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Application to Switch Version Control Systems

I have to use 2 different Source Code Controls: Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Rational ClearCase. Both of them provide a nice integration with the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, so that I can checkout/checkin files while editing them. Unfortunately, Visual Studio does not prompt you for the SCC to use (at least, I could find […]

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Jul 29, 1999
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I have to use 2 different Source Code Controls: Microsoft Visual Source Safe
and Rational ClearCase. Both of them provide a nice integration with the
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, so that I can checkout/checkin files while
editing them.

Unfortunately, Visual Studio does not prompt you for the SCC to use (at
least, I could find it). So I wrote a little utility that plays with the
registry and lets you set a specific SCC as the default one.

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