Visual SourceSafe
Visual "Source Safe", Microsoft's laughable attempt at source-control that will cost you time, effort, blood, and tears.
How to recursively branch your files in SourceSafe.
A summary of how to use Visual Source Safe (VSS) Pinning. Pinning is a feature that can be used to set a certain version as releasable, and when you run 'Get latest version' it will give you the pinned version, rather than the latest one, which may not be suitable for release yet. It also can be used in conjunction with Visual Source safe branching and sharing.
If you've ever had two or more source-safe projects with shared files, you might be shocked to learn that Visual SourceSafe 2005 breaks one of the holy grails of good design: user expectations. But alas, Visual SouceSafe 2005 merges changes, not branches!
If you've ever had two or more source-safe projects with shared files, you might be shocked to learn that Visual SourceSafe 2005 breaks one of the holy grails of good design: user expectations.
You would expect that, if you delete a shared file from one project, it gets branched. I mean, you deleted it, right? But alas, Visual SouceSafe 2005 shares deleted files!