Free sourcesafe software for windows

Backup your visual sourcesafe (VSS) source code tree easy and reliable with this simple but effective batch script. Just schedule the script, edit the params to your needs and let it run. The output is written in seperate directories and best of all, its easy to backup these files to either another machine or to tape using your own backup-software. No unreadable, strange VSS database to backup anymore. Just backup the real files!
-real files, no VSS database
-easy to schedule
-can send reports by mail
-will report to txt at every backup
-better safe then sorry: use in combination with regular backup!

SourceWatch is a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe add-on that automatically notifies users via email of changes that have occurred in the VSS repository. Using SourceWatch, development teams can increase productivity through real-time notifications, decrease potential for collisions, and provide a cost-effective way to manage changes in a fast-paced environment.

Visual Source Safe 2005 Update CTP 1 is built to be a useful and improved prerelease rollup of bug fixes for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005. Fixes in the GDR include stability, performance, data integrity, and usability enhancements in many areas of the product.

Visual Source Safe 2005 Update CTP also improves compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Vista. A comprehensive list of fixes that were previously published in the Microsoft Knowledgebase can be found by following the appropriate link under additional information on this page.

Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

Deleting an item from Visual SourceSafe can be done in one of the following ways:
By using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer, case when the space in the SourceSafe database is not actually freed until you check the "Destroy permanently" checkbox.
From an IDE (Visual Basic, Visual C++ etc) case when the "Destroy permanently" option is not even usually available.
As a result, a lot of garbage items will continue to take space in the SourceSafe database until you manually purge them. This operation usually takes a lot of time because it can only be done in a non-recursive manner. Imagine you have 500 folders in the SourceSafe database - manually walking through them and purging logically deleted items may take a lot of time.
AxTools VssRecursivePurge gives you the possibility to clean your database and to search for items in a SourceSafe database and after the search is complete you can purge them.
AxTools VssRecursivePurge allows you to search for all the logically deleted items in a SourceSafe database and purge part or all of them in a very convenient way. Cleaning up a 500-folder database will take now from seconds to a few minutes, depending on your network configuration.
Enhancements:
- The login name and vss database text entry fields were changed to combo boxes. The last 10 entered values are remembered for each, and the text entry is implemented through a predictive algorithm.
- Added Windows XP visual styles support.
- When entire projects were found as deleted, purging these projects yielded to situations where their (possible) marked as deleted children caused errors when being purged themselves.
- The user configured system font is now used by all dialogs.