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Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
Released: Visual Studio .NET SCC Plugin for gotdotnet Workspaces
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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As Peter Bromberg notes, we recently released an updated source control plug-in* for gotdotnet Workspaces that enables you to work on projects stored in gotdotnet (check in, check out, and other source control operations) from the comfort of your very...
Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
Enumerating the # and names of files in a VSS folder
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem: "You can use VSS Automation to...
Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
New SourceSafe Utility: DATAWIZ
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Here's a little internal Microsoft dirt: I'm the person behind the scenes who reviews and approves or rejects all gotdotnet User Samples submissions. For the record, this will not always be my job (things change) but for now, I actually look forward to...
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TechEd Europe: Dev 466 Team Foundation Source Control
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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I'm blogging to you live from the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands where Ashwin Karuhatty and Brian Randall are introducing European developers and IT professionals to Visual Studio Team Foundation version control (or source control, if you...
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A New VSS Web Interface
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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This looks interesting: "SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe web interface that allows you to use all of Visual Source Safe's features from Internet Explorer anywhere in the world. No client side installations required, simply point your browser at...
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'Change Source Control' Menu Disappears in Visual Studio
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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A reader recently emailed me the following issue/question: "I recently installed the VS 2005 December CTP on a machine that also has VS 2003 installed. I uninstalled the CTP today and now my VS2003 'change source control' menu choice (from the file menu...
Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
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over 7 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor...
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VSS Analyze Script #4
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Okay, I give in. Who is behind the new DevelopmentNow blog ? Whoever it is, they just posted a VSS database analysis script (Win script...untested by me) that provides a third alternative to the two scripts (one PERL, one VBScript) and link to a third...
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VSS vs. Team Foundation Version Control | Checkout Behavior
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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"Unexpected Get" was the subject of a very interesting email thread that passed through my Outlook Inbox today. I mentioned the issue it raises in a previous post: Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Checking Out . Basically, VSS and Team Foundation perform...
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Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Cloaking
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Klingons and Romulans everywhere will bristle with pride when they learn that cloaking has survived the conceptual port from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation. Cloaking is a vital feature in VSS as it speeds up expensive Get operations and conserves...
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Jason Mauss’ VSS Tips & Tricks
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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This deserves more than a trackback: Jason Mauss' VSS Tips and Tricks
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How To: Win an Autographed Visual Studio 2005 Baseball
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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In response to my previous post, Inspired Software Development::VSS Performance Improvements , Jason Mauss provides an excellent VSS performance tip: "Most people administrating VSS don't seem to know about setting the CP_OnSelection value to NO. This...
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SourceSafe PowerToy: VSS User Management
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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[ CheckItOut ] “A while ago the SourceSafe product team had a focus week on creating sample applications that solved common community issues. We call them “PowerToys”. The goal for these sample applications is to address frequently asked...
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SQL ScriptSafe
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Has anyone out there used SQL ScriptSafe ? If so, did it meet your needs? Have you used similar tools ? How does it compare?
Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
VSSEMS - a Utility for SourceSafe Administrators
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Currently, it is not possible to migrate or copy a list of users and their concominant rights/assignments from an existing VSS database to another one, using either shipped VSS features or programmatically, using IVSS. However, our capable friends in...
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Pin: the “Share my greatest, not my latest” Feature in VSS
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over 8 years ago
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If you code like me, your latest version of a file or project is almost never your greatest. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mark a version of a file or changeset as “use this one!” so that your teammates would stop bugging you...
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My Blog Year in Review
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over 8 years ago
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It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is...
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SourceSafe and WinDBG
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over 8 years ago
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[ Updated May 11, 2004 to fix gnarled grammar] If you are interested in automatically retrieving versioned source code files from Visual SourceSafe during a debugging session with WinDBG, just email me your address and I will send you tools and scripts...
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Copy-Modify-Merge for VSS
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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Rich explains how to allow multiple checkouts on a per project basis in Visual SourceSafe. When you set Multiple_Checkouts to Yes in your SRCSAFE.INI or SS.INI file, you enable the Copy-Modify-Merge collaboration model that is often associated with CVS...
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VSS and WinDBG ++ Together at Last
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over 8 years ago
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Are you a hardcore debugger: a kernel-mode, device driver-writin' stud? Do you avoid chrome-plated GUI and your mouse at all costs? If so, you can stop right now. This post isn't exactly for you. At the other end of the spectrum, if you're one of the...
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How To: Easily Add Folders to VSS Recursively
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over 8 years ago
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To add a folder and all of its subfolders and files to a SourceSafe database quickly and easily Drag the folder from Windows Explorer and drop it into SourceSafe Explorer. In the Add Folder dialog box, click Recursive , enter a comment in the...
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Answers to Your SourceSafe Questions
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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An email arrived in my Inbox recently from a customer that read, “I've got ALOT of questions, and I hope you could help me... How do I use Shadowing in .NET? How can I force users to check in their files and log out of SourceSafe so...
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Recursive Get of VSSVersion and VSSItem Doesn't Work in VSS 6.0d
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over 8 years ago
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By default, the Get method does not work recursively in Visual SourceSafe 6.0d. Accompanying error message: “Version not found“. You can obtain a hotfix from Microsoft's hardest working employees in Product Support Services. For details, see...
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RSS for Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Articles
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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In a recent email exchange between me, my dev lead, PM, and one of the developers on the SourceSafe team, I suggested that a KB article would be the most appropriate documentation delivery channel for a minor technical issue we were discussing. Since...
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RSS for VSS
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over 8 years ago
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MSDNArchive
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[ S.B. Chatterjee ] Greg Reinacker's tool that generates RSS feeds from Visual SourceSafe was re-released today . Very cool.
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