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SourceSafe Tools

I have tried to collect here a complete list of every third party SourceSafe product, tool, utility, add-in and resource on the planet.

New tools from the international community are VssMon an alert utility by Ivan-Assen Ivanov (Sofia, Bulgaria), SourceSafe2Subversion by Kirit and Tai Saelensminde (FSL Technologies, London, England), and SQL to SourceSafe Scripter by Serkan Subasi (SBS Software , Istanbul Turkiye).

If you want to suggest a product that i've missed then please . I am particularly interested in products from publishers outside the US, in languages other than English.

'US$ GBP Euros' indicate a commercial license. Don't let this annotation put you off. Almost every product offers a free trial, and some offer free one user licenses.
'Free' - may imply GNU or other licence restrictions.
'S-W' - indicates ShareWare.
'MLS' - indicates multiple language support.
'SAR' - some assembly required.

If you found this page useful you might want to check out the companion page listing every third party Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation System product, tool, utility, add-in and resource on the planet.

.Net

1. JDev VSS Extension

Publisher: SourceForge Category: Addins .Net Pricing: Free

Extension for JDeveloper providing support for both MS SourceSafe and SourceGear SourceOffSite.

2. VssWebHandler

Publisher: Omid Bayani Category: .Net Pricing: Free

VssWebHandler is an ASP.NET handler allowing access to any number of SourceSafe databases using any browser. Built with.NET framework 1.0. It may work with .NET framework 1.1 but it has not been tested yet. Visual Source Safe 6.0c.

3. VssRssSvc

Publisher: Greg Reinacker Category: .Net RSS Pricing: Free

This very cool tool runs as a Windows service, and generates RSS feeds based on the change logs in VSS. It requires .NET 1.1, and build files are included for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

4. SyncVss

Publisher: Creekside Technology Group Category: .Net Pricing: US$

SyncVss propagates renames and deletes of files and folders from Visual Studio.Net to Visual SourceSafe.
It supplies the functionality not provided by Microsoft (Microsoft Knowledge Base article 305516; [INFO: SSAFE: Renames and Deletions Not Supported for Source Code Control Through the Visual Studio .NET IDE].

SyncVss uses VS.Net to synchronize the Web Project Fileshare and the VSS database
Synchronization enables building of .Net projects from the Visual SourceSafe database rather than directly from developer local directories or uncontrolled FileShares.

Cut and paster of files and folders is supported and will replicate the changes to VSS.
Drag and Drop of files and folders and replication to VSS is NOT supported.

Creekside sell and support SyncVss on an as-requested basis for Visual Studio 2003 users only. To contact them use the link on this page.

5. Daily Label

Publisher: Novick Software Category: .Net Pricing: Free

The program creates a label in Visual SourceSafe. The SQL Agent Job is used to make sure it happens every day.

6. Thin Client Smart

Publisher: Gerald Naveen Category: .Net Pricing: Free

VSSThinClientSmart is a thin-client for Microsoft� Visual SourceSafe. The application targets the .NET Compact Framework and the .NET Framework to provide a user-friendly GUI to access a Visual SourceSafe database over a network from a Pocket PC or SmartPhone.

7. DDL Archive Utility

Publisher: Bill Wunder Category: .Net Pricing: One full license free

Based upon the DMO object model, this utility generates consistently formatted Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Data Definition Language (DDL) scripts and archives them into a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe repository.

Difference reports between environments provide fast forward or backward recovery capability especially useful for for forward recovery of stored procedures and triggers in development and rollback recovery for stored procedures and triggers in production.

8. SourceSafe Binding Remover

Publisher: Darrell Norton Category: .Net Pricing: Free

Tool to remove all SourceSafe bindings from a selected folder, including subfolders. It displays the file names, and won't delete unless the checkbox is checked so you can see if any important files would be deleted. (There is no option to selectively remove files from the list to be deleted).

SourceSafe bindings are plain text files ending in scc, either .scc or .vssscc, but the pattern matches any file with an extension ending in *scc. You can change the pattern match in the application config file (need to include the * for wildcard matches).

See also this article on Removing a Solution from SourceSafe by Les Smith.

9. Cleanup for VS 2003 Solutions

Publisher: Roy Dictus Category: .Net Pricing: Free

A handy little utility for developers to clean up their solution directories and files.
It can remove all links in project and solution files to source code control (Visual SourceSafe, SourceGear, Vault etc), clear the Visual Studio Web cache, delete bin and obj directories, delete debug and release direcories, and delete *.user files.

10. Remove Source Control Info

Publisher: Michael Carbenayx Category: .Net Pricing: Free Reviews:

A small tool to remove source control info from VisualStudio.NET 2003 solution and project files.
Use it only if you experience "Unspecified error" messages with the Change Source Control dialog. The recommended way is to use the Unbind button.

11. Source Control Provider Selector

Publisher: Cedar Kilic Category: .Net Pricing: Free Reviews: Alin Constantin

Source Control Provider Selector, or SCP Selector for short, is a small application that will allow you to change the default source control provider in VS.Net on your system.

This article by Korby Parnell discusses SCP Selector.

12. SccSwitcher

Publisher: Soenke Schau Category: .Net Pricing: Free Reviews: Alin Constantin

Sourcecode Control Switcher offers an interface to choose all installed SCC providers instead of just using the default provider in SCC integration. It has three purposes:
1. Give a visual clue to which SCC provider is currently active.
2. Provide an interface to change between SCC providers.
3. Start the UI of the current provider.

13. SourceSelector

Publisher: Tor Hovland Category: .Net Pricing: Free Reviews: Alin Constantin

Change the default SCC provider.

14. SccSwitch

Publisher: DevHawk Category: .Net Pricing: Free

Utility to switch the current Source Code Control (SCC) provider.

15. BuildIt.NET

Publisher: Sapient Corporation Category: .Net Builds Pricing: Free Code: SAR

BuildIt is a .NET console application that automates the build process outlined in the patterns & practices article Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe". It can be downloaded from here.

16. SourceSafe Power Toy : User Manager

Publisher: Microsoft Power Toys Category: .Net Administration Pricing: Free Code: SAR

A simple tool that allows importing and exporting list of users from one database to another. It also allows importing a user list from a Windows group.

17. BusyBeeBuilder

Publisher: GotDotNet Workspace Category: .Net Builds Pricing: Free Code: SAR

Provides a powerful, easy-to-use, and extensible .NET build automation tool. It's written with a pipeline architecture that operates plug-ins implementing a simple interface, so it's easy to add your own build steps OR use the several that ship with BusyBee.

Right now BusyBee can:
* copy, move, delete files and directories
* label/get from Visual SourceSafe
* build solution files with Visual Studio 2003
* run NUnit tests
* run FxCop
* email build results to the whole team (or any list of emails)
* archive builds to labeled folders.

18. VSS .net

Publisher: DMB Consulting LLC Category: Remote Access .Net Pricing: US$

Use Visual SourceSafe� over the Internet by implementing a Web Service on the server side and a dotNet WinForms client on the client side.

19. Hippo.NET

Publisher: x Category: Builds .Net Pricing: Free

Hippo.NET is a tool for streamlining the build process of .NET projects in a team environment. It provides continuous integration by monitoring the shared Visual SourceSafe database and starting the build process when changes are detected.
An important design goal is to provide a nice and easy-to-use user interface, to monitor builds and trigger the build process when needed.

Addins

1. Sourcesafe Plug-Ins for Visual Studio

Publisher: Microsofte Category: Addins Pricing: Free

Visual Sourcesafe LAN (ssscc.dll) provides basic source control functionality plus an optional LAN booster for improved performance.
SourceSafe Internet (RemoteVssScc.dll) supports database access via the internet.

2. SSUE

Publisher: Ten and Six Software Category: Addins Pricing: Free

Source Safe launch utility for IDM Solutions UltraEdit 32.

3. VSSDocuments

Publisher: Nick Bitounis Category: Addins Pricing: US$

VSSDocuments provides VSS integration with Windows Explorer. With a single click ANY type of document can be added, deleted, checked in to or out from a VSS database.

4. JDev VSS Extension

Publisher: SourceForge Category: Addins .Net Pricing: Free

Extension for JDeveloper providing support for both MS SourceSafe and SourceGear SourceOffSite.

5. SourceXplore

Publisher: EPocalipse Software Category: Addins Pricing: Free

SourceXplore is a shell extension which allows you to perform basic SourceSafe operations directly from windows explorer.
It is no longer supported but free.

6. Vim SourceSafe Integration

Publisher: Michael Geddes Category: Addins Pricing: Free

Interface to source-control for Vim.

7. Versioning Controlled Build

Publisher: Julijan Sribar Category: Addins Builds Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Visual Studio add-in providing a UI to modify AssemblyVersion and trigger build. The application is able to handle code under SourceSafe control.

8. Effective SourceSafe

Publisher: David Y. Zhao Category: Addins Pricing: Free

Shell extension to enable check in/out directly in Windows Explorer.

9. VSS Plugin For Eclipse IDE

Publisher: Marcus Nylander Category: Addins Pricing: Donation

A Team provider plug in for the Eclipse IDE. Enables VSS actions to be integrated with the Eclipse IDE release 2.1.

10. SourceSafe Addin For JBuilder

Publisher: David White Category: Addins Pricing: Free Codes: MLS

Provides easy access to Microsoft's Visual Source Safe version control system from within the JBuilder IDE.

Administration

1. ZDS Tools

Publisher: ZDS Corporation Category: Administration Pricing: Free

Command line tools for SourceSafe administrators.

2. SSService Test

Publisher: Alin Constantin Category: Administration Pricing: Free Reviews:

This is a sample program that tests the connection to the RPC service used by Visual SourceSafe 2005.
The program checks the access to the service by ping-ing it, and queries the status of a database file $/File.txt (possible values returned: 1 - file exists, 0 - does not exist, etc)
Source code is provided.

3. User Manager

Publisher: Microsoft Power Toys Category: .Net Administration Pricing: Free Code: SAR

A simple tool that allows importing and exporting list of users from one database to another. It also allows importing a user list from a Windows group.

4. VSSEMS

Publisher: Microsoft Category: Administration Pricing: Free

Migrate or copy a list of users and their rights assignments from an existing VSS database to another.

5. SourceSafe Addin

Publisher: Twaddle Software Category: Administration Pricing: Free

Prevents SourceSafe from checking files in when there isn't enough disk space left on the drive. Aids documentation for C/C++/IDL/ODL files by automatically adding/updating header information to the files if it is missing.

6. WorkingFolders

Publisher: Interface Technologies Inc Category: Administration Pricing: US$

WorkingFolders allows you to manage your working folder overrides, either locally for a single user, or project-wide for the entire team. WorkingFolders lets users see the current state of their SourceSafe working folder mappings. This includes defaults as well as any explicit overrides they have made. Users can then reset overrides if they wish.

7. SourceSafe Power Toy : User Manager

Publisher: Microsoft Power Toys Category: .Net Administration Pricing: Free Code: SAR

A simple tool that allows importing and exporting list of users from one database to another. It also allows importing a user list from a Windows group.

Alerts

1. SQL to Sourcesafe Scripter v2.0

Publisher: Serkan Subasi (SBS Software, Istanbul, Turkiye) Category: Alerts Database Reports Pricing: Free

The tool automatically generates SQL schema scripts for Microsoft SQL Server databases at pre-defined intervals, and archives them into Microsoft SourceSafe. Interested parties are notified by email of created, altered or dropped schema objects. Used as a collaboration tool it can keep developers aware of changes and allows for rollbacks to prior versions.

2. VssMon

Publisher: Ivan-Assen Ivanov Category: Alerts Pricing: Free

Sourcesafe Spy can monitor and send notifications for any SourceSafe repository that has journaling enabled.
It has three nice features:
* SMTP notification.
* Non intrusive popup.
* Minimizes to systemtray.

3. Sourcesafe Spy

Publisher: Ramon Smits Category: Alerts Pricing: Free

VSSMon is a tool which helps you monitor the changes happening to your Visual SourceSafe database
. It checks what's changed for the last N hours and builds an HTML report, complete with names of the users who edited the file and color-coded diffs.

4. VssAction

Publisher: Acorden Software Category: Alerts Pricing: Euros

VSSAction� monitors your Visual SourceSafe� (VSS) file activities, and sends reports to authorized recipients using email.
Reports can be customized for each recipient on which file, action to watch, and how often a report gets sent.
You can also define your own report format to fit your company policy and style.

5. VssRssSvc

Publisher: Greg Reinacker Category: Alerts RSS Pricing: Free

This very cool tool runs as a Windows service, and generates RSS feeds based on the change logs in VSS. It requires .NET 1.1. Build files are included for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

6. VMS

Publisher: Lewis Moten Category: Alerts Pricing: Free

Visual SourceSafe Journal Monitor Service.

