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Enumerating the # and names of files in a VSS folder
A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem: "You can use VSS Automation to find Read More...
Posted 13 October 05 12:55 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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New SourceSafe Utility: DATAWIZ
Here's a little internal Microsoft dirt: I'm the person behind the scenes who reviews and approves or rejects all gotdotnet User Samples submissions. For the record, this will not always be my job (things change) but for now, I actually look forward to Read More...
Posted 10 August 05 12:08 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor Read More...
Posted 21 February 05 11:56 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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VSS vs. Team Foundation Version Control | Checkout Behavior
"Unexpected Get" was the subject of a very interesting email thread that passed through my Outlook Inbox today. I mentioned the issue it raises in a previous post: Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Checking Out . Basically, VSS and Team Foundation perform Read More...
Posted 04 November 04 04:54 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Cloaking
Klingons and Romulans everywhere will bristle with pride when they learn that cloaking has survived the conceptual port from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation. Cloaking is a vital feature in VSS as it speeds up expensive Get operations and conserves Read More...
Posted 25 October 04 10:55 by KorbyP | 13 Comments   
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Jason Mauss’ VSS Tips & Tricks
This deserves more than a trackback: Jason Mauss' VSS Tips and Tricks Read More...
Posted 03 September 04 03:38 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Pin: the “Share my greatest, not my latest” Feature in VSS
If you code like me, your latest version of a file or project is almost never your greatest. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mark a version of a file or changeset as “use this one!” so that your teammates would stop bugging you Read More...
Posted 21 May 04 01:17 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
Posted 20 May 04 05:55 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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RSS for Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Articles
In a recent email exchange between me, my dev lead, PM, and one of the developers on the SourceSafe team, I suggested that a KB article would be the most appropriate documentation delivery channel for a minor technical issue we were discussing. Since Read More...
Posted 11 March 04 09:58 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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How To: Deploy VSS Project Files Selectively
A reader emailed me this request for more infomation yesterday, “We keep several types of web projects in VSS, some apps from VStudio, some from dreamweaver, etc. As it stands now, both the shadow folder and deploy contain *all* the files. I'd like Read More...
Posted 04 March 04 09:54 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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