Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

Howdy. Pardon the recent silence. I was summoned for jury duty last week and selected for service :-|. Thankfully, it was a short trial. I was unplugged, albeit unsequestered, for the entire week. Okay okay okay, I wasn't completely unplugged. I absconded...

Step 1: Since I can only add files to a VSS database, the first step is to figure out how to [programmatically] transform my SQL Server database objects (stored procedures, UDFs, table schema, etc) into text files. One idea is to write a C# class...

Q: 'How can I backup my SQL Server stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, and other database objects using VSS?' A1: If you work in Visual Studio .NET 2003 with source control integration, you can opt to install a SQL Server versioning component that...

Serdar Kilic (cool name::pronunciation unknown) has also written a utility for switching SCC providers on the fly . I haven't had a chance to compare it to Soenke Schau's tool (also a cool name::pronunciation unknown) that I mentioned in a recent...

Please pardon the recent lack of posts. I've been OOF sick. I plan to evacuate my sanity from Inbox and start posting again next Monday. If you're outside the United States, note that this is July 4 weekend (Independence Day). For the July 4 weekend...

Added Alex Lowe to my blogroll today. Alex is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET, a member of the ASPAlliance community, and a really nice guy. I look forward to meeting him in person one of these days.

Following up on yesterday's post , here's the manual procedure from the ever-helpful folks on the Team Development team in Microsoft Product Support Services : WARNING : If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that...

Currently, Visual Studio.NET provides no easy way to switch between source control providers (for example, VSS and PVCS). To workaround this issue, Soenke Schau has designed a nifty little tool: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/sccswitcher.asp...

A customer recently sent me the following code, which uses VSS automation to open a SourceSafe database via an ASP.NET page. He was running IIS locally against a remote VSS server and, upon running the code got the following error message: ”The SourceSafe...

Busy busy in the VSS corral. My friend and esteemed colleague Kemp Brown just released a whitepaper to MSDN entitled Frequently Asked Questions About Visual Studio .NET Automation that will, if you use Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003, become an invaluable...

The blogroll rolls... Added Dan Fernandez , another GDN blogger to my blogroll this morning. Dan is a Product Manager (a professional technology enthusiast) in Microsoft's Developer Division. Imagine being 12 years old again and getting hired to run...

Automatic English generators are one of my favorite modern app-liances. They slice. They dice. They cut. it. up. I can't get enough of their quirks and foibles. They validate my existence. One of my all-time favorites is Scott Pankin's Automatic Complaint...

When creating labels in Visual SourceSafe, avoid label names that begin with numerals or the letter ‘L’. Here’s why: Avoid Numerical Labels When used in combination with -vL , labels that start with a number are not processed correctly. For...

Ed Kaim , former VSS marketing lead and producer of the best Matrix Reloaded review on the Net , launched the Ed Kaim Developer Center today "with great fanfare". You go Ed! הודעה זו מסופקת "כפי שהיא" ללא כל אחריות או חיובים, ואינה נותנת לך זכויות...

I love this whitepaper summary (posted by Anil John ). There's enough hyphens for everyone on your team :-). Alex must have written this one. Cheers Alex! I've been waiting for a Web security whitepaper of this depth and breadth. Happy weekend reading...

Stupid VSS Trick #2 '-D' stands for Deprecated. VSS admins are constantly asking how to copy database settings, such as user list, permissions, custom srcsafe.ini variables, and user-specific ss.ini settings from an existing database to a new one...

I promised I would return to the Force_Dir initialization variable (aka 'Assume Working Folder Based on Current Project') and now, at last, I can. Unless you have a ton of existing VSS scripts, I encourage you to change the inexplicable default value...

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The other day, a reader emailed me some questions regarding the functional differences between Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and SourceGear Vault . I'd rather talk about the awesome sailing I enjoyed this weekend on a friend's boat in the lovely San...

If you click Start , click Run , type "SS Help", click OK and nothing really happens, this post is for you. At the end of yesterday's post, Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt , I mentioned a pair of environment variables, PATH and SSDIR, almost in passing...

I was planning to discuss the Force_Dir initialization variable today but requests from the blogosphere take precedence. :-) Mark Hurley poses the oft asked question: " I've been wanting to know for a while how to default the login window with my name...

In Visual SourceSafe, the values of options--such as those visible in the Options dialog box--are stored in one of two initialization files: SRCSAFE.ini or SS.ini. You can find SRCSAFE.ini in the root VSS installation directory (e.g., C:\Program Files...

Over the last few months, I've been looking at the Visual SourceSafe command line documentation. It's a wonderful little cabinet of knowledge, a true Wunderkammer of the sort that can swallow a technical writer whole and bore even the most interested...

If you're like me, you don't necessarily label your Visual SourceSafe* project folders as methodically or as often as you should. My failure to do so recently found in me in a pickle. Here's what I did and how I worked around it: Over the course...

Yes, you can use drive mapping to connect to a VSS db remotely. I must warn you though, this is an interesting hack but it's slower than a dead banana slug on a wet Seattle morning. If you want to do any work on the files in a VSS 6.0 or earlier database...