Removing SourceSafe Integration from Visual Studio 6

Question

Recently, the SourceSafe integration into visual studio has started to perform badly because we have moved, and the SourceSafe \"server\" is located across a VPN which goes

Answer 1

If the solutions mentioned above fail for you do this:

Rename folder: \Program Files\Microsoft\%vs%\Common7\IDE\VS SCC

VS will complain once about plug in not being there and you say "Yes" to ignore it in perpetuity.

All files “got latest,” “read only,” and edited in VS, will make VS complain and offer to “override”, which works fine for me.

What do you gain:

• Open VSS-linked solutions quickly without VS matching contents to VSS server.

• Open VSS-linked solutions and EDIT the files at will without being bogged down in “check out” bs.

• This makes using other distributed source control system on top of project tree with VSS bindings painless.

• VSS client still works by itself just fine, including diff, checkout, checkin.