RE: database not defaulting in IDE

Hi Linda,

Here is what I did (to the best of my recollection):

We have many Visual SourceSafe databases on our company file server.
Currently, only three of them were exposed using SourceOffSite. One of
them is a database that I always work on. Let's say that the name that
we gave it in SourceOffSite is "CTestDb".

I have been using it for a while, and whenever I open Visual Studio .NET
OR the SourceOffSite Client, CTestDb is already selected so I do not
need to change it when I log in.

Recently, we needed to expose another database through SourceOffSite. I
went into the the SourceOffSite server manager, selected the Databases
tab, clicked Add, and specified the location of the new database and the
alias; let's say the alias was "BTestDb". I stopped and started the
service.

Now, when I open the SourceOffSite client, it still correctly defaults
my database selection in the drop-down to "CTestDb" - great.

However, when I open my project in the VS.NET IDE, it _always_ defaults
the selection to the new "BTestDb" database, even though I do not use
it. I have to switch it back to "CTestDb" EVERY TIME. In fact, even when
I get prompted a couple of times in a row to log in, I have to change
each of those times as well. This is quite annoying and prone to error;
in fact, I have mistakenly selected the wrong database several times
now.

So, it appears that the SOS client is keeping track of the default db
correctly for me, but the IDE client is not. I am using Visual Studio
.NET 2003 with a large solutions that includes several projects
including ASP.NET, web services, windows forms, console apps, and setup
projects.

We are using SourceOffSite 3.5.3.

Thanks,

Luther
_____________________________________________________________
Luther Miller * Managing Architect * MCSD (.NET)
Softagon Corporation * www.softagon.com
1 Pier Ste 3 * San Francisco, CA 94111
(415)946-6113 * (510)387-3490 cell * (415)946-6101 fax=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Bauer [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:30 PM
To: Luther Miller; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SOS-LIST] database not defaulting in IDE

Hi, Luther,

Could you send me the specific steps to reproduce this? Are you adding a

new project to source code control, opening a project from source code=20
control, or a different operation?

I experimented with this but I'm not sure I'm doing the same steps you
are.

Linda Bauer
SourceGear
Technical Support

visit our support forum at
http://support.sourcegear.com

At 06:33 PM 4/5/2004, Luther Miller wrote:
>Recently a new database was added to our SourceOffSite server.
>
>Now, whenever I open the IDE, that new database (which starts with 'B')
is=20
>the selected as the default. I have to manually change it to the
correct=20
>database (which starts with 'C').
>The SOS client seems to remember the last/correct database as the
default,=20
>but the IDE client is not. Is there a way to fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Luther
>
>_____________________________________________________________
>Luther Miller * Managing Architect * MCSD (.NET)
>Softagon Corporation * <http://www.softagon.com>www.softagon.com
>1 Pier Ste 3 * San Francisco, CA 94111
>(415)946-6113 * (510)387-3490 cell * (415)946-6101 fax
>