7. FileWatch

Publisher: Interface Technologies Inc Category: Alerts Pricing: US$

FileWatch provides instant email notification based on SourceSafe activity. Emails are customizable by Sourcesafe database, Projects and Files, Users, and activity (check-ins, labels etc).

8. Code Co-op

Publisher: Reliable Software Category: Alerts Pricing: S/W

Code management and collaboration through Email, LAN, and VPN.

9. CheXpy

Publisher: TripleTee.com Category: Alerts Pricing: US$

Continually monitors a SourceSafe database and notify you of check-ins or check-outs.

10. SourceCompanion

Publisher: ISOVAR System Co Category: Alerts Pricing: US$

Monitors all changes in SourceSafe and sends real-time email notifications only to interested users.

11. SSMonitor

Publisher: Doug Schmidt Category: Alerts Pricing: Free

SSMonitor is a free Windows Scripting utility written to monitor the activity in a Visual SourceSafe journal file.
Various event pattern filters can be defined, and email messages can be sent to notify developers when these events occur.
Use SSMonitor to email summary reports of VSS activity every day, and to broadcast significant events (like file deletions or project build setting changes) to all developers.
SSMonitor is designed to be run in a console window on any machine with access to the SourceSafe journal file. No VSS automation component is used, and no VSS license is required. SSMonitor can be run as an NT service.

Analyze

1. Datawiz

Publisher: Microsoft Category: Analyze Pricing: Free Reviews: Korby Parnell

Datawiz is a beta level utility used to remove "orphan projects" and fix file pathing problems in Visual SourceSafe.
Datawiz can run against a live database.
It produces a report of errors in the datawiz log and a batch file to correct the errors fixdata.bat.

2. fixref

Publisher: Microsoft Category: Analyze Pricing: Free Reviews: Korby Parnell

A required companion program to Datawiz.

3. SSAnalyzer

Publisher: TSA Software Group; Category: Analyze Pricing: US$

As much as 20% of the typical SourceSafe repository may consist of duplicated or inappropriately branched files.

SSAnalyzer helps you reduce your software maintenance costs by as much as 10% by identifying problems you many not even know you have. The problems include:
* Duplicated files (evil twins)
* Inapproriately branch/rollback files
* Significant number of unpurge projects and files
* Orphan projects and files

4. ClientShutdown

Publisher: Interface Technologies Inc Category: Analyze Pricing: US$

ClientShutdown gives SourceSafe administrators the ability to shutdown SourceSafe clients without having to leave their desk.

This includes SourceSafe-enabled applications like Visual Studio and Allaire Homesite. This capability is extremely useful for SourceSafe administrators who need to perform periodic maintenance tasks such as running Analyze. Note that a SourceVizor Addin must be installed on each client machine where shutdown capability is needed.

5. VSS Repairer

Publisher: Configuration Management Services Category: Analyze Pricing: US$

Run analyze tool under scheduler. Logs errors to event log. Sends email on completion.

6. VssRecursivePurge

Publisher: Ax Tools Category: Analyze Pricing: Free

Search for all the logically deleted items in a Sourcesafe database and purge part or all of them.

7. Perl End-to-End Analyze Script

Publisher: Korby Parnell Category: Analyze Pricing: Free

Perl End-to-End Analyze Script for Keeping a VSS Database Healthy. The script:
1) Forcibly disconnects all users from a VSS database.
2) Locks the VSS database
3) Runs Analyze.exe

8. Visual Source Safe (VSS) Perl Scripts

Publisher: Robert Cowham Category: Analyze; Pricing: Free

vss_deleted_files.pl A script to print out a list of VSS files and directories which are marked as deleted. vss_illegal_filenames.pl Prints out VSS files that are "illegal" as far as Perforce is concerned (e.g. have @, #, *, % or unprintable chars in their name).
vss_linked_files.pl A script to print out a list of linked (shared or branched) files in a VSS repository.

Backups

1. Source Replicator

Publisher: Sourceware Category: Report Pricing: US$

SourceReplicator allows or more development teams to work concurrently on one or more SourceSafe databases and keeps them automatically synchronized.

Subscribers can be notified by email of events such as file checkins, checkouts or deletions. The administrator can create automatic notifications of replication errors.

SourceReplicator has a friendly web based interface allowing users to change their notification preferences, email addresses, and Sourcesafe passwords.

