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Reputation: 621

Removing SourceSafe Integration from Visual Studio 2008

A question was asked recently about removing SourceSafe integration from Visual Studio 6. I need to do the same with Visual Studio 2008.

Our team uses Subversion and I have installed AnkhSVN, the Subversion plug-in for VS2008 (some other members of the team use VisualSVN). I find that SourceSafe "insists" on being the integrated source control tool of choice - the setting for source control plug-in in Tools > Options > Source Control seems to reset itself every time VS2008 is closed. This is very annoying and I want to get rid of SourceSafe.

I tried running the VS2008 install with the intention of switching off (effectively uninstalling) the SourceSafe plug-in, but there is no option for it.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 6952

Answers (5)

ggo
ggo

Reputation: 471

There are several constraints/behaviors for my case:

1) The machine and the projects are shared by several developers and they should not be affected by my changes,

2) vs2008 automatically re-enables SourceSafe control (did not try the HideInVisualStudio registry solution because it's a global flag),

3) I can't remove the bindings in the projects nor un-install SourceSafe

So I have found a way which is not perfect but works good enough for me:

1) open regedit and go to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe

there should be an entry 

SCCServerPath

which should contain something like this: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ssscc.dll

2) Modify the permissions for ssscc.dll in order to DENY the "Read and Execute" access for your userid.

Now, this is not perfect because you will have sometimes an error message message when you load a solution in VS2008 (There was a failure while initializing the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe source control provider. You cannot use this provider to perform source control operations.), but the goal is achieved:

1) No more source safe integration in VS2008,

2) Source Safe standalone is still working,

3) Other users are not affected by the modification.

Upvotes: 0

Darcy Casselman
Darcy Casselman

Reputation: 2644

Visual Studio stores source control preferences in the solution and project files. To switch providers, you have to first "unbind" the old provider.

  • Select File > Source Control > Change Source Control, select the solution and all the project files, and click "Unbind."
  • Save the solution.
  • Then you can change the provider with Tools > Options > Source Control.

Hand-editing the .sln and .proj files also works, but it's not exactly recommended.

Upvotes: 8

Magentus
Magentus

Reputation: 621

Found it! MS's Help and Support site describes it, see section 2

Add a DWORD registry key at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe\HideInVisualStudio

Set it to 1. Restart VS2008 and the SourceSafe plug-in option is gone.

Upvotes: 5

to StackOverflow
to StackOverflow

Reputation: 124696

Not sure if this works, but you can try:

  • Tools/Options/Source Control: set Current Source Control plug-in to "None"
  • Open the solution - hopefully it will tell you the provider is missing and give you an option to remove the bindings.

Upvotes: 0

Nick Berardi
Nick Berardi

Reputation: 54854

You can usually edit the *.sln file and *.??proj file with out an problems to remove these bindings. These two files are just text files so you can open them in Notepad, Wordpad, or Visual Studio.

Just remove stuff slowly and then save and try to load.

Upvotes: 0

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