I would like to install VSS 2005 so I can work on a project that is stored under it. Does anyone have any idea where the VSS 2005 client can be obtained? It does not appear to be on my VS2005 install disc (although that is for Team Suite). I cannot get any help from Google. I have an MSDN license (AA edition) but it doesn't seem to be there. This is a real product right?
Just to clarify preemptively based on some of the discussions I see on Google when I search for things like "VSS 2005," I am aware of the flaws in VSS and I still need to get it working; I am not interested in converting the project to Subversion; I am not able to transfer it to TFS; I am not able to upgrade the project to VS2008.
Thanks.
Two places, both from Microsoft:
Microsoft Store ($549.00)
MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Developer Tools > SourceSafe)
So, this is an old thread but occasionally still relevant. I'm adding an answer in case anyone comes across it in a google search.
If you have a copy of VSS 2005 installed on another machine but can't find the installation media, you can just copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Source Safe to your local machine. It will run just fine. Launch ssexp.exe and have at it.
You can get it from MSDN, I just looked it is there...see screenshot below
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I copied all visual studio community 2022 files from one computer to another, it is working good in the first computer, in the second computer, when I launch it, everything work good but it required prerelease software license!.
I signed to new account and trying to check for updates but the error message ("we could not download updated license , check your network connection or proxy").
How can I solve this?
Can I copy the license code or file or whatever from the other computer which works good?
From visual studio 2019, the installation method has some changes. You can't copy visual studio from one pc to another directly. This way becomes more difficult than before. But still there are some ways to doing that. The best way which recommended in Microsoft documentation named offline installation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 this will help you find some workaround solutions for your issues.
I have a problem and there are no lots of documents about that.
I will use visual studio as ide.
I want to use visual source safe for sharing and logging our projects from a server.
I installed source safe.But i have some help about how to connect this machine to our programmers machine.
I need detailed help about this because this is an unusual subject for me.
If there is someone to help we can do it by remote too.
Thank you for helping.
Do you want to retrieve the files which your programmers stored in SourceSafe database? If so, you can use Open from Source Control command under File menu. More details
You can also refer to the using VS with SourceSafe tutorial here.
Ok, before I explain in detail, here's my (very odd) setup:
Hardware: iMac
OS: Mountain Lion
Software:
Editor (Mac): Sublime 2
Virtualization: Parallels Running Windows Server 2008
IDE (Windows): Visual Studio 2010
Source Control (Windows): Team Foundation Server
So here's my dilemma.
I looooove Sublime 2. However, being a Microsoft shop at my workplace, I have no choice but to deal with TFS. I don't do a lot of back-end coding, I'm a front-end guy and don't need all the hefty class and structure tracking built into Visual Studio, so Sublime is perfect for me.
One of the things I love about Sublime is that I can hit cmd+p and pull up any file immediately. The alternative is spending several minutes sifting through our file structure to locate the same file (we have a massive project structure...it's a beast).
Unfortunately, I can't just tap cmd+p and pull up any file...I can...but after editing it, I hit save and "uh oh! file isn't checked out, it's read only". I then have to switch spaces, spend several minutes sifting through directories to locate that same file I worked on, and check it out. Switch back, save, and then check it in. It wastes a lot of my time and defeats the time-saving benefits of Sublime's file searching.
What I'd like to know is if there's an easier way to accomplish this. I've tried a few things and none have panned out. I found a plugin that integrates TFS with Sublime - but that only works for Windows. I tried using Eclipse with a TFS plugin, but I still have to browse through a massive directory structure to check out the file in Eclipse before editing it in Sublime.
Is there any way to streamline this process better? I know it might sound silly to go through such extremes to save a minute or two here & there, but when I do this hundreds of times a day, it starts to save a LOT of time!
Thanks in advance to the community for any help on this!
If you can persuade your TFS Admin team to upgrade to TFS 2012 you will have your solution. TFS 2012 supports "Local Workspace" which does not keep files read-only on disk. You download your source code once through Visual Studio or Eclipse and keep working in ANY editor you want. TFS Client tracks changes on the file system and you just need VS or Eclipse to check-in your work at the end of the day.
For TFS 2008 and 2010 you have to check-out your files manually or with the help of a supported IDE. Those versions only support "server workspace"s and that flavour of workspace keeps all files on disk as read-only.