2. Backup Script for Visual SourceSafe

Publisher: Neokobe.nl Category: Backup Pricing: Free

Backup your visual sourcesafe (VSS) source code tree easy and reliable with this simple but effective batch script. Just schedule the script, edit the params to your needs and let it run. The output is written in seperate directories and best of all, it's easy to backup these files to either another machine or to tape using your own backup-software. No unreadable, strange VSS database to backup anymore. Just backup the real files!

3. Automated Source Safe Backups

Publisher: Conor Hunt Category: Backup Pricing: Free

Automates backup process so it occurs once a day. Generates backup files that are identified by date (ie. '08-20-2000 Project Backup.ssa').

Requires a scheduler. ZDS recommend 'ezScheduler' free from American Systems.

The alternative is to use the Scheduled Tasks applet in the windows control panel.

Books

1. Essential SourceSafe

Author: Ted Roche Larry Whipple Category: Books Pricing: US$

SourceSafe installation, configuration; Integration with Visual Studio and InterDev, Office; Administration and Troubleshooting.

2. Real World Software Configuration Management

Author: Sean Kenefick Category: Books Pricing: US$

Covers Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe 6.0c, and CVS with lots of practical examples and working code you can use right away.

3. Teach Yourself Visual Sourcesafe in 21 Days

Author: Michael Amundsen Category: Books Pricing: US$

Sams teach yourself.

Builds

1. ParaBuild

Publisher: ViewTier Systems Category: Builds Pricing: US$

ViewTier's flagship product is Parabuild 2.0, an automated build management server. The key focus is on simple installation and maintenance, automated builds to support continuous integration environments, and fast feedback on changes that break a build.

ViewTier also offer Devenv, a free command line utility to set Windows command shell, Unix and Cygwin sh or bash shell environments uniformly across software team members and development platforms.

2. FinalBuilder

Publisher: ATOZED software Category: Builds Pricing: US$ Reviews: Here

A gui based build automation tool for software developers with very tight integration with SourceSafe and many other third party tools. Pre-defined actions handle pretty well every common task.
Check out Vincent's Blog for the latest information.

3. BuildForge

Publisher: BuildForge Category: Builds Pricing: US$

Management layer on top of existing build scripts, batch files, etc. Supports concurrent (multi-threaded) processing and server pooling for distributed builds. Command line interface to SourceSafe and other vc systems. Datasheet here.

4. LuntBuild

Publisher: Alvin Shen Category: Builds Pricing: Free

An Open Source daily build and continuous integration tool. Performs automated builds by monitoring changes in the Sourcesafe repository, and can also manage history builds. Supports many other version control systems.

5. VssReporter

Publisher: AbstractSpoon Software Category: Builds Pricing: Free

VssReporter is a build engineer's tool for querying SourceSafe to find out what source files have been changed after, before or between certain dates.
Dates can be an explicit eg '02/08/2002' or implicit eg a label. It will allow you to query for modifications made by anyone, only yourself, or a named coder.

6. Change and Build Tracer

Publisher: Bob Mahon Category: Builds Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Correlate SourceSafe file versions with modifications and release builds for VC6 projects.

7. VB-Build

Publisher: vb-build.com Category: Builds Pricing: US$

Tool for compiling Visual Basic components. Integrated with SourceSafe.

8. NAnt

Publisher: Nant SourceForge Category: Builds Pricing: US$

NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.

The NAnt Task reference lists the tasks NAnt can perform against a SourceSafe database:

vssaddUsed to add files to a Visual SourceSafe database.
vsscheckin Used to checkin files into Visual Source Safe.
vsscheckoutTask used to checkout files from Visual Source Safe.
vssdelete Used to delete or Destroy files or projects in Visual Source Safe.
vssdiff Used to generate differences in a vss database.
vssget Used to retrieve an item or project from a Visual Source Safe database.
vsshistory Generates an XML file showing all changes made to a Visual Source Safe database
vsslabel Used to apply a label to a Visual Source Safe item.
vssundocheckout Task is used to undo a checkout from SourceSafe.

9. Apache Ant Vss Package

Publisher: apache.org Category: Builds Pricing: S-W

Framework to support vss functionality as well as some Ant tasks encapsulating frequently used vss commands.

10. BuildIt.NET

Publisher: Sapient Corporation Category: .Net Builds Pricing: Free Code: SAR

11. BusyBeeBuilder

Publisher: GotDotNet Workspace Category: .Net Builds Pricing: Free Code: SAR

12. Visual Build Pro

Publisher: Kinook Software Category: Builds Pricing: US$

Automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software.

