Hello Team, I am trying to migrate Visual Source safe to TFS 2010 using VSS upgrade Wizard tool. Upgrade wizards works fine till configuration wondows, but when i click on Upgrade button in the last screen of Wizard it just goes to sleep mode with message 'Sleep for 3232 second(s) and retry. Need your help in understanding whether 'Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0' is compatible to use on windows 7 64bit OS.If not,what is the alternative product to be chosen in place of 'Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0'. Also could you provide me the URL's from where i can find the details and required for internal audit purpose. The best way to remove a stand-alone installation of Visual SourceSafe 6.0 is to use the Add/Remove Programs tool in Control Panel. This will remove most of the Visual SourceSafe components from your computer as well as all the registry entries created during installation.
As you all know, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0(VSS 6.0) was first shipped in 1998. Although there are 4 versions from 6.0a to 6.0d, it had been about 7 year before the next version VSS 2005(VSS 8.0) was released. You may be curious on how many things have been changed in this big step. Here, I listed some major ones.
1.Internet Access
The most obvious and vital change might be the Internet Access. This feature enables you to connect to VSS database when you’re outside your office. It’s normally much faster that connecting through VPN. VSS 2005 can expose web service to perform most of the work we do in the LAN. In the 6.0 version, we can only achieve this by using some 3rd party tools like SourceOffSite from SourceGear.
Since it is a web service, it requires that you have IIS installed on your machine. Here is an MSDN article about detailed steps of how to setup this web service.
In Visual Studio 2005, you can specify the source control provider from Tools/Options dialog in the main menu.
However, in VS.NET 2003 and older versions, there is no integrated way for us to set the active provider. We have to do this by manually registering the source control provider .dll file: regsvr32.exe RemoteVsScc.dll or you can use some 3rd party tools like Scc Switcher.
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/sccswitcher.asp
Of course, manually modifying the registry key will be another option. Here is a KB article with detailed steps to do this.
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Another improvement is called LAN Booster Service. Legend of korra download ep 11.
After enabling it with the steps shown in the above link, a new service SSService.exe will be running under the LocalSystem account on the server machine. This service compresses all the files that are going to be transferred through the network on the wire, which will improve performance at about 3-5 times. However, from name of it, we can know that this service is only available for LAN provider. (NOT for internet provider)
3.Better Visual Studio Integration.
Workshop manual seat altea. Now VSS 2005 has better integration with Visual Studio. An obvious example is that users don’t need to select “Open From Source Control” to open solutions from VSS database. This function has been put into the Open Project/Solution dialog.
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4.Migration Tools Needed?
The database format is not changed from VSS 6.0 to VSS 2005. So no migration tool is needed for you to upgrade databases. You can simply copy them to the new server.
5.Asynchronously File Retrieval
When you get files in VS.NET IDE, there will be a dialog box popped up, indicating that files will be retrieved from server asynchronously. This means if you have a large solution/project, you can start working when some of the files have been retrieved. And file transfer from server will not block your IDE.
6.Programming Interfaces(Automation)
Like previous versions, VSS 2005 has a complete set of interfaces (known as SCC API) developed for us to program on it. It also has been ported to interop assemblies for .NET development.
Furthermore, the Visual Studio SCC API forward with a new 1.3 version. 1.3 includes all existing 1.1 and 1.2 methods plus some new methods to help support asynchronous Open from Source Control and propagation of Renames and Deletes from Visual Studio.
7.No Longer Supports SQL Server Objects Versioning
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Unfortunately the earlier support in VS.NET 2003 for versioning SQL server objects will no longer be supported in VS 2005. However, we can find some workaround like saving the script (.sql) files in VSS, since all SQL Server creations and modifications can be translated to SQL scripts.
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Here I just listed some most important changes. If you have other stuff that is not included here, welcome for your comments.
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