Using both Vault and VSS

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:48 pm

Hi,

I have one solution that uses VSS with which I connect using SOS, it is set up as my default SCC in VS2003. I would like to use vault for my new project. Is it possible to configure solution to automatically set up Vault/VSS as SCC provider in VS. Mostly I work with VSS controlled repositories but I want to slowly move to vault with new projects.

thanx

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:05 pm

Switching source control providers requires a registry change, and it's not something you can do within your solution.

You can change providers in the Vault Client under Tools->Options->General->Make Vault your default scc provider.

There's also a little tool to change providers on the fly. It's called SCPSelector.

More info here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/20 ... 54043.aspx

davidt · Post by **davidt** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:05 pm

The blog Linda refers to also mentions another tool ("Soenke Schau's tool"), SccSwitcher. That's the one we use here.

The registry change is very minor; I've thought a couple of times about writing a VBScript that gets told which SCC to use and launches a project file after switching to it... someday.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:54 am

big thanks