Source Control can cause VS.NET 2003 to hang

[flex]

Hi

I have managed to hang both VS.NET using VSS & Vault by doing the following with :

1) Load up a project
2) Build and Debug it
3) Whilst debugging (yes I know you should not!) check out the project (or any project in the solution - I think)
4) Copy a file in the selected solution using copy/paste
5) Undo Checkout

Sourcesafe or Vault will hang for at least an hour then returns an operation timed out to localhost.

I know the above situation should not happen but it is quite easy to navigate away from your running project and return back to the IDE unaware it is still running until it is too late.
The other bonus is that you are unable to have lost any work.

What does seem strange to me is that you cannot check out an individual file whist the debugger is running but you can check out the entire project.

As this is a problem in both Vault and VSS it is unlikely that the vault team can prevent this but you may be able to lean on Microsoft.

Richard

[dan]

Thanks for the report Richard - we'll do what we can...