get a build going for a client that pulls from VSS 2005 (yes, I have no choice). I am pretty sure I have all my configuration correct, but I keep getting this error: Source control operation failed: $/Utilities/Orbital Gateway/Solution Architecture/Release Construction/Payment Subsystem/Services/PaymentService is not an ex...
I have the opportunity to give a formal presentation to my boss about anything that benefits the company. My idea is to adopt source control in my workplace. I have been using Mercurial to manage my own project at work, but the rest of the team does not have a formal source control system in place. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at p...
StarTeam has file sharing between views. Basically a view in StarTeam can share individual files from other views. It can then branch the files as well. Are there ways to migrate views in StarTeam that share hundreds of files with each other? Anyone have experience with this? Assuming that the only solution is to convert one StarTeam ...
Hi! I have installed in my Desktop Computer Visua Studio 2008 Team System 2008 Architecture and Visual SourceSafe 2005. Visual Studio doesn't have integrated Visual SourceSafe, How can I integrate Visual SourceSafe on Visual Studio. Thanks! ...
This has to do with source control, I'm using VSS and the Visual Studio 2008 plugin. When the DLL of a referenced project gets included in a project (and checked into VSS), on the next build it will fail because those files aren't checked out as part of the build process and will be read only. I could exclude the entire bin folder and a...
Our organization is making a migration from VSS to SVN. Now, due the lack of branching on VSS there's a folder with the source code from the last production environment code it was used like a queue where the new code was pushed to the top of the queue then it basically depended on a very manual thing and it was all or nothing scenario....