RE: database not defaulting in IDE

Hi, Luther,

Thanks for letting us know. It happens to the best of us.  : )

Linda Bauer
SourceGear
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At 02:55 PM 4/13/2004, Luther Miller wrote:

>Fortunately you can chalk this one up to user error. It turns out that
>this particular machine had SOS client 3.5.2 installed. The upgrade
>resolved the problem.
>
>-Luther
>_____________________________________________________________
>Luther Miller * Managing Architect * MCSD (.NET)
>Softagon Corporation * www.softagon.com
>1 Pier Ste 3 * San Francisco, CA 94111
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Luther Miller
>Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:20 AM
>To: Linda Bauer; [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [SOS-LIST] 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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Bauer [mailto:[email protected]]
>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
>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
> >the selected as the default. I have to manually change it to the
>correct
> >database (which starts with 'C').
> >The SOS client seems to remember the last/correct database as the
>default,
> >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
> >
>
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