I am forced to use Visual Source Safe at my current job. Yes I know, It's like a stick in the eye. But VSS won't go away, VSS is here to stay. I was wondering if there is any way to do something similar to Subversion's Post-Commit hooks in VSS? Coupled with a few deployment scripts, this would make our lives much, much easier. ...
Maybe just maybe somebody knows of an plugin that will let VSS do perforce-like changelists? I know its a long shot, but we are stuck with VSS. ...
Basically, what I want to achieve, is to be able to have 2 separate solutions containing the same set of projects, but 1st solution needs to be bound to source control, 2nd - not. So whenever you want source control integration in Visual Studio, you can open 1st solution, but if you don’t want it, you can open the 2nd one. The problem...
For the past year I've been working on some legacy code that was written in VB 6.0. Sometime in the last couple of days the "References" menu item disappeared from the Project menu drop-down on the menu bar. I've been using this version of the VB studio for the past year without any problems. The only thing that has changed recently is t...
My company has an ASP.NET application in a VSS repository. Management would like some of the files in the repository to be read-only to most users, while the rest of the files would be writable to all users. I don't think this can be done, but if its possible, it would require sharing. One possible strategy would be for the entire proj...
I'm researching a potential move from SourceSafe to Subversion and we are struggling with the edit/merge/commit vs. checkout/update/checkin paradigm. The primary concern is how do you know which files are checked out with Subversion (and to whom)? Is there a Subversion equivalent to "Status Search" in VSS? Or is it not possible beca...
Randomly and without warning (or apparent reason), VS 2008 decided to act as if debugging was working just like it always does, except for the fact that my application window never shows up on the screen. I’d been running my app from VS all morning, and I don’t see what I could possibly have changed that would make my window no longer sh...
I know VSS is awful, I am just a cog in the great machine of life and have learned to live with feelings of powerlessness with the help of a therapist. However, I'd like to bring some order to the chaos here, and a real issue tracking/project management system like FogBugz that integrates with VSS would be a huge improvement. The problem...
I was wondering what the best approach might be for creating a backup of my organisation's SourceSafe database, and moving it to a share on another server? Currently we have a scheduled job which runs a batch file, which in turn executes a PowerShell script. This Powershell script creates a backup file (using SourceSafe command-line arg...
Does anyone know of a good way to remove vss source control bindings for a visual studio 2005 and 2008 solution without opening it in visual studio? I used to use: del /s /f /a: *.*scc Then when I opened visual studio it would prompt me and give me the option to "permanently remove bindings". Now when I try this it recreates the .vsssc...
Hi all, I'm using Visual Source Safe 6.0d (work requirement) and I've been trying to hack together a little shell script to allow me to easily remove a source tree or warn me if I've got files checked out so I can make sure I don't accidentally delete work. Is there any way to tell if files are checked out other than checking the read-...
I'm using Visual Source Safe at a new job and it hasn't been too bad... then I renamed a file. I clicked through the warning prompts not really paying attention realized that by renaming the file I lost all of my history. Is this really the case? I can't believe VSS doesn't support renaming. I refactor lots of code and not having a r...
when i am trying to create a label for a file in VSS, it shows 'it's already labelled'. So i could able to create a new labels only and i am not able to view the previous labels. Can someone help me out to get the all the labels, which are set for that particular file (deleted/hidden).? Thanks!! ...
I've attempted to export my VSS repository to SVN via VSS2SVN and VSSMigrate If these fail, does that mean that VSS is corrupt, despite the reassuring results of ANALYZE.exe? Also, by this standard it would seem most VSS repositories are corrupt, because I've seen few people post success stories about converting a repository. I gues...
I've encountered an odd misbehavior of VS 2008's integration with Visual Source Safe 2005. Situation occurs when I fire up VS2008 when a project is checked out to someone else, and later they check the project back in, while I still hold the VS2008 open. If I at that time add a new item, VS2008 tells me that my action has caused a ch...
i have an interesting problem. whenever i try to checkout items from source safe through VS 08 interface, the app stops responding. a weird thing is, i can check out project items from the business layer but not the web site items from the web layer. i'm having to manually check them in/out from source safe. i know this isn't much info, ...
Is there a way to disable the "Pending Checkins" processing which Visual Studio 2008 does every time one opens a solution? It's causing problems at our work because the processing of about 4500 files is slow. Closing the tab didn't seem to help. I also tried the "Perform background status updates" -setting in the Options - Plug-in Setti...
Folks, We have a number of Source Safe databases that should be migrated to SubVersion. Is there a (tested and proven) way to migrate them with history ? Thanks Essam ...
Is there a way to export files/folders from Source Safe? (i.e. getting rid of all .scc files, just like SVN export) ...
I am using SourceSafe Explorer v8.0. I imported an existing project from SourceSafe into VS 2008, worked on the project and checked it in a few times. Now I need to import the same project into a different folder but the version of before I started working on it. I see a Get Latest" option. Where's the option to get a certain older vers...