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Introduction
With the yet to be released SourceSafe 2005, we decided to switch back to a SourceSafe database for some of our projects instead of a CVS repository. And saying that it have been quite a pain is not even beginning to come close to reality. Source-Code integration in VS.NET is not a nightmare, but you have to change your project files and delete a few other files to get rid of it. Failing to do so may get you in real trouble when rebinding to another SCC provider.
This "article" (OK, it may not be a great one, but that's my first one for Code Project) summarizes what I have found while building this tool, either by myself or on blogs and newsgroups.
Using the code
I decided to write this small tool to help getting rid of everything that is related to source-code control. It's quite straightforward to use: just enter the path to your project or solution file and click Continue, and it should work.
For now, there are (quite) a few limitations:
- It does not handle Web Projects (I'll do it as soon as I can)
- Only .csproj and .vbproj and deployment project (.vdproj) files are supported, and having any other type of project will block you from using this tool.
- It doesn't change the Read-Only status of files that are not .sln, .csproj or .vbproj.
Points of Interest
Visual Studio keeps its SCC information in quite a few places. And if you want to get clean, you'll have to get rid of all of them.
The Solution File (.sln)
The solution file contains a section that is dedicated to SCC. If you open the .sln file in a text editor, you'll have something that looks like : Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 8.00
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "MyProject",
"Projects\MyProject.csproj", "{B1A1C06F-EB84-4215-975E-6B0B57496BAC}"
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
EndProjectSection
EndProject
... other projects in your solution ...
Global
GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) = preSolution
SccNumberOfProjects = 1
SccProjectName0 = Perforce\u0020Project
SccLocalPath0 = .
SccProvider0 = MSSCCI:Perforce\u0020SCM
CanCheckoutShared = true
SolutionUniqueID = {0F9ACC79-634F-44DB-9C57-C4B0C461AA7B}
SccProjectUniqueName1 = Projects\\MyProject.csproj
SccLocalPath1 = MyProject
EndGlobalSection
... other global sections ...
EndGlobal
Just delete the GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) ... EndGlobalSection and save the file.
The Solution User Options File (.suo)
I didn't find any real good solution besides deleting the file. But don't worry, VS.NET will create it back when you open the sln file.
The projects file (C# .csproj and VB.NET .vbproj)
Those files are XML based, so it won't really be hard to clean them. All you have to do is remove the following attributes on the main project node (which is named CSharp or VisualBasic):
SccProjectName
SccLocalPath
SccProvider
SccAuxPath
The setup projects files (.vdproj)
They are quite similar to the .csproj and .vbproj except on one point: they are not XML based. You'll have to remove the following lines : "SccProjectName" = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
"SccLocalPath" = "8:..\\.."
"SccAuxPath" = "8:"
"SccProvider" = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
All the other stuff
Visual Studio creates a few files for managing the source code integration, so you'll have to delete those files:
- In the same folder as the .sln file, you should find a solutionName.vssscc.
- With the projects file, you'll have a projectFileName.projectExtension.vspscc.
- You will also find some vssver.scc and mssccprj.scc in the project directory.
If you use MS SourceSafe as your source "database", you'll also find a vssver.scc file in each folder: delete them all if you want, but I didn't have any issues for not having done so.
History
- v 0.9.3.0: Support for localhost-based asp.net projects
- v 0.9.2.0: VDPROJ support, French chars in project and solution support.
- v 0.9.0.0: First release, quite a few things yet to do.
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Before using such tool, someone should try the File/SourceControl/ChangeSourceControl dialog and Unbind-ing all the bound projects... That is the recommended way to disable source control integration for projects.
Other tips:
- do not delete suo files if you want to work with web projects. If you do, you risk either opening another user's website or even not opening the project at all.
- no need to delete vssver.scc, mssccprj.scc files - they are created by VSS, not by scc integration.
Alin
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Hi, thanks for the good solution. I'm download a project from this code project site last night and have directly problem with scc-files and do not what i'm do now to solve the problem. I'm search today and find your solution, download, run and the problem was gone.
Nice 
thanks,
Peter
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Bring up the Source Control toolbar.
Click "Change Source Control".
On each bound project, select it, and then click the unbind button.
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This tool has been out awhile and I come back about once every 3 months to use it. It has worked flawlessly on large (30+ projects in a solution) and small solutions.
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It's throwing a file not found error in GetProjectsFromSlnFile...I'm still playing with it, but if I could know if this should be working OOTB it would be nice...
Thanks,
Peter
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Hi,
thank you for this great tool, because i have to do a very similar task (change form binary references to project references) i am interested in your source code. Is it open source? Can i get it?
thanks Wolfi
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Hello,
Source code is included in the zip file. You may use it as you want, provided you add a (c) Creo Ignem & Michael CARBENAY if you don't change anything. If you release something which is "based" (that is : you write your code using part of my code), nothing as to be said about my work.
