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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 Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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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The Open from Source Control operation ... then Visual Studio opens up latest from source safe

When I open a project in Visual Studio I get the following dialog box message: The Open from Source Control operation is still in progress but you can start working now. The rest of the projects will be retrieved asynchinously. Then it gets the…
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TFS (high level) install process

Can someone explain the high level process, of installing TFS? I've had the Server set up by a "network guy". It's TFS 2010, and we're using VS 2010 and moving to VS 2012. Do I need to install something on my client machine, or does Visual Studio…
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Visual sourcesafe connection between virtual and build machine

I have a problem and there are no lots of documents about that. I will use visual studio as ide. I want to use visual source safe for sharing and logging our projects from a server. I installed source safe.But i have some help about how to connect…
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VSS Analyze - Access to file [filename] is denied

Our VSS database appears to be horribly out of shape. I've been trying to archive and run "analyze" and keep getting "Access to file [filename] is denied. The file may be read-only, may be in use, or you may not have permission to write to the…
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What are the hurdles and dangers when migrating from Visual SourceSafe to SVN?

A client still uses Visual SourceSafe, but after showing the numerous dangers and deficiencies of VSS, they've decided to migrate from VSS to SVN Subversion. The choice-to-be seems Tortoise SVN with AnkhSVN (good choice?). A migration aid is…
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Getting source code from VSS into my workspace - Eclipse

we are getting the Source code (in Eclipse IDE) from VSS , during the execution process its produce an error, reason - Classpath and Project files was not created, if we move both Classpath and Projects files into the VSS its working fine during…
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Visual SourceSafe script starting out

I have never wrote a script before and I was asked today to make a Visual SourceSafe script that returns all of the labels that are stored. I have 0 idea on how to start this as I have never wrote a script before. Can anybody point me in the right…
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How to check out all VB6 Project files from VSS?

I have a VB6 project in Visual Source Safe 6.0. When I open the project I want to Check Out (Get) all the files in the project so that I can edit them. I have the VSS Options (within VB6) set to act on the Project recursively, but when I check out…
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Getting all files from root folder of a Source Safe database creates folders only. No files present

I did a Get Latest from the root folder ($) of a Source Safe database and all I got is all the folders hierarchy. There were no files anywhere. But if I do a Get Latest on each folder (project), I do the files for that folder hiearachy. Why does…
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Obsolete test case (or test case of removed feature)

What to do with obsolete test case (or test case of removed feature)? We are using VSS in our project. Hundreds of test cases are there. Suppose some features are removed from application in current version but the test cases are still there in…
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How do I make Visual Studio Start Page display my checked out files?

We use Visual Source Safe. Is there a way to have the all-files-checked-out-to-me report display on the Start Page in Visual Studio? So that when I opened VS, I'd see a report of everything I have checked out from VSS, categorized by project.
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VSS "Shared" Files and Perforce

we are trying to change our vcs from Visual sourcesafe to Perforce, there is a nice feature in Sourcesafe for sharing same file btw. diffrent projects so you just need to change the master file and all other linked files are upto date after that. Is…
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Changing VSS user via command line

In my working Environment, I need to access multiple VSS database. For Each database , I have different user ID / Password Moreover , I need to download some data on fixed date ( each wednesday morning) I would like to automate this process. …
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Backdate History Dates in Visual Sourcesafe

I would like to show some edits that were made to files and backdate the files in Visual SourceSafe to show the correct datetimes those changes were made. Is there a way to do this?
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Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Replacing Same "Unchanged" Project Daily

Using Visual SourceSafe 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I recently copied a project from one directory. Made changes to it to serve a different purpose. Changed the name of the project and put it in a new directory. I then Added the project back into…
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