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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 Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.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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Visual Studio/Sourcesafe checkout problem

After a branch was created of a project I was working on, I don't seem to be able to checkout resource files anymore. I checked the sourcesafe with the administration tool, and I have sufficient rights on the project. I can checkout the files…
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How to label by date of file in Visual SourceSafe?

I would like to label a project and its files in VSS according to a certain previous date. In other words, I would like to be able to select versions of each file in a project as they existed on a particular date and then apply the label to those…
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Why does visual studio ask give option to discard in-memory changes?

When I save a solution that I have actually not made any changes to, I often get a dialog that tells me "Checking out without saving will cause you to lose your in-memory changes". It gives me a few options, Discard In-Memory changes, Check-Out,…
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Integrated Version Control for Visual Studio

What version control systems have you used to manage projects developed with Visual Studio (2005)? What would you recommend and Why? What limitations have you found with your top rated version control system?
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Writing a comment to a file in VSS 6.0 without using checkin method

I am writing an app that connects to VSS through c#, allows you to checkin and checkout files, but I use the move() method a lot and am wondering if there's anyway to add a comment to this moved file without having to check it out and check it back…
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Anybody know where I can get docs or tutorials on VSS 2005 Integration via .net

I know that I can add the SourceSafeTypeLib to a project and can explore it in object browser and find obvious things (GetLatest, etc), but I am looking for some more thorough documentation or specific tutorials on things like "undo another user's…
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missing new files from my project in Visual Sourcesafe 2005

I have a Visual Studio 2010 project that I keep in VSS 2005. I recently added some new code (working in C#) which includes new files with some new classes, a file with some enum types, and a file with several static Strings. I have checked back in…
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Unable to update Nuget Package for JQuery

I have a project in VS 2010 and using Visual Source Safe 2005 for source control system. Whenever I try to update my NuGet Package. It shows "Installed" but, there are a lot of red color lines that appear and go as Nuget is isntalling packages. I…
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VSS to TFS migration

I have migrated from VSS to TFS. But some of my team members have checked in some modifications to VSS again. How to migrate these changes to TFS again?
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VSS Check In Whole Site?

I am trying to work with Visual Source Safe while developing an ASP.NET MVC 3 site in Visual Studio Web Developer Express. There doesn't seem to be any integration between VS and VSS so I have to check in and check out manually. During the course…
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How do i share my asp.net code with my team without using a server?

I'm working on asp.net project using VS2010. I want to share my project code with one of my team member who is at some other geographical location but as we don't have a server we are not able to use TFS. Can anyone tell me how can I share my…
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Adding huge number of files and creating projects to VSS in a WPF app

I am using VSS interop DLLs and .NET to create a new subproject and save number of xml files in each project. Basically, the process connects to VSS on same domain. It has to create more than a 1000 subprojects under the main defined project, and…
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Can SourceSafe be configured to update AsemblyInfo

At work we have an (reasonable) agreement, that every time a project is updated, no matter how small change is, that is reflected in the Revision value of Assembly Information. This way we always know if a client is missing a patch or a feature,…
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VB6 exe not same in VSourceSafe after checking in

We started using VSS integrated with vb6 at our company, one problem we have is that the visual basic project file's make-version-number doesn't get updated after making an exe. Other form/code files do update though. What could be the reason &…
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Automatically Check In File On Save In Visual Source Safe

Is it possible to automatically check a file into Visual Source Safe after the local (working) copy had been changed? Our current process involves editing our code on Windows computer that are running VSS Explorer and after a check in VSS shadow…
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