The associated source control plug-in is not installed or could not be intiialized

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i installed visual sourcesafe but i cannot connect it with visual sourcesafe....

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Posted 2-Aug-13 23:23pm

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[no name] 3-Aug-13 6:17am

"i installed visual sourcesafe"... did you install the VSS client software>?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-08-03T17:28:00

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Listen to a good friendly advice: never ever use Microsoft VSS. Not only it is obsolete, it used some bad misconceptions in first place. One important fallacy is: it is not transactional. Also, it is bloated and proprietary. Moreover, I know some people who really badly suffered from VSS malfunction.

Please see this discussion: Revision control systems, which to choose from?[^].

See also my past answers:
Needs some words of wisedom to set up and/or use a server[^],
Make an unclickable form[^],
How can i structured to arrange sources code when i create a new solution[^],
Reviews at Apache Subversion[^].

I don't say that I specifically advertize Subversion or something in particular. But pay attention for my motivation of requirements for a Revision Control system and the value of open-source solution in this particular field.

I would also add: if you are not using some Revision Control System, you are not really doing programming. Your valuable code asserts not belong not to you, but to every software or hardware failure and every your mess-up. You need to stop doing what you are doing and start working with some good Revision Control System as soon as possible.

—SA

Posted 3-Aug-13 17:28pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Ron Beyer 3-Aug-13 23:37pm

+5, I will say that once I started using TFS religiously I find myself writing better code and being able to really mess things up chasing bugs and not worry about being able to go back to where I was. For TFS I use VisualStudio.com which is free and very full featured. If you are doing open source, I would suggest CodePlex or SourceForge.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Aug-13 23:42pm

Thank you, Ron.
Good points, with one note: CodePlex and SourceForge are not Revision Control Systems (they only use some internally) and don't help to solve problems Revision Control Systems do.
—SA

Ron Beyer 3-Aug-13 23:46pm

As I understand it (I have 2 projects hosted there, EIPNET and ControlLogixNET), CodePlex is a highly modified version of TFS, I can do check ins, roll backs, branches, etc. I haven't used SourceForge but I think CodePlex fits the bill as a VCS...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Aug-13 23:51pm

I didn't know that. The point is different: you cannot really use CodePlex as the Revision Control System: you cannot do you personal/private non-published development, you cannot do proprietary development, you cannot use in-house service, you cannot use decentralized approach like in modern Revision Control Systems, you cannot chose alternative storage system, you cannot work without internet. And I'm not sure if you can move all the history from CodePlex to independent system... A lot of things you cannot do.
—SA

Ron Beyer 3-Aug-13 23:53pm

Yes, very true, but I did say if you are doing open source :) I prefer my VCS to be globally accessible, mostly because I travel a lot and its nice not to be responsible for server/network maintenance. You need to evaluate what you need for your situation and pick responsibly.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Aug-13 23:58pm

Right them.
As to the global access: it's a separate aspect. Global access does not mean open-source. I, for example, developed a proprietary company site for team development, because the team was international. Or course it used Revision Control System, integrated issue tracking system + Wiki. (Unfortunately, that company has gone.)
—SA

Rachel Jia · Answer 2 · 2013-09-16T20:11:00

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Try registering VSS API manually. Go to VSS installation folder with SSAPI.DLL and perform "regsvr32 SSAPI.DLL" in command line. If this does not work, please try reinstalling VSS.

Posted 16-Sep-13 20:11pm

Rachel Jia