13. Virtual Source Code Control System

Publisher: Ken Ramirez Category: User Pricing: Free Code: SAR

Custom source code control system built using automation supports: building, labeling, and promoting and reversing promotions for projects.

14. Versioning Controlled Build

Publisher: Julijan Sribar Category: Addins Builds Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Visual Studio add-in providing a UI to modify AssemblyVersion and trigger build. The application is able to handle code under SourceSafe control.

15. Hippo.NET

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Conversion

1. sourcesafe2subversion

Publisher: Kirit & Tai Saelensminde Category: Conversion Pricing: Free

The Sourcesafe2subversion tool will take a complete SourceSafe repository and replay the events into a Subversion repository.
Unlike the earlier tools this one attempts to preserve knowledge about the common ancestry of files by replaying SourceSafe share and branch instructions whenever possible.
There is a complete description at this link<.a>

2. VSSConverter GUI

Publisher: Eyal Category: Conversion Pricing: Free

A GUI frontend to the Microsoft VSSConverter SourceSafe to Team System command line utility.

3. Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Perl Migration Script

Publisher: brett@riseup.com">Brett Wooldridge Category: Conversion Pricing: Free

migrate.pl : Perl script for Sourcesafe to SubVersion migration.

4. vss2svn

Publisher: Tigris Category: Conversion Pricing: Free

Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Converter.

CVS

1. CVS SCC Proxy

Publisher: PushOk Category: CVS Pricing: US$

This SCC API plug-in provides access from practically all Microsoft SCC enabled software to general CVS repositories. The Microsoft SCC API is supported by: MS VC 5.0-7.0, MS VB 5.0-7.0, MS .NET, MS FrontPage, MS DEV and other Microsoft development tools. With the support of 3rd party tools this plug-in can be used by Borland IDE's.

Database

1. SQL to Sourcesafe Scripter v2.0

Publisher: Serkan Subasi (SBS Software, Istanbul, Turkiye) Category: Alerts Database Reports Pricing: Free

2. SQL ScriptSafe

Publisher: SQL ScriptSafe Category: Database Pricing: US$

SQL Server database script versioning tool.

3. Speed SQL IDE

Publisher: Imceda Software Category: Database Pricing: US$

Integrated development environment (IDE) for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or 7.

4. DB Script Safe for SQL Server

Publisher: Sriram Chitturi Category: Database Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Script and store SQL Server Objects in SourceSafe using SQL DMO and Visual SourceSafe automation.
Customizable code that you can use to track changes to tables, procedures etc in your SQL Server databases.

5. SQL Source Control 2003

Publisher: Skilled Software Category: Database Pricing: US$ Reviews: Hurcane

Versioned SQL Server documentation (tables, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, SQL scripts).

6. SQL SourceSafe

Publisher: Best SoftTool Category: Database Pricing: US$

Manages SQL script source code and executes SQL objects and scripts. Integrates with SQL Server Visual SourceSafe.

7. Source Guard

Publisher: Teratrax Category: Database Pricing: US$

A stored procedure, trigger, and view editor natively integrated with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

8. Stored Procedure Versioning

Publisher: Fabrice's Weblog Category: Database Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Stored procedure versioning with SQL Server and Visual SourceSafe : A quick summary of the steps to add Stored Procedures to the .NET IDE.

9. ScriptRunner 1.1.1382

Publisher: L&C Enterprises Category: Database Pricing: US$

Script Runner is an application that executes files against a database. The capabilities of the application include:

Continuous directory monitoring for files to execute.
Manual execution of a file or directory of files.
Manual execution of a file or a project from a SourceSafe database.
File execution report. Measuring file execution duration.
Ability to execute multiple files at a time.
Ability to execute files against multiple servers and/or databases at once.

Be aware that the publisher's site is no longer on-line and the product is apparently no longer supported.
Scriptrunner can still be downloaded from several software sites including Download.com.

Delphi

1. VssConneXion

Publisher: EPocalipse Software Category: Delphi Pricing: US$ Reviews: Andrew Ghinaudo

VssConneXion provides a Delphi and C++Builder IDE integration for Visual SourceSafe.

1. ZylVSS

Publisher: XylSoft Category: Delphi Pricing: S-W

Delphi C++Builder component allows embedding version control features in Delphi or C++Builder projects.

