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Get Latest Version (Recursive) problem

Hope you guys can help with this.

We are running VSS 6.0d (build 9848) and VS2003
We have 11 projects in 1 solution.

When I click Get Latest Version (Recursive) on the solution it appears as if VS2003 is refreshing all the projects. When it finishes, I build the solution and usually run into a few build errors. These errors come from the fact that the 1 or more of the files that are being built are not actually the latest versions, so I then have to track those files down and check them out in order to get the actual latest versions. Once I do that, the project builds fine.

Usually it's not a big deal, but I just got finished hunting down and checking out 8 seperate files.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Robert Kitson

[748 byte] By [RobertKitson] at [2007-12-16]
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Have you checked the Source Control Output window to see if the missing files were in fact being 'got'?

When you do Get Latest Version (Recursive) from inside Visual Studio it gets the list of files defined that show in the Solution Explorer as belonging to the solution and projects you have opened.

If someone has added files to Visual SourceSafe using the SourceSafe client rather than Visual Studio 2003 (generally not such a good idea because of problems like this) then the list of files in SourceSafe won't match the list of files known to the VS2003 solution.

At least that's what causes alot of our problems with files not being 'got' when they should be. The fix is to add the file to the solution/project (using Add Existing Item). That way VS2003 knows about the file and gets it along with everything else.

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