FIX: Errors from Project Differences Window

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Subfolders appear in the wrong place in the Project Differences window. SubFolders are interspersed with files in alphabetical order, rather than appearing underneath the file list.

This can cause errors on operations done in the Project Differences window such as Get, Checkout, Checkin, Show Differences and Add. The following error messages may appear:

"$/<Project> is not an existing filename or project"

"File <filename> is invalid. File may not begin with $.

"$/<filename> not found"

CAUSE

In Visual SourceSafe 6 functionality was extended to allow file system and SourceSafe information to appear in either pane. This allows project to project comparisons and directory to directory comparisons. SourceSafe operations (for example, get, add, checkout, and so forth) are only allowed when the diff included both projects and working directories, but the file system information can be on the left and the SourceSafe information on the right. This scenario was not allowed in Visual SourceSafe 5. Most of the code defects found involved assumptions carried over from Visual SourceSafe 5 about which pane was associated with file system or SourceSafe information.

RESOLUTION

Apply Service Pack 3 for Visual Studio 6.0, which contains fixes for Visual SourceSafe.
This can be downloaded from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/vssfixes.asp

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create the following directory structure on the Hard Drive:
      c:\myfiles
              \sub1
                   \bsub



2. In the sub1 directory create the files:
       Bfile.txt
       Cfile.txt
       Dfile.txt
       Efile.txt



3. In VSS create the following project structure:
       $/myfiles
           /sub1



4. Set the working folder of $/myfiles to C:/myfiles, then add all the files from C:\myfiles\sub1 to $/myfiles/sub1, except Efile.txt.



5. In the project pane of the VSS Explorer, right-click on $/myfiles, and choose Show differences from the shortcut menu. Select the Recursive checkbox, and click OK.

• Attempting a Get or Checkout operation from the right-pane will return:
     "$/myfiles/<file> is not an existing filename or project."
  
• Showing differences of any file underneath C:\myfiles\sub1\bsub will return:
     "File 'C:\myfiles\sub1\bsub\<filename>' not found."
  
• Attempting to add Efile.txt from the right pane will return the same error as ii), and attempting to add it from the left pane will return:
     "File $/myfiles/sub1/Efile.txt is invalid. Files may not begin with $."
  

1. Create a new file (AAFile.txt) in the C:\myfiles\sub1 folder.



2. Display the Project differences for $/myfiles/sub1, choosing the Recursive option.



3. From the right-pane of the Differences window, add AAFile.txt.

Additional query words: diff

Keywords : kbSSafe600fix kbSSExplorer kbVS600sp3fix kbDSupport kbGrpSSafe
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug