VSS question

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Frank Rizzo

Sorry to post an off-topic issue here, but the VSS NG is absolutely dead.

I have some files in VSS with the .iss extention. When I right click on
the .iss file in VSS and select Edit, I'd like a certain application to
come up (InnoSetup in this case).

InnoSetup comes up when I double-click on the file in the regular
explorer window. However, in VSS, the SourceSafe editor comes up.

How can I fix this?
Regards
 
Frank Rizzo said:
Sorry to post an off-topic issue here, but the VSS NG is absolutely dead.

I have some files in VSS with the .iss extention. When I right click on
the .iss file in VSS and select Edit, I'd like a certain application to
come up (InnoSetup in this case).

InnoSetup comes up when I double-click on the file in the regular explorer
window. However, in VSS, the SourceSafe editor comes up.

How can I fix this?
Regards
Click to expand...

I have ISTool come up for .iss files when I do it. But in any case, try
holding down the shift key when you dbl click the file in SourceSafe. I
always get a pop-up asking to view in SourceSafe viewer or using ISTool. I
can't seem to get rid of the window, but on the window there is a checkbox
which says "Only show this dialog when the Shift key is down". On my
machine, it is checked, but it still pops up w/o shift key being
pressed...<shrug>

HTH,
Mythran
 
Thanks, I actually just figured out the issue for all my apps (I had a
similar issue where my XML editor didn't come up for NAnt build files
either). Just make sure that you have the following tree in the
Registry for a hypothetical .sss extention (presented in InnoSetup
script format).

[Registry]
Root: HKCR; Subkey: ".sss"; ValueType: string; ValueName: ""; ValueData:
"SomeFileType"; Flags: uninsdeletevalue
Root: HKCR; Subkey: "SomeFileType"; ValueType: string; ValueName: "";
ValueData: "Some File Type File"; Flags: uninsdeletekey
Root: HKCR; Subkey: "SomeFileType\DefaultIcon"; ValueType: string;
ValueName: ""; ValueData: "{app}\SomeFileTypeApp.exe,0"
Root: HKCR; Subkey: "SomeFileType\shell\open\command"; ValueType:
string; ValueName: ""; ValueData: """{app}\SomeFileTypeApp.exe"" ""%1"""

That did the trick.
 
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