PRB: SCC API Error "Project Created" Occurs When Opening a PJX

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you open a project (.pjx) in Visual FoxPro 5.0, the following error message appears:

   SCC API error "Project created" occurred. The project will be opened
   without source control.

CAUSE

You deleted the SourceSafe project that was associated with this .pjx project.

RESOLUTION

For example, the project "Tastrade.pjx" is under SourceSafe control in a project named $/FoxApps/Tastrade.

If you did not select the "destroy permanently" checkbox when you deleted the Tastrade project, the integration with the .pjx can be restored to its previous state by following these steps:

1. Close the project (.pjx).

2. The Visual SourceSafe Explorer lists a project named $/FoxApps/Tastrade that does not have any files in it. You may have to collapse and expand the Visual SourceSafe tree view to see this project. Select the project. On the File menu, choose Delete.

   IMPORTANT: Ensure that the "destroy permanently" checkbox is selected.

3. In the Visual SourceSafe Explorer, highlight the parent project of the project that was linked to the .pjx (in this example select $/FoxApps). On the File menu, choose Properties. The Deleted Items tab lists the deleted Tastrade project. Click "Recover." The $/FoxApps/Tastrade appears in the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.

4. Finally, select the Tastrade.pjm file (for every .pjx, a .pjm file is created by the integration) in the Visual SourceSafe Explorer and check it out.

If you selected the "destroy permanently" checkbox when you deleted the Tastrade project, you can add the .pjx back to SourceSafe, but you lose the history of all the files. To do this, type the following Visual FoxPro commands in the Command Window:

   CLOSE ALL
   USE Tastrade.pjx
   REPLACE ALL sccdata WITH ""
   USE
   MODIFY PROJECT Tastrade

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this behavior and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Add a project (.pjx) to source control as described in the "Visual

      FoxPro Developer's Guide," Chapter 29, pages 678   680, under the
      heading "Putting Projects Under Source Control."
   
   

2. Close the project (.pjx).

3. Start the Visual SourceSafe Explorer, and delete the project that is associated with the project (.pjx).

4. In Visual FoxPro 5.0, open the project (.pjx) and the error occurs.