By the way, i'll appreciate if you publish your tool on codeproject or send me a version...
Michael CARBENAY
Creo Ignem
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Hi,
Thanks for the tool & the great information.
Do you have any idea where the IDE or VSS stores it's information when you version control your stored procedures? (this is done via the Server Explorer window)
As an FYI - If you care - Here is an old sample of how to do this
http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2003/02/24/2880.aspx
I am versioning my procedures in VSS through the Server Explorer window, and my VSS database has moved. Everything is now hosed, and I cannot find where to tell the IDE, VSS, or whatever where the new VSS database is located. The Server Explorer window is independent of any solution.
Thanks,
-Len
Thanks,
-Len Miller
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Any likelyhood of you adding support for C++ projects (*.vcproj) in the near future?
Anna 
Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint 
Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia Graesch
"Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart"
- A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Err... C++ projects... right... err...
I didn't look at the visual c++ project file format, still using visual c++ 6.0 for my own.
I'll try to look into it and see if I can add support in the next few days.
Michael CARBENAY
Creo Ignem
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Thanks.
The format is pretty similar to C# and V.NET, so you should find it familiar.
Anna
Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint
Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
- Marcia Graesch
"Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart"
- A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Hi,
I've used the source safe utilities in my own addin, which backs up a solution to a zip file, and part of the process is to remove sourcesafe information.
I'm struggling, becuase my VB.net translation works up until the point where the regular expressions examine the file text, and I suspect it's where I translated the C# RegEX to vb.net.....
Would someone help me with this?
From Method PatchDeployProject:
C# Code:
Regex r = new Regex("\\\"Scc\\w*\\\"\\s*=\\s*\\\".*\\\"");
VB.Net Code:
Dim objRegEx As New Regex("\\""Scc\w*\\""\s*=\s*\\"".*\\""")
From Method PatchXMLProjectFile:
C# Code:
Regex r = new Regex("Scc\\w*\\s*=\\s*\\\".*\\\"");
VB.Net Code:
Dim objRegEx As New Regex("Scc\w*\s*=\s*\\"".*\\""")
Thanks - Great bit of code Michael.......
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err...
I'm not really good in VB.net and don't have this project on my office computer for testing. but if i'm not mistaken you should replace \\ by \ and \" by ""
so the lines Dim objRegEx As New Regex("Scc\w*\s*=\s*\"".*\""") may work for PatchXMLProjectFile and Dim objRegEx As New Regex("\""Scc\w*\""\s*=\s*\"".*\""") for PatchDeployProject should do the trick.
Let me know if it does the trick or not.
Michael CARBENAY
Creo Ignem
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OK, so I'm now officialy a vb.net guru 
I hope you'll post your add-in here, I'm always happy to test such an improvement to the (rather) poor vstudio.
Michael CARBENAY
Creo Ignem
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internal abstract class RemoveSccBaseCommand
{
[Skipped]
public void Do()
{
[Skipped]
if (!_createBackup)
{
Directory.Delete(_backupDir);
}
}
Thank you. I like this tool.
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Errr.... what could I say ? "I've never tested with the 'don't backup' flag on ?" yes that could be what I've had to say....
Thanx.
Michael CARBENAY
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I prefer the - don't create it if you don't need it theory.
That way there is no argument about accidently deleting a desired backup after the event. The script above would delete a previous backup even if it was desired.. I used..
if (_createBackup)
if(!Directory.Exists(_backupDir))
Directory.CreateDirectory(_backupDir);
Excellent tool. Thank you Michael.
Greg
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I wrote this. Just copy text to a *.js file. Put the file to the same dir, where *.sln is. No need for exe...
