What makes Vault appear as source control provider?

[vrapp]

I have an application (Wise Installer Editor) that is source-control-capable; but when I'm trying to configure it, it says: "To use the source control features, you must have a source code control system (such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe) installed on your computer. No source code control system has been detected on your computer".

What this application might be looking at*? How source control systems register themselves in Windows as such?

My version of Vault is 4.1.4 (yes, I know it's very outdated, but so far it was working fine for all purposes, including recently Visual Studio 2010).


*) I realize that this question is rather to the support of Wise Installer Editor, but several years ago it was purchased by Symantec, with the usual consequences.

[Beth]

Usually Vault will show up if it is installed after the application it needs to connect to. Try an uninstall and re-install of the Vault GUI client.

If that doesn't work, then I'll have a few other things you can try, so just let me know your results.

[vrapp]

Didn't help. Let's try other things!

[Beth]

Rather than doing all the steps at once, do one at a time and then check if the Vault client shows up in WIE.

1) Open your Vault GUI client, go to Tools - Options - General and set Vault to be your default SCC provider.

2) At the run dialog run the command:

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regsvr32 vbscc.dll

3) Find vbaddin.ini and add vbscc=3 if it isn't present or change the number to 3 if the line is present, but with a different number.

4) Find the config file for the WIE executible. It would look something like productname.exe.config. Towards the top there might be an entry for <configuration>. Right after that, add the following lines.

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<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/> <requiredRuntime version="v2.0.50727" safemode="true"/> 
</startup>