How to open visual source safe projects in visual studio 2010

Question

Guys please help me. My boss gave me projects that I have to modify. The projects are in visual source safe 2005.

The projects are surpose to be in one solution because they share some namespaces. When I open visual studio and add the projects, there is an error message that says "The type or namespace <namespace name> could not be found (are you missing a using directive or assemblty reference?)".

The references have been added to the projects. For instance one project has a reference to another project.

I will appreciate any help.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You should install the below update for VS 2010 to make it support the VSS 2005, then you could change the source control plug-in in VS 2010 to VSS 2005. http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB976375

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Bob Bao [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi Mramba,

After you install the update, you can follow the steps below to open the solution in VSS 2005 in VS:

1. In VS, go to Tools->Options->Source Control and choose VSS as the current SCC provider.

2. Click File->Open Project/Solution, select VSS in the left panel of Open Project dialog and choose the VSS DB to connect to.

Let me know how it goes.

Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | TFS Hosting Service

Answer 3

Thank you so much for your help. It worked.

Answer 4

Glad to hear it works. :)

Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | TFS Hosting Service