Hi all,

Everytime I try and use my Source Control I'm faced with the following error message:

There was a failure while initializing the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe source control provider. You cannot use this provider to perform source control operations.

When I click the help button I receive the follwoing information,

This message is displayed when a source control operation cannot be completed and Visual Studio cannot determine the precise cause of the error.

Things to check:

• Security settingsDo you have sufficient access rights to open a source control database?

• Network connectivityAre you still connected to the network? Is the source control server available on the network?

• Source control integrationHave you completely and correctly installed the named source control provider?

I have the correct security access rights.

I am connected to a network.

The installation is straight foward, don't think I did something wrong.

Can anyone please help me ??

Many Thanx.

Regards,

hi, I got the same problem with you. And finally I resolved it like following:

1. Open VS2005, then choose the menu:
Tools->Options, then click "Souce Control"
2. click drop-down box under text"Current souce control plug-in", use "None", rather then "Microsoft Visual Source Safe"

Hi,

The most possible cause of this problem is a missing dependency binary on the machine. Can you please try reinstalling/repairing VSS on the machine?

Thanks,

Nitin

Hi,

I have the same problem, so, i did reinstall vss on the machine and the problem persist, my problem begin when i did try install visual studio 6 and failure, help =S

Thanks.

i'm also haveing the same problem. i have reistalled VSS, and the IDE, with noluck

Please help

Kevin@oandp.com

I've randomly started having this same problem.

hi, I got the same problem with you. And finally I resolved it like following:

1. Open VS2005, then choose the menu:
Tools->Options, then click "Souce Control"
2. click drop-down box under text"Current souce control plug-in", use "None", rather then "Microsoft Visual Source Safe"

i'm currently getting the same error.. and another thing is, the "Open form from source control" is no longer on my VS 2003..

i'll try to reinstall VSS hopefully i can get any luck!

Hey!!!

I dont know if it will work for you or not. I got this error and i tried lot of things. Later i read this and got some idea regarding security. I had VSS user id same as my window login user. But passwords were different. I changed my VSS DB's password and made it same as my windows login's password.

It worked.

I get this message too often and this is what I have to do each time (there may be a more elagant way but this works for me). BTW, I am currently using VS 2008 Professional and PVCSfor source code control.

1) Back upyour workfile folders to ensure you don't lose any recent work

2) Open Visual Studio clean (no solutions loaded). If you are configured to automatically load your last solution, you may want to change your preferences.

3) Go into File / Source Control / Open From Source Control

4) Allow it to overwrite any / all files.

5) I usually get some message about the previous user not binding the solution correctly and instructing me to go into File / Source Control / Change Source Control and correct the binding (I think that is the message). Anyway, I go in there and find the code is already properly bound (binded ?).

6) After that, shutdown VS and reopen it.Usually I can open my project without any errors.

7) At this point, if you had any recent work that was overwritten in the process, make sure it is "checked out" inVisual Studio and then copy the updated files from yourbackup in step1above over the older file that was restored from Source Control. You will need to check the files back into Source Control to ensure the Source Control repository is up to date.

I hope this helps someone.

Ken

My problem is that in the File menu the Source Control menu cant be seen.

When opening the solution following message is shown

The projectappears to be under source control, but no source control provider is installed on this computer. Source control integration will be disabled for this project.

But VSS is installed on my system and I m unable to work in the unbound mode with the VSS

Thanks and Regards

Pooja

Pooja,

Referring back to the list of steps I posted, try and open Visual Studio clean (without any solutions loaded) and see if the Source Control menu can be seen. If it can, then back up your working folder on your workstation and try to open the solution from VSS (not from links to recent projects).

Thanks,

Ken

Hi Pooja, hope tat you will see this post.

I am facing the same issue now and I can't find the way how to open a solution from the VSS...

Thanks,

Oren

Hello all,

I had the same issue but found VSS2005 update here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943847. Installed it and voila - now it works!

Hope this works for you all.

Hi,

Sandeep,

Thanks for the tip! I'm running VSS 6.0 and VS 2003 and was having the same issue as some of the people posting here; File --> Source Control menu option was not showing up at all. After registering the VSS dll it appeared and everything works great!

Thanks,

Hasty.

Ha, so simple - same error happened after renaming the VSS directory under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\. Renamed it back to "VSS" and everything is honky-donkey again.

In spite of what Variables said back in 2007 in the message following yours, your suggestion worked for me. Thank you for the help.

Hi Sandeep,

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P.K.Rao

Sandeep's suggestion is indeed a good one! Thanks, man.

Here I reiterate what we've just done here at work:
- In VS2003, menu item File->Source Control wasn't showing up at all (VS wouldn't work with VSS, failed to open solution, etc)
- We registered SSSCC.dll
- The menu item in VS showed up, problem with opening solution were gone.

NICE!!

I've got the same problem, i.e. I'm using VSS 6.0d with VS2005. It was working fine, now after rebuilding my machine after a virus attack I'm getting the above error. I've since reinstalled VSS, but the error persists.

The only thing selecting "None" as the Source Control plug-in does is remove VSScontrol from the project. It DOES NOT solve the problem.