VSS 2005 RC0

After uninstalling Visual Studio Beta 2 and installing Visual Studio 2005
RC0, Visual Source Safe does not work. I can't find VSS 2005 RC0 in the
downloads section and VSS 6 does not work with Visual Studio 2005 RC0. Is
anyone else having this problem?

Thanks,
Greg

[293 byte] By [GregFinzer] at [2007-12-17]
# 1
Hi Greg,

The Release Candidate only contains the VSTS SKU, it doesn't contain other products, like SourceSafe.

You actually should be able to work with VSS 6.0 and the RC. It may require that you re-install VSS 6.0, since there are some shared registry keys that probably got removed when you uninstalled the beta (SourceSafe 2005 is not side-by-side compatible with SourceSafe 6.0)

Let me know if you have trouble after installing,

AlfredoMendezMSFT at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio,Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe...
# 2
Okay the problem is resolved. There is a release candidate 0 of Visual Source Safe on the 2005 RC0 Team Suite CD but it is not off the installation menu or on the MSDN Universal downloads. Source Safe 6.0 does not work with Visual Studio 2005 RC0
GregFinzer at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio,Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe...
# 3

I got VSS 6 to work with VS 2005 RC0 by re-registering the ssscc.dll as follows:

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\win32\ssscc.dll"

In VS 2005 RC0, you need to go to Tools)Options)SourceControl to pick the VSS6 plug-in.

You also may have to check the "Show all settings" option in the dialog box.

JQuick at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio,Visual Studio Source Control and SourceSafe...

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