Source Safe vs. VS 2003 Integration Issues

[Guest]

Sorry about the cross posting from the VSS newsgroup but I didn't get any
help there yesterday and I know this group is heavily traffic-ed. If I sound
annoyed and ticked off it's because I was:

I'm Running VSS 6.0d with VS 2003...

ARRRRGGGHHH!!!

Could someone POSSIBLY ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN to me why it is that every time I
try to add a solution to SS from within the Visual Studio IDE the SS tree is
created with 2 {or more} extra layers of project folder hierarchy? I have
been using integrated SS since Visual Studio 6 and I have NEVER seen this
extremely aggravating behavior ever before!!

And for bonus points could someone please tell me how to turn off the nearly
equally extremely annoying ".root" that gets appended to a project name every
time I am prompted to create a project? I have never seen this "feature"
before either...

Example:

1) Developer clicks "Add solution to Source Control" from IDE for project on
local drive at:

C:\PHN\PHN\NunitTests {code lives here}

2) Developer is prompted to create NunitTests.root project.
3) Developer erases extremely annoying ".root" that he did not want appended
to his project's name
4) Developer browses SS create dialog such that project SHOULD be created at:

$\PHN\PHN\NunitTests

5) Developer clicks Ok
6) Hour glass appears and Source Safe creates:

$\PHN\PHN\NunitTests\NunitTests\NunitTests {versioned code lives here}

7) Developer gets extremely angry as he spends 10 minutes
moving/renaming/deleting in SS and unbinding/binding in VS...

HOW DO I DISABLE OR DESTROY THIS EXCEEDINGLY ANNOYING "FEATURE"???????

--Richard

 

[Marina]

Forget about the integration,especially if you are having this many
problems. Just go into VSS and manually check out the files you need. This
will avoid all problems, with only 5 extra seconds of work.

 

[Guest]

Once I manually place files in SS I'm ok, it's just during the initial
creation. I prefer to work integrated, it's quite convenient actually.

 

[Marina]

Do you really create projects that often, that manually adding them into VSS
is a lot of work? Just drag and drop them in there, and then you'll be set
from then on...