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A question was asked recently about removing SourceSafe integration from Visual Studio 6. I need to do the same with Visual Studio 2008.
Our team uses Subversion and I have installed AnkhSVN, the Subversion plug-in for VS2008 (some other members of the team use VisualSVN). I find that SourceSafe "insists" on being the integrated source control tool of choice - the setting for source control plug-in in Tools > Options > Source Control seems to reset itself every time VS2008 is closed. This is very annoying and I want to get rid of SourceSafe.
I tried running the VS2008 install with the intention of switching off (effectively uninstalling) the SourceSafe plug-in, but there is no option for it.
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In Visual Studio File-->Source Control-->Change Source Control. click Unbind.
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Visual Studio stores source control preferences in the solution and project files. To switch providers, you have to first "unbind" the old provider.
Hand-editing the .sln and .proj files also works, but it's not exactly recommended.
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Found it! MS's Help and Support site describes it, see section 2
Add a DWORD registry key at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe\HideInVisualStudio
Set it to 1. Restart VS2008 and the SourceSafe plug-in option is gone.
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