Will VS2010 work with Visual Source Safe 2005?

Question

While I cannot convince others to upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010), I will continue to use Visual Source Safe 2005 (VSS2005). I will be switching to Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) soon. What do I need for VS2010 to work with VSS2005? I understand that there is a fix for VSS.

Answer 1

Here's the patch . I'm not sure if this is all you need to do this job or not.

Answer 2

If the VSS client is installed in your dev block, the VSS plugin will appear in the source plugin selection list in tools | options | source control inside Visual Studio.

VSS is terrible. Really, really bad. I mean, you might think that the asteroid that killed the aliens who lived here before the dinosaurs was bad, but it's just peanuts compared to VSS.

However, if you are stuck with it, it will essentially work with VS2010. I am in a difficult position because I want to switch to TFS, but content managers use SharePoint Designer (efficiently Expression, since we don’t have a SharePoint site). They are used to save the file and immediately view their changes on the dev server. Apart from installing Visual Studio on their machines, there seems to be no good way to leave this functionality when moving to a real version control system.

I feel your pain.

Answer 3

In my opinion .. Ditch VSS and use SVN , it's free, it has VS2010 integration tools, and it's better than VSS (again, my opinion). I would understand why, but there are many reservations about this .

If you like integration with Visual Studio, Ankh SVN works great. In addition, we use Tortoise for quick access from Windows Explorer.

All of the above, if our team was a little bigger, I think TFS will be worth it.

Git is also a very popular choice, but a way to manage things can make it a little slow for extremely large solutions. (I only read evidence of this fact, I have not tried it myself)

Answer 4

VS2010 supports VSS out of the box. Go to "Tools"> "Option"> "Source Control" change it from TFS to VSS