Development

1. VssSync

Publisher: Christian Ernst Rysgaard Category: Development Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Visual Basic application that automatically synchronizes a directory tree with a Visual SourceSafe project tree.

2. SSBrowser

Publisher: Ferdie Category: Development Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

A sample VC++ program for performing Visual SourceSafe operations in your application.

3. VSS Protocol Handler

Publisher: Victor VogelPoel Category: Development Pricing: Free Codes: SAR

Uses VSS Automation to open a document in a Visual SourceSafe database with one mouse click.

FoxPro

1. PARSEPHY.PRG

Publisher: Ted Roche Category: FoxPro Pricing: Free

Parse the physical file list to get file sizes by project group.

2. VSS Boost

Publisher: Markus Egger Category: FoxPro Pricing: Free

SourceSafe Boost is an Visual FoxPro utility that checks for all files that are handled by SourceSafe, in a given directory and all the subdirectories. If such a file is found (that is checked out too), the text file is updated. The advantage of SourceSafe Boost is that this process is extremly quick. Even if there are a number of files checked out, it usually only takes a couple of seconds to update.

Merge

1. Winmerge 2.0.2

Publisher: SourceForge Winmerge Category: Merge Pricing: Free

Visual text file differencing and merging tool.

2. Diff Analyzer

Publisher: Sytel Category: Merge Pricing: Free

Analyzes the differences between any two SourceSafe folders.

3. Merge For Windows

Publisher: Araxis Category: Merge Pricing: US$ Codes: MLS

The Merge plugin for Visual SourceSafe enables Merge to access files located within a Visual SourceSafe database.

Remote Access

1. Sourcesafe Internet Plug-In for Visual Studio

Publisher: Microsofte Category: Addins Pricing: Free

RemoteVssScc.dll supports database access via the internet.

2. Source AnyWhere for VSS ( v5.2 Sep 27, 2007 )

Publisher: Dynamsoft Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$

A SourceSafe remote/internet access tool. It enables you to use Visual SourceSafe easily over the Internet. With SourceAnyWhere, you can perform most SourceSafe operations from any remote location using standard TCP/IP access.

This article by Amy Gu, Dynamsoft Corporation, discusses the issues that arise when using SourceSafe remotely over the internet.

3. Census

Publisher: MetaQuest Software Inc Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$

Web-based tool for tracking and managing issues such as bugs, defects, support calls, and weekly timesheets. Issues can be linked to corresponding source objects in Visual SourceSafe databases, and version control operations executed. Because Census is Web-based it provides cross-platform, Internet access to Visual SourceSafe databases.

4. SCCBridge

Publisher: Arthur Nesterovsky Category: Remote Access Pricing: Free

Freeware project that implements remote access to version control systems (including SourceSafe) via web service. See also their main page and this link.

5. SourceXT

Publisher: Acorden Software Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$

With SourceXT, dispersed project teams can access your SourceSafe files from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an Internet connection.

SourceXT is based on Microsoft .NET technology. It has a Server and a Client portion.
The Server controls access to SourceSafe databases by living on the same LAN as the VSS computers. To the Internet world, the Server functions as a Web Service that provides and receives data to and from its Clients.
The Client portion is a user friendly Windows application that works like a file explorer.

6. SourceOffSite

Publisher: SourceGear Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$

SourceOffSite is specifically designed for companies with cross-site or cross-platform development teams that need fast and secure read/write access to a centralized SourceSafe database via TCP/IP connection. Version 4.2 features.

* IDE integration (Visual Studio 2005, VS.NET 2003, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++, Visual J++).
* GUI and command-line clients.
* Optional 128-bit data encryption and data compression.
* Supports all major SourceSafe 6.0 and 7.0 (VSS 2005) operations.
* Integration with Dragnet, a web-based bug-tracking system.
* Client: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP, Mac OS X, Solaris 5.1 (2.5.1) or later and Linux 2.4 and later.
* Server: Windows 2000/2003/XP.

7. Help

Publisher: Neil C. Obremski Category: Remote Access Pricing: Free

How to get remote access to a VSS database over the internet.

8. Vss Remoting

Publisher: Source Remoting Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$ (Free for one user)

VSS Remoting is a client/server based remote SourceSafe database accessing software. Using VSS Remoting, you can access your SourceSafe databases through any internet connections in a fast and secure way.
Plugins provide seamless integration with Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver and Flash IDE.

