Overview

Visual Studio provides a common interface that source contorl providers can use to write their own source control providers. This means you can use any number of source control systems through the same familiar Visual Studio interface. The problem is that until Visual Studio 2005 there is no easy way to switch the source control provider, that is where this tool comes in. The simple interface of this tool can be seen here:

All you need to do is simply check the checkbox next to the source code provider you want to enable and click the Update button.

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After you added a solution to source control in Visual Studio there is no easy way to completely remove the source control from that project. You can detach the project, or work in offline mode, but if you were moving to another source control system (CVS, Subversion, etc) or wanted to distribute your code the first thing you should do is remove all the sourcesafe bindings from that project. A quick and easy way to do this is using the SourceSafe Binding Remover tool.

The simple interface can be seen here:

You simply need to point the tool to your solution’s directory and it will do the rest. If you want to preview the changes that will be made simply press the “Remove SourceSafe Bindings” button without checking the “Remove Bindings?” checkbox. You can then check the checkbox when you are ready to remove all of the bindings from your files. This tool will modify the solution files, project files, as well as delete any source control specific files (.scc, .vssscc).

Quickly switch between source control providers using this application that lives in your system tray. As you can see from the image above all you have to do is right-click on the tray icon and then select the source control provider that you would like to use. This is a great utility for people who are constantly switching between source code providers.

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