June 2003 - Posts

Blogroll Addition: Alex Lowe
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. Read More...
Posted 26 June 03 03:42 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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How To: Switch Source Control Providers in VS.NET (Redux)
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 may require Read More...
Posted 26 June 03 03:36 by KorbyP | 10 Comments   
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How To: Switch Source Control Providers in VS.NET
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?print=true Read More...
Posted 25 June 03 08:36 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET
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 Read More...
Posted 24 June 03 06:40 by KorbyP | 22 Comments   
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VS.NET Automation Whitepaper Published
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 Read More...
Posted 23 June 03 02:28 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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Blogroll Addition
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 around Read More...
Posted 20 June 03 12:28 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Writer.Job.Validate();
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 Read More...
Posted 18 June 03 09:24 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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SourceSafe Labeling Tips
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 example, ss Read More...
Posted 16 June 03 05:34 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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Ed Kaim Developer Center Launched!
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 כלשה Read More...
Posted 13 June 03 04:40 by KorbyP | 4 Comments   
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Web Application Security Whitepaper Released
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. Read More...
Posted 13 June 03 12:58 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Cloning VSS Settings across Databases
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. To Read More...
Posted 12 June 03 02:57 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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Force_Dir, Get to Current Folder or Working Folder?
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 Read More...
Posted 10 June 03 06:12 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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SharpReader v0.9.1 Released
Get the latest version of this blogger's favorite feed aggregator: SharpReader 0.9.1 . Luke rocks! This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Microsoft kann für die Richtigkeit und Vollständigkeit der Inhalte in dieser Read More...
Posted 10 June 03 04:25 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Comparing Visual SourceSafe and Vault
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 Juan Read More...
Posted 09 June 03 04:11 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Start -> Run -> "SS Help"
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. Read More...
Posted 06 June 03 08:00 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt
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. Read More...
Posted 05 June 03 04:25 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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VSS Options, a Brief Architectural Overview
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\Microsoft Read More...
Posted 04 June 03 01:47 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Any Hardcore VSS Users Out There?
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 Read More...
Posted 03 June 03 07:20 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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