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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 Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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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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…
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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…
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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…
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How to get user information from Visual Source Safe 2005 Administration?

Is there any way to know user creation and modification date using Visual Source Safe 2005 administration? If not, then where can we get this information in server?
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How do I get the REST client using javascript?

Visual studios has the following typescript code on their website that I was trying to follow as an example: import RestClient = require("TFS/WorkItemTracking/RestClient"); // Get an instance of the client var client = RestClient.getClient(); //…
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Visual Source Safe Branch - Linked to Wrong Branch

OK... I know, I know... Visual Source Safe is terrible and I shouldn't be using it. But at this point I have no choice, my company is looking to move from it by the end of the year, but for now I have to work with what I have :( So... I have a VSS…
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How can I see which source safe project is bound to a Visual Studio solution?

Is it possible to verify which source safe project is bound to my vs.net solution? When I checkout a file in vs.net, then look up the file in source safe, it seems to be checking out a file from another project. When I look at the directory in 'set…
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Assigning Access rights on a file in VSS

how can i assign modify rights on the a file on VSS to a particular user in a team and the rest of team have ready only rights. For Example, there are 4 users in the VSS and I want that one user should only be edit a particular file and the others 3…
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How to change folder hierarchy while migrating project from VSS to GITLAB

I am trying to migrating project from VSS to GITLAB. I am using VSS2GIT for importing project from VSS to local file. Here are the folder structure once I import successfully.! Now I am pushing this project to GITLAB using following command git…
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How to create a patch compatible to GIT in VSS(Visual Source safe)

We are migrating from VSS and SVN to git. We use command like below to generate the patch in SVN SVN diff --git -r 20566:21030 >> patchFile.patch Similarly, I want to create a patch in VSS. Any body have idea on this?
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How to create a Visual Source Safe branch using NAnt

Summary I currently have a NAnt build script that performs a vssget on either the latest source code, or a specific branch (using a ${branch} parameter). Whenever we do a production build/deployment the code-tree that was built has a branch created,…
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How to enable branching in VSS

I am running Visual Source Safe 8.0. I am trying to create 2 branches for my project, but I find that the branch option is dialed in the versions menu. Can anyone tell me how to enable it.
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Visual SourceSafe and VS2005 Without Full Integration

Is it possible to use VSS 2005 with VS2005 and not have the .sln and proj files included in the source repository? If so could somebody please provide a template for getting this working. It strikes me, that understanding of the project hierarchy…
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How to back up and restore the Visual soucesafe code and Databse

Can any on explain how to take back up and restore the Visual source safe code and database. I wanted to migrate the code and database from older server to new server.
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Versioning project libraries with Git (came from vss)

i'm a newbie of git, since now I used vss. I have converted my project vss repository to a git repository. now I have some question about versioning my project modules. Assume this case: MainProject.exe v. 1.1.0.0 ProjectLibrary1.dll v.…
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