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SourceSafe 2005 Update is available for download!

I'm very pleased to announce that the wait is over.  Today the first official update for SourceSafe 2005 went live on the web.  Download away -- it's only 3.5MB.

To quickly bring new readers up to date: this update is a rollup of 64 VSS bug fixes.  We focused hard on customer pain points; almost 3/4 of these fixes came directly from people like you filing bugs on Connect and/or calling Customer Support.  The result is a variety of improvements to performance, stability, and reliability, plus a few long-time annoyances.  In addition, we focused on compatibility with VS 2008 and Vista.  I've gone into detail on those topics before so I won't repeat myself. 
VS2008
Vista part1 part2

On the other hand, if you've stayed up to date with our VSS releases and are currently running the CTP, there's still plenty here for you.

  • full support for all 6 languages (English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish)
  • no manual install step
  • 7 extra bug fixes, including some we thought were severe enough to push back this ship date twice :)
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:27 PM by Richard Berg
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Normal people bore me! said:

Disponibile l'aggiornamento per Visual SourceSafe 2005

# December 11, 2007 9:14 PM

Jim said:

Should this be installed on the server side too?

I saw no notes about this on the release notes.

# December 11, 2007 10:47 PM

Richard Berg said:

Yes, although there are no changes to either of the VSS server components (RPC LAN service, HTTP web service).  What installing it on the server gives you is the ability to run the latest version of the admin tools (e.g. Analyze) locally.

# December 11, 2007 11:04 PM

bharry's WebLog said:

Yesterday we released an update to VSS 2005 to address customer reported issues and ensure that it will

# December 12, 2007 8:15 AM

My VSTS Blog said:

While all the focus on version control over the past few years has been on Team Foundation Server, it

# December 12, 2007 9:31 PM

plodoc said:

Thanks a lot for this update.

The file information given at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943847 may need to be fixed.

The new version seems to be 8.0.50727.1551 instead of 8.0.50727.941

# December 13, 2007 11:30 AM

Fizick said:

All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site.

http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2007/12/06/bad-behavior-2011/

# December 13, 2007 1:18 PM

Richard Berg said:

plodoc - it's fixed already :)

Fizick - is this in regards to Avisynth?  I know I haven't been around Doom9 much this year; I'll try to have a look this weekend.

# December 13, 2007 2:30 PM

Fizick said:

doom9 is fine :) but wiki (as well as many others wiki ang blogs) is in confusing "anti-spam" read-only mode for about week or two.

Sorry for off-topic.

# December 13, 2007 3:42 PM

Public Sector Developer Weblog said:

Microsoft has released an "update" to fix several issues ( see list here ), but more importantly

# December 16, 2007 8:04 PM

SergioTarrillo's RichWeblog said:

Ha sido liberado una actualización de Visual Source Safe 2005 , que entre otras cosas de corregir unos

# December 26, 2007 7:44 AM

Wyatt Wong said:

I installed the SourceSafe 2005 Update but I got the unexpected error from time to time when I perform the "Get Latest version (recursive)" in Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 installed. Please refer to the error message snapshot in SourceSafe 2005 http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j162/wyattwong/VisualSourceSafe2005Error.jpg for details.

# January 6, 2008 8:34 PM

Binu Thayamkery said:

I am trying to setup VS.Net 2008 (I use Team System). Installed VSS 2005 Update, still no luck with VS.Net 2008. It does not show VSS integration - No Menu item for Source Control !!

Any one ....Any clues?

# January 7, 2008 4:31 PM

Richard Berg said:

If you selected "VB developer" the first time you ran VS, the "Source Control" section of Tools -> Options is hidden until you click "more options" at the bottom of the dialog.

# January 8, 2008 5:01 PM
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