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Old source code control solution from Microsoft. Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft Visual Source Safe was the Microsoft solution to source control, up to 2005. Its main asset is a good integration with Visual Studio. As of 2011, you should not consider this as your source control solution, except for supporting a legacy setup.

Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Some references about Sourcesafe:

MSDN Reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181038%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Microsoft Extended Support ends on 7/11/2017 : http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Visual+SourceSafe

Caveat :

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Is there a 'Get Latest Version' preview in TFS? (Like VSS 'Get' command)

My question relates to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and specifically, is there any way to know which files have changed on the server before doing a 'Get Latest Version (Recursive)? In Visual Source Safe (VSS), you could do a 'Get' (I think) which…
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Has anyone successfully migrated VSS 2005 over to SVN?

I've been playing around with SVN for the last little while and have come to love its power and user experience and that we can tie it into our bug tracking system to simplify everyone's lives. So it's come to the time that we've decided to migrate…
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Get rid of SourceSafe source control

One of my projects was under SourceSafe and I am using VS2008. Recently I switched to SVN. I removed all SS related files and committed the source files into SVN. Anyway, when I open my solution I'm still getting this inoffensive but annoying…
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Stay with Visual SourceSafe or go to the Team Foundation Server 2010

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…
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Visual Studio Check-in Option Changed to "Check In Now"

When checking in files using VS 2008, I normally have the option "Check In ..." Recently, this has changed to "Check In Now" and the behavior is different (I'm not given the option to add a note with my check-in). This is bizarre, as I can't think…
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How do I get VB6 to integrate with Visual Source Safe 6.0?

We use Visual Source Safe 6.0 at work and VB6 is supposed to integrate smoothly with Source Safe. Both applications are installed on my PC, but VB6 is not showing the options to integrate with Source Safe (e.g. checking out a file, seeing if a file…
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How do I sync between VSS and SVN

I am forced to use VSS at work, but use SVN for a personal repository. What is the best way to sync between VSS and sync?
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Way to see all files ever checked into Visual SourceSafe by a user?

Is there a way in Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to see all the files I've ever checked-in?
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Is it possible to use WinMerge inside Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Source Safe 6.0?

I would like to use WinMerge as the default diff tool inside VS2008 from the solutions explorer in place of the "Compare..." context menu item. Is this possible? I'm looking for a quick replacement of the current bland diff tool an I just like…
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Why is Visual SourceSafe viewed so poorly?

I'm interviewing this week for a position at a firm where I would be the sole initial developerplus support the application I am taking over work for. Because positions like this can vary so wildly in the details, I plan to go in advocating a number…
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Moving from VSS to SVN

I need to write a script to make a source safe project ready to be moved to subversion, what do I need to do so far I can think of: remove .scc files remove .vspcc files Do I need to remove the "read-only" attribute of all the files as well, or…
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Sourcesafe command line options

I am having an issue with the Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe command line options that I'm hoping someone has run across and can assist me with. I have the following line in a DOS batch file. "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ss.exe" GET …
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Migrating from VSS to Git while keeping the history

I'm trying to convert a Visual SourceSafe Repository to Git while keeping the exact version history. So I've tried using https://github.com/trevorr/vss2git. It worked, but it didn't keep the history. So I tried using TFS as a middleman. I used The…
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Get all files checked out by a user using the Visual Source Safe command line application SS.exe

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…
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Working with Subversion the same as with Visual Source Safe in Visual Studio

At work I just started using Subversion with AnkhSVN instead of Visual Source Safe. I managed to integrate it well enough but it doesn't seem the same. Using VSS the following would happen: A user check out a file by right clicking and selecting…
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