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Paolo





PostPosted: Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe, Vss data store Top

When Vss will use sql server like data store

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Frank Boyne





PostPosted: Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe, Vss data store Top

I very much doubt if Microsoft have any plans to convert Visual SourceSafe over to using SQL. If you want a Source Code Control system that uses SQl as the data store then Team Foundation Server would seem to be the product you want and not Visual SourceSafe.

Of course I'm not a Microsoft employee and I have no special knowledge of their plans for VSS. It is possible they might convert Visual SourceSafe to using SQL. It just seems unlikely (to me anyway) given the recent release of Team Foundation Server.


 
 
Brad Peterson





PostPosted: Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe, Vss data store Top

Paolo,

No current plans for moving to SQL as the back end. As Frank said, if you are looking for a source control system with transactions and high scalability, TFS is the current MS offering in that space

Thanks,

-Brad

Visual Studio Source Control Integration Lead


 
 
Srinivas0906





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How Can I set up Visual Source Safe 6.0 into Visual Studio 2005 (ASP.NET 2.0 Project)

Ever Since I start referring on it I always got references to MTFS (MS Team Foundation Services) and/or Visual Source Safe 2005.

Imagine I just wanted to work the same way as I did in VS2003 by integrating VSS6 into it, so that I don't need to open VSS6 day in day out. And can be able to checkin/checkout/getlatest from VS2005 itself.



 
 
Brad Peterson





PostPosted: Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe, Vss data store Top

If you have Visual SourceSafe installed, you just need to switch the source control provider in Visual Studio.

Start VS2005

Do Tools->Options->Source Control

On the Plug-In Selection tab, choose Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

Now, any projects you put under source control with use VSS on the back end.

-Brad


 
 
Frank Boyne





PostPosted: Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe, Vss data store Top

As an aside, you should probably have posted your question as a separate thread rather than replying to this one - this thread is already marked as answered so your new question is less likely to be seen.

How Can I set up Visual Source Safe 6.0 into Visual Studio 2005

I suspect what you are really asking is "How can I access my SourceSafe 6.0 database from within Visual Studio 2005 " I believe that Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual SourceSafe 2005 use the same basic data file format so you should be able to use Visual SourceSafe 2005 to access the same VSS database that other people are using Visual SourceSafe 6.0 to access. Obviously you won't get new Visual SourceSafe 2005 features like LAN helper etc but you will get access to your data (which is what you really care about). At least that's true for regular projects like C++ - I've not actually tried an ASP .NET project, there might be some gotcha I haven't thought about.

Since I start referring on it I always got references to MTFS (MS Team Foundation Services) and/or Visual Source Safe 2005

That's because Visual Studio 2005 shows you the Source Code Control capabilities installed on your system, in your case TFS and VSS 2005. You can't have VSS 2005 and VSS 6.0 installed side-by-side. Well, ctually nothing stops you but the VSS 2005 readme emphasises that you must uninstall VSS 6.0 before installing VSS 2005. Assuming you did that, VSS 6.0 is no longer installed as a Source Code Control Provider, hence it doesn't show up in Visual Studio 2005.


 
 
Richard Berg MSFT





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If you can install VSS 2005, that's my first recommendation. If you need to stick with VSS 6 for whatever reason, see this page: http://alinconstantin.homeip.net/WebDocs/SCC/_Vss6Vs2005.htm