Source Control in Visual Studio Tools for Applications

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications to edit my InfoPath forms.  I just realized I don't have a plug-in installed for Visual Source Safe.  I have VSS installed on the machine, but under Plug-in I don't see it.  How can I check in my code?

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Answer 1

Hi Tomasz,

Did you check at Tools->Options->Source Control?

If you check the right place and SourceSafe is not available, you may try reinstalling SourceSafe.

Thanks,

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Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution

Answer 2

Hi Tomasz,

Also, if you don't want to re-install VSS, you can register the dll files in the VSS installation folder using regsvr32 to enable VSS Visual Studio Plug-in.

Note: VS Express do not support SCC integration.

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Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution

Answer 3

I thought it worked.  When I open up VS on the machine I see the Source Safe plug-in, but when I open up the InfoPath form, then from the go to Tools, Programming and Microsoft Visual Studio for Application , VS 2005 for Application opens up and the plug in is not there.  Do you have any other suggestions?

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There is 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't.

Answer 4

but when I open up the InfoPath form, then from the go to Tools, Programming and Microsoft Visual Studio for Application , VS 2005 for Application opens up and the plug in is not there.  

I don't quite understand this.

To add a project to the source control of SourceSafe, you just need to go to Tools->Options->Source Control and select SourceSafe as the current source control plug-in. And then in the Solution Explorer, right-click the solution file and click Add Solution to Source Control. After that, you can check out/check in your files.

Thanks,

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Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution

Answer 5

Catherine, don't get me wrong, I do know how to use Source Control.  This is my exact situation.  I have a Windows Server 2003 machine running as my development environment for SharePoint.  On it I have Visual Studio 2005, Source Control and InforPath installed.  If I open up Visual Studio 2005 directly I see the Source Control plug-in and I can use it normally.  The problem arises when I try to edit an InfoPath form.  Once the form opens and I want to edit the code behind, Visual Studio for Applications 2005 opens up.  I can edit and save my code, but I can't check it in.  I have a Source Control under Tools -> Options, but the plug-in selector is empty.  I can't figure this out.  I even tried closing InfoPath and going directly to the code from Visual Studio 2005, but at that point I get a message that the code is not in readable format for VS 2005, seems like only Visual Studio for Applications will open it.  I hope this clarifies my problems.  Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

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There is 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't.

Answer 6

Thanks for the explanation, Tomasz.

You may take a look at the following thread to see if it helps:

http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/p/10944/40126.aspx#40126

Thanks,

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Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | Software Configuration Management Solution