VSS integration with VS.NET

[chiph]

As much as I hate VSS, that's what they're using at the new job (until they can get Clearcase installed).

I'm having some problems where VS.NET says a file is checked out (and won't let me check it back in). I've been doing things like deleting the .vssscc files, etc. to try and coerce it back into following what the SourceSafe explorer says, but no luck.

Any idea where VS.NET keeps it's source control info, so I can tweak it back into shape?

Chip H.


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[stsuing]

If you log into source safe as the administrator, there might be a way to check-in the file "OnBehalf" of the user that has it checked out. I don't think you'll be able to fix this from the VS IDE easily.

This is quite a messy situation, at the worst..
Make the file you need read/write
1)copy out the file
2)right click on the file >>> go to properties >>> uncheck read only.

In the meantime, delete it from the project, then go into Source Safe and delete it from there.

Then add the one you copied out back into the project.

You got to love source safe. It's almost harder then programming itself

 

[chiph]

I managed to persuade it to work.

What I did was select the solution in the solution explorer, go into the source control dialog (file | source control), and disconnect all projects from source control. I then exited VS.NET.

I then restarted VS.NET, went back into the source control dialog, and reconnected everything.

I'm not saying this would work for anyone else -- there seems to be a lot of random behavior with this stuff, but it worked for me.

Thanks for the help, stsuing!

Chip H.


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