VCS & VSS

[CamperWill]

I just installed the VCS plug-in, but am not able to open a project...

I get "ProviderType undefined". I basically guessed at what to enter in all of the fields of the pop-up...

Can someone provide a sample for openning a Visual SourceSafe project?

Thanks,
Will

 

[Marco Kalter]

On the "Open Version Control Project" dialog, did you select VSS as the System and press the Browse button on the right side of the Project list?

 

[hsshah]

Hi Marco,

I am getting the same error "ProviderType undefined".
In the "Open Version Control Project" dialog, even after I select Microsoft VSS, the browse button for the project list is disabled. When I press the "cancel" button, it gives me the message "Could not initialize Version Control System"

Does this require VSS server on the same machine? We have it installed on a 'server'. In the 'Aux Path' field I put the network path to the ini file on the server. Still it is not working.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Marco Kalter]

The error message "ProviderType undefined" indicates that something is wrong with the SCC configuration. Can you send me a registry export of:
hkey_local_machine\Software\SourceCodeControlProvider

 

[hsshah]

Hi Marco,

Here's the registry export of that branch.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider\InstalledSCCProviders]
"Microsoft Visual SourceSafe"="Software\\Microsoft\\SourceSafe"

 

[Marco Kalter]

Can you also check:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe

 

[hsshah]

Here's the export for that branch:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe]
"SCCServerName"="Microsoft Visual SourceSafe"
"SCCServerPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\VSS\\win32\\SSSCC.DLL"
"API Current Database"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\VSS"
"PromptForConnect"=dword:00000001
"Current Database"="\\\\slc-qa-01\\vss_db\\Shade"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe\Databases]
"Microsoft Visual Studio"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\VSS"
"Shade"="\\\\slc-qa-01\\vss_db\\Shade"
"\\\\slc-qa-01\\vss_db\\"="\\\\slc-qa-01\\vss_db\\"

 

[Marco Kalter]

Thanks. This seems okay. Does this file exist?

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\win32\SSSCC.DLL

 

[hsshah]

Yeah. It does

May be I will reinstall VSS client on the machine and see if that resolves this issue! I will let you if it does.

Thank you for your support.

 

[Yan Ji]

I just installed the VCS plug-in, but am not able to open a project...

I get "ProviderType undefined".

I tried the registry, but it still doesn't work.

Can anybody provide more information.

Thanks,
Yan Ji

 

[Marco Kalter]

When you install Microsoft VSS you must include the option "Enable SourceSafe Integration". This installation creates some registry keys that must be present in the hkey_local_machine registry of your PC, and also installs the necessary libraries. If you originally did not install this option, you need to do so now.