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# Philip Rieck said on August 10, 2003 5:14 PM:

Two points to add: 1) In VSS, you have to install the application that sends the notification on every client, or check-ins from clients without the app will not send notification (since VSS has more of a client / fileserver arch then client / server) This gets a bit annoying, especially when you update, need to reconfigure, or install a new client 2) NET SEND is evil. If you don't have TweakUI, it gets to interrupt you while you work. There's no history of messages, and they're limited-length plain text.

# Korby Parnell said on August 12, 2003 1:23 PM:

Great points. Perhaps we should do something to improve the deployability of client-side administrative add-ins for VSS. I sorta like the modality of NET SEND dialogs though. I agree that the lack of message history is an issue. I'll post some code for both email and NET SEND notification systems asap. -Korby

# Ken Roberts said on August 22, 2003 9:40 PM:

http://www.sourcevizor.com/ is a commercial product that adds this functionality to VSS

# Kevin Greiner said on September 5, 2003 4:31 PM:

Another possibility would be to use VSS Automation to daily check for changed files and compile a single email contains a list of those files, who checked them in, comments, etc. Come to think of it, that would be pretty handy for us to have! Hmmm......

# Victor Soares said on February 18, 2004 4:17 PM:

I thought this would be a very useful thing to try and implement so I gave it a shot. I tried converting the VB 5 code from the whitepaper to VB.NET but it didn't work out... probably because I don't have much vb.net experience.

When I launch VSS I get a message saying "Error loading SourceSafe add-in: VSSWormPlugin2.Plugin". I have no idea where to look to get a more detailed message.

Has anybody been able to get this to work?

Below is my code... maybe somebody can point out where i'm going wrong:

<PRE>
Option Strict On
Imports System.IO

Public Class Plugin

Implements SourceSafeTypeLib.IVSSEventHandler

Dim WithEvents VSSHandler As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSApp

Sub Init(ByVal pIVSS As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSApp) Implements SourceSafeTypeLib.IVSSEventHandler.Init

VSSHandler = pIVSS

Dim writer As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("c:\vssPlugin.txt")
writer.WriteLine("Plugin initiated.")
writer.Close()

End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeAdd(ByVal pIPrj As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal Local As String, ByVal Comment As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeAdd
VSSHandler_BeforeAdd = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterAdd(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String, ByVal Comment As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterAdd
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeBranch(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal Comment As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeBranch
VSSHandler_BeforeBranch = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterBranch(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal Comment As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterBranch
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeCheckIn(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String, ByVal Comment As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeCheckin
VSSHandler_BeforeCheckIn = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterCheckIn(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String, ByVal Comment As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterCheckin
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeCheckOut(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String, ByVal Comment As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeCheckout
VSSHandler_BeforeCheckOut = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterCheckOut(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String, ByVal Comment As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterCheckout

End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeRename(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal NewName As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeRename
VSSHandler_BeforeRename = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterRename(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal OldName As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterRename
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeUndoCheckOut(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeUndoCheckout
VSSHandler_BeforeUndoCheckOut = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterUndoCheckOut(ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal LocalSpec As String) Handles VSSHandler.AfterUndoCheckout
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeginCommand(ByVal unused As Integer) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeginCommand
VSSHandler_BeginCommand = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_EndCommand(ByVal unused As Integer) Handles VSSHandler.EndCommand
End Sub

Function VSSHandler_BeforeEvent(ByVal iEvent As Integer, ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal Str As String, ByVal Var As Object) As Boolean Handles VSSHandler.BeforeEvent
VSSHandler_BeforeEvent = True
End Function

Sub VSSHandler_AfterEvent(ByVal iEvent As Integer, ByVal Item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem, ByVal Str As String, ByVal Var As Object) Handles VSSHandler.AfterEvent
End Sub

End Class
</PRE>

# Korby Parnell said on February 23, 2004 1:48 PM:

Victor,
One of my developers responded to this query offline with:
"There was a bug affecting this area that we fixed recently - the plugin name was limited to 31 characters.
Is it possible that the chosen name for the plugin was longer than 'VSSWormPlugin2.Plugin'? (this one has only 21 characters)

Also, the plugin must be registered before using it, so we can co-create the COM object based on its GUID. Did the customer run regsvr32.exe on the dll before running SSExp to add the required registry entries under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT?"

Please advise. Korby

# Ron Eyink said on February 27, 2004 8:17 AM:

Has anyone successfully converted the VB5 code from the whitepaper to VB.Net. I am working on a project to automate our build process and this functionality would add great value for the process.

I have attempted, and what I am seeing is that the Init sub is running fine, but no other function or sub seems to be called. Also the action in VSS (ie Checkout, Checkin, Add . . .) is not performed.

My code is identical to that from Victor's post above with the exception I made the plugin name VSS.Plugin. Object is registered and I am able to debug and trap the successful call to the init sub.

Any ideas?

# Nir Livni said on April 25, 2004 11:53 PM:

Hi,
Some of our developers also get "Error loading SourceSafe add-in: <name>".
The length of the name is less than 31 bytes. (about 19 bytes).
Any news about this one ?
Thanks,
Nir

# Nir Livni said on April 26, 2004 12:07 AM:

Hi,
Some of our developers also get "Error loading SourceSafe add-in: <name>".
The length of the name is less than 31 bytes. (about 19 bytes).
Any news about this one ?
Thanks,
Nir

# Greg Partin said on May 28, 2004 7:15 AM:

Hi,

Has anyone figured this out yet? I have written the code in C#, not a COM object and I'm wondering how to let SourceSafe know that the dll is there. I know in the whitepapers I have seen I have to create a file called ssaddin.ini and place <ProgID>=1 in this file but is this the same as with a .NET dll?

Regards,
Greg

# Enda said on June 3, 2004 1:47 AM:

Hi,

I am displaying the VSS Source Safe Database in a tree structure on a C# Form. I can check items in and out but am having trouble Getting Latest Version. Has anyone any ideas ?

Regards,
Enda.

# Korby Parnell said on June 3, 2004 10:49 AM:

What version of VSS are you using and are you attempting a recursive Get or a simple one?

# Enda said on June 22, 2004 4:07 AM:

I am Using VSS version 6, i am using a Simple Get

# Hem said on June 21, 2005 6:28 AM:

Hey,

I am implementing the VSS events as posted in micorsoft msdn web site, I added Project1.Class1=1 also.

When I launch VSS it showed me the message, but immediatly it is crashing?

Did any one can help me.....

Thanks

# Y.Srinu said on August 30, 2005 5:06 AM:

Any body know how to add a project( folder ) to VSS database programatically?

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I am encountering "Invalid Access code (bad parameter)" error when i am performing an archive of restored folders. my current version of VSS is 6.0d. did anybody see this error?

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