9. VssConnect

Publisher: VoxCode Software Category: Remote Access Pricing: US$ Reviews: Review by Aaron Junod

Since SourceSafe is designed around Windows network file sharing, rather than a client/server architecture, remote access can be painfully slow on low bandwidth connections and the possibility for database corruption is high.
VssConnect was designed to overcome these shortcomings, providing a low cost solution to remote SourceSafe access.
VssConnect consists of an easy to install and manage server component and remote clients which communicate with the server using a standard TCP protocol.
Multiple checkouts are supported.

10. VSS .net

Publisher: DMB Consulting LLC Category: Remote Access .NET Pricing: US$

Use Visual SourceSafe� over the Internet by implementing a Web Service on the server side and a dotNet WinForms client on the client side.

Report

1. SourceSafe Reporter

Publisher: Inspire Holdings Category: Report Pricing: Euros

SourceSafe Reporter is a flexible reporting tool for extracting the wide range of information currently locked in your Microsoft Visual SourceSafe� databases.

Quickly and effectively report on projects, files, versions, permissions, checkouts and users. - List all the projects and files in a SourceSafe database.
- List of files with detailed version information, filtered by date range or by label.
- Report on the Project Permissions that users have in a SourceSafe Database.
- Report on every file that is currently checked out of a SourceSafe database.
- Report on all user login accounts for a SourceSafe Database.

SourceSafe Reporter requires the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe client tools to be installed before it can be run.

2. VSS Manager

Publisher: CodeMiner Category: Report Pricing: Euros

CodeMiner VSS Manager is a comprehensive repository monitoring and reporting tool for managing change sets in VSS (Visual Source Safe). This web-based software helps Product Manager monitor changes and project development.

With VSS Manager, you can get answer for critical questions about your repository, such as:
* Is my project converging?
* How has my project progressed over time?
* What critical files had been added in the last few hours?

3. VSS Data Export

Publisher: Alexander Zammit Category: Report Pricing: Free

Extracts all the file and project information from MS Visual SourceSafe to an SQL server or Access database. Uses include usage management, extraction of source history for record keeping..

4. SourceReports

Publisher: Interface Technologies Inc Category: Report Pricing: US$

SourceReports provides visibility into the growth and activity of your project.
SourceSafe activity is stored in a separate DBMS. Report generation is fast and does not bog down SourceSafe for other users.
Over 30 different report types include project growth, project activity, and developer activity.

5. CodeReports

Publisher: SmartBear Software Category: Report Pricing: US$

Project, file, author, date analyses, trends over time.

6. Source Reporter

Publisher: Sourceware Category: Report Pricing: US$

Reports can be exported in XML, comma delimited format, or to the database of your choice. Selection is from a project tree view. New reports include productivity and users lists.

7. Schiott_SourceReport

Publisher: The Code Project Category: Report Pricing: Free

Tool for extracting comments from a SourceSafe database.

8. VSS Loader

Publisher: XKEE.com Category: Report Pricing: US$

Generate reports by exporting archive history from SourceSafe into a MS Access database.

Review

1. CodeReviewer

Publisher: SmartBear Software Category: Review Pricing: US$

Peer code review tool with support for multiple remote reviewers, automated audit trails, SCM integration, and custom reviewer checklists.
View Historical Differences Side-by-Side. Complete File Analyses. Multi-File Search.

2. CodeHistorian

Publisher: SmartBear Software Category: Review Pricing: US$

File differencing, code analysis, multi-file search and data export.

RSS

1. Watching changes via RSS feeds from VSS or VSTS
Publisher: Jonathan Hodgson Category: RSS Pricing: Free
Jonathan Hodgson discusses code that 'allows me to see what, when and who has changed files recently'. It runs every 30 minutes and generates an XML file saved on a webserver with RSS items for new checkins on a specified VSS branch. It works using the Visual SourceSafe COM object via get_VSSItem and get_Versions recusively. The code is not posted with the article.
	2. VssRssSvc
Publisher: Greg Reinacker Category: .NET RSS Alerts Pricing: Free
This very cool tool runs as a Windows service, and generates RSS feeds based on the change logs in VSS. It requires .NET 1.1, and build files are included for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

3. Greg Reinacker's weblog
Publisher: Greg Reinacker Category: Alerts RSS Pricing: Free
RSS feed generated from Visual SourceSafe for source changes.