KB951948: VSS 2005: 'Your source control plug-in caused an exception or reported a fatal error

Question

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VSS 2005: 'Your source control plug-in caused an exception or reported a fatal error

Action

You attempt to add a solution to source control or open a solution that is under source control with the Visual SourceSafe Internet Plug-in. The solution can either be local or accessed over the Internet.

Result

You receive the following error:

Your source control plug-in caused an exception or reported a fatal error.
Source control integration will be disabled until Microsoft Visual Studio is restarted or you change your source control plug-in selection.

Answer 1

Cause

You have a VSS user name in Login ID (SourceSafe) text box of the Plug-In Settings dialog in Visual Studio that is longer than 31 characters.

Resolution

Change your VSS username to a value less than 31 characters.

These steps reproduce the problem:

1. Start Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.
2. Go to Tools|Options|SourceControl|Plug-in Settings, type a username that is longer than 31 characters in the Login ID (SourceSafe) text box. For example type:

domainThisisaveryverylongtestuse

Note that the control allows the long user name.
3. Create an empty solution and save it.
4. Try to add the solution  to source control.

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