Oddur Magnusson

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Visual Source Safe Drama

I find it a shame how bad Visual Source Safe is compared to the rest of development products Microsoft are releasing.

This product is probably used by most Visual Studio users but still, it's reliability, user interface and quality in general sucks.

Microsoft, please, add some resources to you VSS team before the Whidbey release !

Or, just buy Sourcegear and use theirs ;)

 

now, on to moving our VSS DB to a new server ... *shrug*

Posted: Nov 27 2003, 03:29 PM by oddurmag | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

Chris Stewart said:

I wish they would. A group at my University has just started a large project and we're going to use VSS. I wish there was a better way...
# November 27, 2003 11:12 AM

Frans Bouma said:

I haven't had problems with vss though, and I have a lot of projects stored in the current database. You should keep databases < 1GB though. Most people who have probs with VSS have large databases of over 4GB and store a lot of binaries in the system, which is useless, since VSS doesn't perform versioning on binaries.

Although I agree that VSS is crap when you think about it that the same tool was around in 1998 with the same featureset. I'm now refactoring the runtime libraries of LLBLGen Pro and it's a bit of a pain that vss doesn't have a nice merge facility per project, you have to do that by hand, plus integration with VS.NET sux too, because VS.NET can't deal with VSS projects, it uses its own project files, thus when you branche a solution, you have to manipulate the vss info of the project by hand as well...
# November 28, 2003 6:04 AM
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