RSS and SourceSafe again

Yet again, the code I posted to generate RSS feeds from Visual SourceSafe has expired…I’ve posted a new version that will work until February 28, 2004.

More info (and instructions) here and here.

UPDATED: expiration date extended through October 31, 2004 – download the updated version from the links below.

Download: msi | zip

 

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20 thoughts on “RSS and SourceSafe again”

  8. Greg Reinacker

    Graeme, an excellent question. :-) We have some other potential plans for this particular product…however, those plans haven’t yet been explored, and keep getting put off. Until we’ve had a chance to evaluate, I can’t release this code in a non-expiring fashion.

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  9. Yuriy

    If cannot find VSS DLLs – no any diagnostic

    Still starting, I assume it scans VSS project, but again – any log will be very helpful

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  10. Scott

    First, Matt’s comments about using domain\username during the install is a must. Also, I had to go back to my VS 6.0 disks and install the VSS Server to get the service to find the component/registered class {}/com object.

    — Scott

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  11. Ian Prest

    This rocks! But it’s using a lot of CPU time. It’s using about 40% of my CPU constantly, and a constant stream of network traffic (monitoring two fairly large VSS databases; about 40k files total).

    I’m running it on a spare machine, so I don’t mind the CPU usage too much. But is my VSS admin gonna come down on my head for putting a strain on the server? Can anyone comment on server load?

    Thanks,

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  12. Jim Hutson

    We’ve successfully installed this on our development server, but no vss.xml file is being generated, and we keep getting the following message in the event viewer:

    Exception occurred generating RSS.

    VSS Database: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\srcsafe.ini

    VSS Project: $/d01_Web

    Exception:

    The specified module could not be found.

    at VssRssSvc.GenRss.BuildRss(String srcSafeIniPath, String vssUser, String vssPass, String projectName, String outputPath, Int32 maxItems, Boolean recursive)

    please advise.

    thanks,

    ji

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  13. Jim Hutson

    We’ve successfully installed this on our development server, but no vss.xml file is being generated, and we keep getting the following message in the event viewer:

    Exception occurred generating RSS.

    VSS Database: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\srcsafe.ini

    VSS Project: $/d01_Web

    Exception:

    The specified module could not be found.

    at VssRssSvc.GenRss.BuildRss(String srcSafeIniPath, String vssUser, String vssPass, String projectName, String outputPath, Int32 maxItems, Boolean recursive)

    please advise.

    thanks,

    ji

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  14. Denis Haskin

    I’m now getting same error others have:

    Exception occurred generating RSS.

    VSS Database: \\csmain\DATA1\CSS\srcsafe.ini

    VSS Project: $/6764 – MN CVISN

    Exception:

    The SourceSafe database path dhaskin does not exist. Please select another database.

    I assume the message is in error? The database is not ‘dhaskin’, that’s the username…

    Hmm…

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  15. Andy

    I see that his expires at the end of Oct – Are you planning on extending the date again?

    I just started using it and it seems like a great tool

    Thanks

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  16. Ryan Cromwell

    What’s up with continuous expiration? Are you going to open it up or keep posting a new release? I like it, but if it’s not gonna be released without restrictions, it’s not worth much.

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  20. Ivan Draghi

    I have found the solution to the The SourceSafe database path XXX does not exist. You should specify paths in the \\myserver\mydir format rather than V:\mydir format.

    I changed this and it works.

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