SourceSafe Addin Features

SourceSafe Addin is a Visual SourceSafe Addin which has two functions:

Prevent SourceSafe from checking files in when there isn't enough disk space left on the drive
aids documentation fo C/C++/IDL/ODL files by automatically adding/updating header information to the files if it is missing.

SourceSafe Addin only works with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6. There are no plans to port this to other versions.

N.B. Auto Aupdate assumes that you are always connected to the internet. If you are using a dial-up connection to the internet or are not connected to the internet you may be prompted by windows to connect to the internet.

Configuration

SourceSafe Addin from version 1.0 Build 10 reads from TSSrcSafeAddin.ini to determine its settings. SourceSafe Addin looks for TSSrcSafeAddin.ini in the same folder as the srcsafe.ini for the configuration file so that all users of the repository can use the same settings.

Example TSSrcSafeAddin.ini file

[UserInformationSettings]
;TRUE = Get Windows user's name and Take Initials from there
;FALSE = use SourceSafe's username
UseInitialsAsShortName=TRUE

[CommentSettings]
;if TRUE then it looks for a pattern : Comment
; e.g
; MR0001: Improved Speed by 5000%
UseFirstWordAsBugNumber=TRUE

; Date Formats are as follows:
; 0 = DDMMYYYY (shown as DD/MM/YYYY e.g 14/12/2004)
; 1 = MMDDYYYY (shown as MM/DD/YYYY e.g 12/14/2004)
; 2 = YYYYMMDD (shown as YYYY/MM/DD e.g 2004/12/14)
; Default is 0
DateFormat=0

Test Environment

Visual SourceSafe 6.0c (SP6)
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server as clients
Tested with SourceSafe Integration in Visual Studio 98, Visual Studio.NET 2002 and Visual Studio.NET 2003
SourceSafe has been Tested with Sourcegear's SourceOffSite 3.5.3. This works without any problems, although remote users do not get notification that the disk with SourceSafe on is out of disk space. Only users on the same LAN as the SourceOffSite server get notification. However, if there is a way to tell SourceOffSite itself that there is a disk space problem then please let me know. Auto-Update does work with SourceOffSite, but the new version will not be active until SourceOffSite has been restarted.
SourceSafeAddin has ONLY been tested with a permanent connection to the internet.

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