<code>
/// Global ------------------------------------------------------
var deleteByForce = true;
var consoleOnly = true;
var defaultTimeOut = 1;
var showDetails = false;
var WSShell;
var fso;
var currentFolder;
var deletedFiles = 0;
var modifiedFiles = 0;
var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8;
var CharSetDefault = -2, CharSetUnicode = -1, CharSetAscii = 0;
var AttrNormal = 0, AttrReadOnly = 1, AttrHidden = 2, AttrSystem = 4,
AttrVolume = 8, AttrDirectory = 16, AttrArchive = 32, AttrAlias = 1024,
AttrCompressed = 2048;
Init();
Main();
//Test();
/// Main ------------------------------------------------------
function Main() {
var text;
// say hello
text = "Remove from SourceSafe has started.";
Out(text,true);
COut("Working folder: \r\n"+ currentFolder);
// delete files
// *.suo, *.eto, *.vssscc, *.vspscc, vssver.scc, mssccprj.scc
DeleteFiles("[.]*([.]suo$|[.]eto$|[.]vssscc$|[.]vspscc$|vssver[.]scc$|mssccprj[.]scc$)");
// modify files
// *.etp, *.sln, *.csproj
ModifyFiles("[.]*([.]etp$|[.]sln$|[.]csproj$)");
// say goodbye
text = "Remove from SourceSafe has finished. \r\n\r\n"
+ "Deleted files: \t" + deletedFiles + "\r\n"
+ "Modified files: \t" + modifiedFiles + "\r\n";
Out(text,false);
}
function Init() {
// detect command line
try {
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(" ");
} catch (e) {
consoleOnly = false;
}
// initialize
WSShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
currentFolder = GetCurrentFolder();
}
/// Files ------------------------------------------------------
// getcurrent folder
function GetCurrentFolder() {
return fso.GetFolder(fso.GetFile(WScript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder);
}
// delete files by mask
function DeleteFiles(mask) {
var files = FindFiles(mask);
var i;
Out("Deleting files", true);
for (i=0; i<files.length; i++) {
try {
fso.DeleteFile(files[i], deleteByForce);
deletedFiles ++;
} catch (e) {
WScript.echo(e.Message);
}
}
if (deletedFiles == 0) {
COut("No files were deleted.");
}
}
// find files
function FindFiles(mask) {
return GetFiles(currentFolder, mask);
}
// determine, if filename matches given mask
function MatchesMask(file, mask) {
return new RegExp(mask).test(file);
}
// get files in current folder & subfolders
function GetFiles(folder, mask) {
var result = new Array();
// do files in current folder
var files = new Enumerator(folder.Files);
for (; !files.atEnd(); files.moveNext()) {
if (MatchesMask(files.item(), mask)) {
result.push("" + files.item());
}
}
// do subfolders in current folder
var folders = new Enumerator(folder.SubFolders);
for (; !folders.atEnd(); folders.moveNext()) {
result = result.concat(GetFiles(folders.item(), mask));
}
return result;
}
/// Output ------------------------------------------------------
// output
function Out(text, useTimeOut) {
if (useTimeOut) {
useTimeOut = defaultTimeOut;
} else {
useTimeOut = -1;
}
if (consoleOnly) {
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(text);
} else {
WSShell.Popup(text, useTimeOut, "Remove from SourceSafe");
}
}
// output
function COut(text, useTimeOut) {
if (useTimeOut) {
useTimeOut = defaultTimeOut;
} else {
useTimeOut = -1;
}
if (consoleOnly) {
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(text);
}
}
/// Modify ------------------------------------------------------
// modify all files matching given mask
function ModifyFiles(mask) {
var files = FindFiles(mask);
var i;
Out("Modifying files", true);
for (i=0; i<files.length; i++) {
// WScript.echo(files[i]);
// try {
ModifyFile(fso.GetFile(files[i]));
modifiedFiles ++;
// } catch (e) {
// WScript.echo(e.description);
// }
}
if (modifiedFiles == 0) {
COut("No files were modified.");
}
}
function ModifyFile(file) {
switch (fso.GetExtensionName(file.Path).toLowerCase()) {
case "etp":
ModifyFileETP(file);
break;
case "sln":
ModifyFileSLN(file);
break;
case "csproj":
ModifyFileCSPROJ(file);
break;
}
}
function ReadFile(file) {
var stream = file.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, CharSetDefault);
text = stream.ReadAll();
stream.Close();
return text;
}
function WriteFile(file, text) {
var ro = ((file.Attributes & AttrReadOnly) != 0);
if (ro) file.Attributes -= AttrReadOnly;
var stream = file.OpenAsTextStream(ForWriting, CharSetDefault);
stream.Write(text);
stream.Close();
if (ro) file.Attributes += AttrReadOnly;
}
// remove element <SourceControlSettings>...</SourceControlSettings>
function ModifyFileETP(file) {
var text;
var re1 = new RegExp('(\\s*<SourceControlSettings(\\s[^>]*)?>[.\\s\\S\\r\\n]*<\\/SourceControlSettings>','m');
text = ReadFile(file);
text = text.replace(re1, "");
WriteFile(file, text);
}
// remove section GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) = preSolution ... EndGlobalSection
function ModifyFileSLN(file) {
var text;
var re1 = new RegExp('(\\s*GlobalSection\\(SourceCodeControl\\))[.\\r\\n\\s\\S]*?EndGlobalSection','m');
text = ReadFile(file);
text = text.replace(re1, "");
WriteFile(file, text);
}
// remove lines with SccProjectName, SccLocalPath, SccAuxPath, SccProvider
function ModifyFileCSPROJ(file) {
var text;
var re1 = new RegExp('(^\\s*SccProjectName = .*$)', 'm');
var re2 = new RegExp('(^\\s*SccLocalPath = .*$)', 'm');
var re3 = new RegExp('(^\\s*SccAuxPath = .*$)', 'm');
var re4 = new RegExp('(^\\s*SccProvider = .*$)', 'm');
text = ReadFile(file);
text = text.replace(re1, "");
text = text.replace(re2, "");
text = text.replace(re3, "");
text = text.replace(re4, "");
WriteFile(file, text);
}
</code>
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