List of bugs fixed in SourceSafe 2005 GDR
I'm a big fan of the work Brian Harry has done to make our processes more transparent. Nevertheless, to badly misquote one of my other bosses, "transparency for the sake of transparency is soo 2006." I chuckled again writing this, because there's a grain of truth there: telling you I produced 4 widgets per furlong yesterday doesn't make your experience with Microsoft dev tools any better.
With that principle in mind, I want to broadcast details about the GDR I just announced. More than that, I want it to be useful. To that end:
- I'm including an ID with each bug. This should allow you to easily refer to bugs among yourselves and when asking us questions. I considered using the internal bug IDs, but
- They would be huge numbers, since it's developed in the same TFS team project as all of Orcas. Huge numbers are meaningless to you, and possibly offensive to the Orcas folks ;-)
- They would be ordered by Creation Date. I want my IDs ordered by Resolved Date so that I can easily append to the list as more bugs are fixed.
- I'm including all bugs regardless of source: DTS bugs, bugs opened on Connect, and bugs opened internally. (DTS bugs are what get created when a case bubbles up from calls to Customer Support. Read Brian's post for more details & caveats.)
- I'm including KB article numbers wherever possible. All DTS bugs that result in a hotfix eventually get a KB article. We may write articles for other bugs too depending on time & interest...no promises though.
ID |
Bug Title |
KB article # |
1 |
DTS:SSuser: SSService.exe fails on Windows 2000 server |
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2 |
DTS SSAFE : hotfix request - analyze 2005 -D removes valid items from database |
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3 |
DTS : Taking much time (over 30 mins) when checking in 20 M bytes excel file. |
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4 |
DTS : Failed to open *.pdf files which are registered on Visual SourceSafe 2005 |
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5 |
VSS2005: lost internet accounts listed for file security property after web project file merged change from multiple developer |
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6 |
Analyze reports corruption on database with root labeled |
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7 |
DTS Binary_Mask is not respected during operations like Checkin, Diff, etc result ing corrupting pDF files |
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8 |
DTS : Visual SourceSafe 2005 doesn't change the past history contents file format. |
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9 |
VSS Merge Changes File Permissions |
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10 |
DTS: VSS2005 - Crash on preview of report from History dialog |
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11 |
comment template only allow 2 lines |
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12 |
DTS: SourceSafe 2005 - Checkin corrupts XML file with diff chain size mismatch error |
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13 |
The VSS button in places toolbar doesnt show when running as normal user |
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14 |
Get Binary file in 2005 results in different file content than retrieving the file in 6.0 (corrupted file) |
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15 |
VSS and Vista: The SCC provider is not functioning |
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16 |
Switching file filters when looking at VSS database causes the DB logging dialog to comeup and doubles all items |
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17 |
VSS and Vista returning "No such interface supported" when trying to navigate to a VSS database |
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18 |
VSS namespace extension doesn't respect filter (legacy dialogs only) |
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19 |
VSS2005 explorer crash when generate report with "include difference" checked at show history dialog |
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20 |
Vista: Clicking on ">" and then selecting a VSS item in the drop down list on Vista address bar causes another drop down list to appear |
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21 |
Add Existing Item dialog should not remember VSS opened paths |
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22 |
Cannot add multiple files from VSS database |
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23 |
The VSS full path including user and password are stored in plain string on the MRU list of OS dialogs |
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24 |
Fix the Orcas+VSS on Vista MRU Issue |
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25 |
DTS: SourceSafe: Request for QFE to enable Autodetectencoding property set on checked out items |
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26 |
DTS Ole automation reports An item with the name "" already exists |
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27 |
DTS: Slow performance when checking in large binary file |
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28 |
VSS Explorer does not display history or properties on Win2k |
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29 |
Can't leave file writable during Get Latest |
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30 |
SS history -#1 -L -B could not ignore blank labels |
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31 |
Get replaces writable files |
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32 |
Visual Source Safe Crashes When Right Clicked In TaskBar |
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33 |
Ole automation get does not retrieve blank folders |
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34 |
Show Differences report ignores file selection |
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35 |
Check Out Folder changed to temp directory |
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36 |
VSS / Visual Studio leaking 22 GDI handles each time Diff window is opened. |
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37 |
DTS: SSAFE: Timeout errors from Visual Studio accessing VSS 2005 DB over HTTP |
938607 |
38 |
line command get returns version not found |
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39 |
DTS: VSS 2005: GET operation from Interface on folder with over 3000 files much slower than in VSS 6.0 |
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40 |
Visual SourceSafe 2005 crashes when right clicking in the taskbar |
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41 |
Canceling a large get operation results in files being left writable |
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42 |
Label promotion after "share, pin, and branch" operation fails when retrieve at subfolder level |
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43 |
DTS Recursive diff does not follow assign working directories |
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44 |
DTS: VSS 2005 Is there a way to disable auto detect file type when dragging and dropping files in VSS Explorer |
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45 |
DTS: "File or project not found" retrieving VSSVersion.VSSItem on rollback items |
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46 |
VSS:An unexpected error dialog appears before log-on to VSS database dialog while opening a project from VSS. |
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47 |
Source Safe item in Places Toolbar has a generic name inconsistent with the Whidbey scheme |
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48 |
SCCI: Changing destination folder during OpenFromScc is broken if you have Whidbey VSS + Orcas VS installed |
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49 |
Open Project Dialogs' "Error Renaming Database" alert is not modal |
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50 |
SCCI RAP: Closing VS causes a crash when open an exsiting solution to different destination folder from SCC(Remote) |
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51 |
AddItemProjectFromVSS does not work |
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52 |
Many error alerts appear when opening solution from SCC using VSS Internet (RAP) |
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53 |
Messages do not show in output for source control |
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54 |
Cannot connect to VSS over HTTP when using Vista + Whidbey SP1 + VSS Admin |
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55 |
Archive Pinned File Reverts to wrong version |
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56 | DTS : VSS2005 Analyz.exe throw C++ EH exception. | |
57 | VSS Explorer launches visual merge when there are no conflicts | |
58 | Changing the 'Store only latest version' property should require the Destroy permission | |
59 | SCC/VSS: SCC Plug-in Settings for "Login ID" is not being retained/used properly... | |
60 | Visual SourceSafe 2005/6.0d: Can add file with "%" in filename, but can't check-in changes. | |
61 | VSS: it says "path does not exist" while opening file from SCC to a valid path after uninstalling Whidbey | |
62 | Source Safe Custom Editor configuration is case sensitive | |
63 | SCCI RAP: Failed to add web project into vss server when web page is open to design view | |
64 | Open project from SCC fails with VSS SP1 when running VS as administrator |
In case you're wondering, there is a pretty even mix between the sources of bugs that I mentioned above. To be exact:
DTS: 22
Other CSS customers: 6
Connect: 11
Internal testing: 16
(charts and statistics are as of 6/6/2007 - I will update this)
"Other customers" are bugs that were reported to Customer Support Services but opened outside the DTS process, either because the issue was not severe enough or the customer didn't want to pursue a hotfix. So in sum, 39/55 or 71% of the bugs we are fixing come directly from you. Keep'm coming!
update 8/6/2007: added #56-57. I'm not going to recalc the statistics.
update 11/16/2007: added #58-63. No stats recalc. These will be in the final release only, not the CTP we shipped in July.