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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 Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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

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Why does Visual studio 2005 prefer "none" instead of perforce as source control provider

(Formerly: Help! Sourcesafe hijacks Perforce bindings in visual studio 2005) Hi, I'm currently having a problem with a visual studio solution. We're using perforce as our source control provider through the binding mechanism in visual studio. My…
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How do I arrange for VSS history to appear in code?

I recently needed to embed Visual Source Safe history in the source code of a new project, according to some examples we have in older project, where the history appears where the coder has placed certain comments. The final result is something…
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Mercurial. Is it possible to know if a file is "checked out"

We decided to switch the source control of our .NET project from SourceSafe to Mercurial. Now the question is that if there any possibility to know what file from the solution is "extracted"(checked out) and if yes, by whom?
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Visual Studio Sourcesafe 6.0 *.js filetype change default editor

I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio Sourcesafe 6.0. When edit *.js(JavaScript) File Type, the default text editor is notepad.exe, but I want to use another text editor. How to change *.js File Type default text editor?
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Versioning Projects in Visual Source Safe

I am currently working on Phase 1 of my project and all files are checked into Visual Source safe. How do I version this project as phase 1. I know if it is a single file we can roll back changes etc. After I start working on Phase 2. I should be…
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VSS: How do I recover from "File has been destroyed, and cannot be rebuilt."?

We're running Visual SourceSafe 6.0 (build 8163). In one project, there's an old label I want to do a Get on, but a few files have been added and destroyed since that label was created. Now everytime I try to do a Get on the label - for each…
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Are there any programs to aid in the mass-editing of Visual SourceSafe checkin comments?

I know that in Visual SourceSafe you can go in and drill down to the history of an individual file and then drill down to an individual check-in and apply a comment to the check-in that way but that's tedious and time consuming - if you have a lot…
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Source safe adding redundant parent folder

Why when I add a new solution to Source safe from visual studio does it add a redundant parent folder with the same name as my solution. For example, if my solution is called Project X, when it is added to source safe it is now found in Project X >…
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Moving multiple VSS repositories to "new" source control while adding TDD and CI at the same time?

Less of a question, more advice and suggestion to a "where TF do I begin?" Start environment: VS 2010 Pro, C#, VSS 2005, single developer, multple VSS repositories, limited code re-use Currently I have (mostly inherited and not had time to change…
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Compare between TFS and SourceSafe

We recently moved all of our source to TFS from SourceSafe but forgot to get the latest versions from SourceSafe before doing so! Huge mistake. Is there a way that I can compare files in SourceSafe with those in TFS to view the differences or any…
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How to Automatically update build version and Build Date From Visual sourcesafe using Visual studio 2010

I have developed application in visual studio 2010. I want to show the build version and build date in my application about us form. I want to get the Build version and Build date automatically get update from visual sourcesafe ( version controller)
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want to adopt TFS without build management

I have a small team of 4 developers. We have been using VSS with a single unbranched repo (decision of predecessor). We have been playing with TFS cloud in hopes of creating a better solution. There is much to like about TFS cloud including agile…
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References missing when I checkin files to VSS 2005

I have added reference to few dlls in my VB.net Project. When I check into Visual source safe and get latest version from another machine, VS.net 2008 throws errors. I have to add the references again in that new machine. Is there anyway where I can…
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Visual Source Safe vs. GIT for Large C# .Net Development Project

I am currently working with a development company in India on a large C# .Net cloud-based application. We have millions of lines of code and 10+ developers working on the project. They are currently using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for our version…
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Importing documents from VSS to Sharepoint

I'm looking to export a folder in VSS2005 which contains word documents. Is it possible to export this to a sharepoint document library through the use of a tool? If possible, I would like to keep the version history. Thanks in advance :)
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