Shannon Braun's Weblog

Visual Source Safe (VSS) can be a little frustrating when you are trying to add projects through the Visual Studio IDE.  You think it is creating it in one place and it ends up in another…

 

A tool that I have found to be pretty helpful is Effective Source Safe.  It is a shell extension that allows you to add files to source safe, exactly how you have them on the file system.

 

This allows you to create the projects where you want in your folder structure and then add them through the shell extension provided by ESS.  After you add them to VSS you can open the Visual Studio IDE and bind them to the VSS project folder you want.

 

Be aware, it does have some quirks.

 

You can get ESS at Code Project. 

 

Also if you want to get updates from VSS everytime someone makes changes to the code base, but don't want e-mails filling your InBox, take a look at VSS to RSS.  It includes source now so you can modify it.