FIX: Multiple Check In Fails with Keyword Expansion

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows 5.0
• Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0
• Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 32-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio 97

SYMPTOMS

When you use Developer Studio or Visual Basic to check multiple files containing SourceSafe keywords into a SourceSafe database that has keyword expansion enabled for those files, only the first file checks in.

RESOLUTION

Use the SourceSafe Explorer to check in multiple files when keyword expansion is required.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1.

For additional information about the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbSSafe kbSSafe500bug kbVBp kbVBp400 kbVC kbVC500 kbVS97sp1fix
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0,97; winnt:5.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbbug