problem connecting to VSS via http from VS2005 when unicode setting client PC   

Hi,

I'm experiencing a problem connecting to a SourceSafe database from
Visual Studio 2005.  The problem is described in the following post

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=67519&siteid=1

(cfr three last items) where also a solution is provided.

However, it does not seem to work for me.  Firstly, when I change the
International Settings in the SourceSafe client application, the dialog
tells me the setting is changed only upon restart of the application.
But when I restart it, and I open the dialog again, it shows me the
previous setting again (defaulting to Windows setting).  So I'm a bit
confused.  Is the change applied or not ?  Or is there still another
reason why it's not working.  Can it be changed via the registry? Any
hints any one ?  Oh, and my language for non-Unicode programs is set to
Russian...  And I 'm tired of having to reboot my system just to access
SourceSafe...  And so are my colleagues...


Thanks in advance for any tips.

date: 29 Nov 2005 15:14:08 -0800   author:   unknown

Re: problem connecting to VSS via http from VS2005 when unicode setting client PC   

Hi,

I'm not very clear which setting is not working correctly for you.

The one that causes a dialog that "tells me the setting is changed only upon 
restart of the application" to popup is the language for UI.
Only after restart VSS will show the dialogs in the new language (assuming 
you have installed the VSS version localized for that language)
That setting is saved in 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe\UILanguage, so you can see 
if VSS is at least trying to chage that value.
I think there were some bugs related to this setting that were fixed before 
the RTM, so if you run an older build you may want to upgrade to the latest 
bits.

The language for non-Unicode programs has nothing to do with the UI. It is 
used by the integrated Viewer/Diff/Merge windows when displaying or merging 
Ansi files.
This setting is saved in your user's ss.ini file, in a string like 
Codepage_For_NonUnicode_Files = 0 (default windows).

Anyway, I'm not very familiar with the UI/Ansi settings; you may also want 
to post the question on the forums (the dev and tester that worked on the 
feature are Russians too, they are likely to know better what's wrong)
-- 
Alin Constantin
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


 wrote in message 
news:1133306048.051508.163870@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing a problem connecting to a SourceSafe database from
> Visual Studio 2005.  The problem is described in the following post
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=67519&siteid=1
>
> (cfr three last items) where also a solution is provided.
>
> However, it does not seem to work for me.  Firstly, when I change the
> International Settings in the SourceSafe client application, the dialog
> tells me the setting is changed only upon restart of the application.
> But when I restart it, and I open the dialog again, it shows me the
> previous setting again (defaulting to Windows setting).  So I'm a bit
> confused.  Is the change applied or not ?  Or is there still another
> reason why it's not working.  Can it be changed via the registry? Any
> hints any one ?  Oh, and my language for non-Unicode programs is set to
> Russian...  And I 'm tired of having to reboot my system just to access
> SourceSafe...  And so are my colleagues...
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>

date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 00:37:13 -0800   author:   Alin Constantin [MSFT]