Can I trust Visual Source Safe 2005?

Monday, February 6, 2006

.NET

Whenever I open my solution and projects in VS2005, lots of error messages come out and one of it is asking me to "analyze the Vss Db" in Vss Administration console, I did and my Vss Db is healthy:

I'm really frustrated about this message because it's not useful at all. BTW, I made 10 changes in my codes and change the "Start Up project" in Solution Explorer. However, the previous start up project still set as default when I open the solution next time. Also, only 4-5 changes were checked in to the Vss tree. The most horrible thing is the number of checked-in changes are variable. I even don't know how many changes that Vss do REALLY store and I have to double check and amend the same change again and again!

I searched the forum and noticed someone face similar problem but no resolution, and I found nothing on the support site about this topic as well. Anyone face this problem or know how to solve it?

(The solution for me right now is that I remind myself DON'T click "Save All" button and NEVER close VS2005 as these 2 actions will make my VS2005 "hang" and "lost" few of my changes.. WTH)

Colt Kwong

5 Comments

Happens to me all the time!

Bradley T - Monday, February 6, 2006 1:59:00 PM

It happens a lot with VSS, and its very disconcerting. You wont notice it as much when you're the only one using it, but I frequently have problems with it when getting other team members to "Get Latest" and my changes (THAT I HAVE CHECKED IN!) arent copied to the target.

As a matter of fact, those files that I had CHECKED OUT, EDITED, and then CHECKED IN appear to have NOT BEEN CHECKED OUT AT ALL! Scary. Yip. Good job VSS, its still a P.O.S.!

Eric Newton - Monday, February 6, 2006 9:30:00 PM

Hi Colt,

Can you send me mail (scottgu@microsoft.com) with a description of the problem. I'll then add a few people to thread and we can investigate what is going on here.

Thanks,

Scott

scottgu - Monday, February 6, 2006 11:02:00 PM

what are the limits (data size) of source safe ??

rafacho - Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:38:42 PM

4 GB is the storage limit of Visual Source Safe 2005.

Waseem Shahzad - Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:58:08 AM

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