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Old source code control solution from Microsoft. Superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft Visual Source Safe was the Microsoft solution to source control, up to 2005. Its main asset is a good integration with Visual Studio. As of 2011, you should not consider this as your source control solution, except for supporting a legacy setup.

Largely superseded by Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Some references about Sourcesafe:

MSDN Reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181038%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Microsoft Extended Support ends on 7/11/2017 : http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Visual+SourceSafe

Caveat :

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How do I convince my team to drop sourcesafe and move to SVN?

My development team uses source safe at a very basic level. We're moving into some more advanced and extended development cycles and I can't help but think that not using branching and merging in order to manage changes is going to be biting us very…
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Source control in Visual Studio 2010?

After doing some search on SO, Google and MSDN forums I've become frustrated that there is so little information for what might seem like an obvious question and possibly a dumb question. I need to use source control in Visual Studio 2010…
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Why should my team adopt source control?

I have the opportunity to give a formal presentation to my boss about anything that benefits the company. My idea is to adopt source control in my workplace. I have been using Mercurial to manage my own project at work, but the rest of the team…
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What's the right way to branch with Visual Source Safe?

What I currently do is I link the project to another location and give it the same name, then check the box where it says "Branch after share." And then I would Check out the shared project and work off it. And finally merge with the original…
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Create Project/solution in an existing directory?

How can I create a New project & Solution in the same, existing , directory? No matter what I do, it keeps creating a new (sub)directory for the project and populating that directory instead of the one(s) that already exist. I have the "Create…
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Why is Visual Studio constantly crashing?

Visual Studio randomly crashes when adding/removing references and projects. Any thoughts why? Will installing Sp1 help? EDIT: I do not work with any addons except SourceSafe. I do most of my development in connected mode. Developing using: …
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Best Practice for Git Repositories with multiple projects in traditional n-tier design

I'm making the switch from a centralized SCM system to GIT. OK, I'll admit which one, it is Visual SourceSafe. So in addition to getting over the learning curve of Git commands and workflow, the biggest issue I'm currently facing is how to migrate…
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Using Git with Visual Source Safe 6.0

Sorry for this horrid, horrid question.. but there's no way for me to not use VSS. I would like to be able to use Git locally for branch development, etc. while using Visual Source Safe 6. My knowledge of all of the ins and outs of Git is limited…
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How to Reset a Working folder VSS 2005

In Visual Source Safe 6.0, you could "reset" a working folder by setting it to a blank string. This meant that the working folder would be determined by the working folder of the parent. How do I do this in Visual Source Safe 2005?
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Best way to migrate from VSS to Subversion?

I'm a single developer looking to get off of Visual Source Safe and move to svn. A quick search brings up several tools, but I don't see a clear winner and I can't afford to spend a lot of time testing different tools. Has anyone done this…
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In what ways is Mercurial better/worse than TFS?

I've just joined a new company and at the moment we're using Microsoft SourceSafe as our repository. The settings aren't ideal and it's proving to be a big pain in the neck. I've recently used Mercurial and thought it was amazing, so I'm advocating…
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How can I index our internal source code?

Google Code Search has indexed Subversion and Mercurial repositories, so people can search open source projects. How can I do the same for my company's repository with the least effort and without publishing our code? We have Trac (with Subversion)…
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Where to start with source-control

Anyone have any suggestions on where to start for a newbie wanting to try out some sort of source-control along with a new journey into ASP.NET? SVN, VSS, CVS...I dont even know where to start!
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Moving from Visual Sourcesafe to Mercurial

What's the best way to move a Visual Sourcesafe repository to Mercurial (I'm interested in retaining all history)?
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Setting up a large software system in Delphi

We have a software package which is about 16 years old. It's gone through just about every version of Delphi (besides .NET ones). Over the years, things have become very confusing when it comes to cross-referencing and keeping proper setup for…
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