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Visual SourceSafe The official Microsoft SourceSafe home page... |
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Technical articles and whitepapers for Visual SourceSafe General content... |
Error Messages
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Visual SourceSafe List of Error Messages (With Knowledge Base links). Use the Find feature of your browser to quickly locate Visual SourceSafe error messages on this page... |
Problems or 'PRB's (Microsoft don't have Bugs)
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Visual SourceSafe Product Support. Support options for Visual SourceSafe available in the United States and Canada. Documented bugs in Visual SourceSafe 6.0. Bugs in Visual SourceSafe 5.0 that are fixed in Visual SourceSafe 6.0... |
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Visual SourceSafe Bug Lists. Knowledge Base article listing of confirmed bugs in Visual SourceSafe versions 4.0, 5.0... |
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Microsoft On-Line bug center.> The Bug Center is a customized search interface for the Microsoft Knowledge Base, allowing you to find articles about known bugs and fixes for many of the most popular Microsoft development products and technologies. |
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Q130270 - BUG: SourceSafe Reports a Date/Time of 1/1/70 This is caused by a corrupt Status.dat file. What to do about it... |
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Submit Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Bug Report. It's free. But don't expect an acknowledgment. The empire has long since passed the stage of paying attention to lowly developers... |
Database Repair
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ANALYZE commands. Analyze command syntax. |
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Visual SourceSafe - ANALYZE download page. The current version of the Analyze utility is 6.00.8169. Check this page from time to time to see if Microsoft have updated to a new version. Analyze detects and validates all files in the database. It also enables you to fix any potential errors and remove files that are no longer active in the Visual SourceSafe database... |
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How to Detect and Fix Database Corruption Errors in SourceSafe. This article is somewhat outdated and is included for reference only. |
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How ANALYZE Passes Work. The ANALYZE database scan and repair tool scans a Visual SourceSafe database in four different passes. Each pass completes a different database operation and, depending on the problem found, some passes may take significantly longer than... |
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Undocumented command line utility : SS PHYSICAL. This Microsoft article documents a utility that correlates Sourcesafe XXXXXXXX hash file names to the corresponding Project names... A free tool ssnpl available on the site with rather more functionality. |
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Error messages from Analyze Tool of Visual SourceSafe. This article reviews common error messages and status messages produced by the Analyze tool for Visual SourceSafe 4.0 and 5.0... |
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'Analyze' search results More analyze articles... |
Visual SourceSafe 6.0
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Visual SourceSafe 6.0 - Technical Information. Technical FAQ, Technical Articles, Tutorials, Product Documentation, and Technical Support... |
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Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Readme. Known problems, Before you run Setup!, Installation, General Notes and Tips... |
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Visual SourceSafe 6.0 - Automation. This article discusses the Visual C++ programmatic interface to Visual SourceSafe 6.0... |
Japanese SourceSafe
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Microsoft Japan. Open this in Internet Explorer.. Netscape either dies or renders it incorrectly even with 'Japanese Autodetect' set... |
Background
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How SourceSafe Stores Files. SourceSafe translates all files and project names into a corresponding internal hash file name - for instance TBAAAAAA. How it does it, and what can go wrong... |
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SourceSafe Best Practices. Outlines recommended practices to help prevent data corruption in Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe®. Includes a discussion on the data repair Analyze tool that ships with the product. Covers: General Database Recommendations, How Visual SourceSafe Tracks Files, Finding and Repairing Data Corruption, Backup and Restore, Article Reference... |
Search Engines
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Google Premier second generation search engine. Do you feel lucky?... |
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Microsoft Site Search The official word.... |
Products from independent Vendors
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Change and Configuration Management Tools A quite comprehensive list of tools classified by type and operating system. |
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Visual SourceVizor - Team productivity Tool Designed for companies with remote development teams and tele-commuters that need fast and secure read/write access to a centralized SourceSafe database via any TCP/IP connection... |
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SourceOffSite - Access Visual SourceSafe over the Internet! SourceSafe Administrator's tool... |
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