You might have another chance with 2008 or 2010 tough. TFS 2008 and TFS 2010 on Windows platform supports offline working, which temporarily disconnects your workspace from the server to do your work. Then at the end of the day you go back online and TFS client tries to "detect" what changes were made when you were offline and lets you check them in. This blog post says Team Explorer Everywhere supports offline work. You might need to remove read-only flags of files manually. Offline working is not perfect even on Windows platform and you need to be careful until you get used to it but I believe it is worth giving a shot.
If upgrading to TFS 2012 is an option then you probably want to consider it.
TFS2012 with local workspaces no longer require files to be checked out in visual studio first (files are no longer marked as readonly, and vs detects changes from other programs). This will get rid of one of your alt-tabs to windows.
You'd still have to alt-tab back to check in, you could potentially use a commandline "tf checkin" if you don't want to keep visual studio open.
So after trying several suggestions from here, among a few I found elsewhere, I've come to the conclusion that the best setup (for me) is as follows:
Editor (Mac): Sublime 2
Editor (PC): Sublime 2 with TFS plugin
Virtualization: Parallels Running Windows Server 2008
IDE (Windows): Visual Studio 2010 Source Control
(Windows): Team Foundation Server
So as you can see I updated my existing setup with one slight tweak. On my Windows side, I installed Sublime 2 and installed the TFS plugin. If I want to check out a file, I switch to windows, search for the file, check it out via Sublime's TFS plugin, then switch back to the Mac. It's certainly not ideal, and requires an extra step, but it seems to work the best for me and is faster than using Visual Studio to check in/out.
If anyone comes up with a more elegant setup (aside from using TFS 2012 - which thankfully is coming for my organization), I'd love to hear about it. In the meantime, I hope this helps anyone else who might be using a setup similar to mine.
Around 2006 Microsoft used to give away ISO images of the MSDN libraries. Unfortunately they don't do this anymore. Now if you want to have local help, you have to download it from the Visual Studio environment. The problem is that I just installed Visual Studio 2012 on a home PC with no internet access.
Anyone knows how to download a copy of the documentation that I can manually install on my PC?
You can get the ISO for the Visual Studio 2012 documentation here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34794
It's 2.7GB large.
UPDATE:
Microsoft has added the ISO for Visual Studio 2013 documentation to the same link as above.
That ISO is 4GB large.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/9/2/8928585D-136D-4528-AECC-2F211902A8D7/VS2012Documentation.iso
The help documentation for vs 2012 ultimate is very much available at the link provided above.
I remember looking for this as well a while ago, and (although I may be incorrect) there is no reasonable way to do this. There is still the documentation available on CD but as far as I'm aware you must be an MSDN subscriber, but as you found out there are no longer the ISOs available for download - shame really as they were useful.
The only way to get it is to beg, steal or borrow (but really not the second option...) the CDs from somebody who has an MSDN subscription and is willing to let you use them. However, just for the record, I imagine this is against the terms of sale.
I spend a lot of time offline, and while normally I'm in the middle of some book or magazine for work, I've recently been reading through the MSDN Library documentation of Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (aka TFS 2010).
Unfortunately, this documentation doesn't seem to be included on either the Vs2010 nor the VsAlm2010 installation media anymore, and I can't find any downloads for it...does it simply not exist except in online form?
I'd find it hard to believe that the only way to get at this documentation would be to hit a website for every request. What am I missing?
Wow - I'm a little surprised. Even on the MSDN Subscriber download site, the MSDN library downloads only go up to 2007.
But, you can tell the VS 2010 installation to install the content locally.
Go to "Help|Manage Help Settings" and under "Choose online or local help" select "I want to use local help".
You can also use the Help Manager to install online help updates locally. This might get the specific docs you're looking for (TFS ALM) pulled down - I'm not sure, but might be worth a try.
Related: Download Windows API reference (MSDN) for offline use
Install Zeal and add MSDN docset feed - this will give you rather a huge (it contains 41'181 method, for example) flat list of methods, constants, classes etc, not something as nicely laid out as MSDN site, but the search is lightning fast. Download size is ~3'400Mb;
or
Use VSHD to download offline help files for Visual Studio Help Viewer (applicable for VS 2012+) - this offers you the pleasure of leaving VS itself firewalled as it honestly should be. Download size varies.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34794
This download includes an ISO image file of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation—overviews, how-to articles, API reference pages, sample code, and more—to help you in your development efforts.
Version:
See file name.
File Name:
VS2012Documentation.iso
VS2013Documentation.iso
Date Published:
6/10/2014
File Size:
2.7 GB
4.0 GB
If you have installed Visual Studio completely, you will find it locally. Goto Help > View Help or Press 'Ctrl + F1'