PRB: Connection Information Is Broken After You Check In Without Saving the Solution File in Visual SourceSafe 6.0a/b (317957)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows 6.0, when used with:
    • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Professional Edition
    • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Architect Edition
    • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Developer Edition
    • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Academic Edition
This article was previously published under Q317957

SYMPTOMS

If you use Visual SourceSafe version 6.0a/b integration with Visual Studio .NET, your connection may break if the solution file is not added to Source Code Control (SCC).

NOTE: This behavior does not occur when you use Visual SourceSafe version 6.0c. If you use Visual SourceSafe 6.0a/b, you can upgrade to version 6.0c by downloading Service Pack 6 for Visual SourceSafe. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

321139 INFO: List of Bugs Fixed in Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Service Pack 6

CAUSE

SourceSafe 6.0a/b does not recognize the Visual Studio .NET extensions for source control. As a result, SourceSafe writes the connection information to the solution file (which is not under source control), instead of writing the connection information to the Visual Studio .NET extensions.

RESOLUTION

Change source control to unbind and then rebind to the original location. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. On the File menu, click Source Control, and then click Change Source Control.
  2. When you receive a prompt, save the solution. The Change Source Control dialog box appears.
  3. Unbind and then rebind to the original location. The following dialog box appears:
    Some projects have been bound to server locations that may be incorrect. A location may be incorrect either because it does not contain the majority of the projects' files or because those files are not in the correct location relative to the specified server folder. You should probably fix all the bindings in the solution. However, you may continue and bind these projects to the specified locations even when some may to be incorrect.
  4. Click Continue with these bindings, and then ensure that you save the solution when you check in the project (on the File menu, click Save all).

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create two Visual SourceSafe users: set one without project extensions, and set the other with normal project extensions.

    To clear the project extensions, follow these steps:
    1. Open the SourceSafe explorer as the user for which you want to clear the extensions.
    2. On the Tools menu, click Options, click File Types, and then delete the file extensions that appear in the Create SCC file box.
    3. Close the explorer.
  2. Create a solution that contains a project.
  3. Add the project only to source control as a selection: on the File menu, click Source Control, click Add selected projects to Source Control, and ensure that you are using the SourceSafe user that has SCC project extensions.
  4. Close the shell, and then save the solution when you are prompted.
  5. Start Visual Studio .NET.
  6. On the File menu, click Source Control, and then click Open from Source Control. Ensure that you use the user without SCC project file extensions, and that you open the project to a new location.

    You receive the following error message:
    The binding information for project WindowsApplication1 could not be retrieved from its source control provider. This project may have been placed under source control with a different provider configuration from the current one.

    To keep source control working for this project, Visual Studio will now check out the project file so that the binding information can be saved in it. However, if the check out fails and the project is closed without saving, the next time it is opened, it will appear to no longer be under source control.
  7. Click OK, and then click Check out.
  8. Check in the project.

    The project now seems to be checked in and corrected, and you may think that the connection information has been saved to the project file. In reality, the connection information was written to the solution file and it may be lost if you do not save the solution file.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:5/26/2005
Keywords:kbprb KB317957
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