Removing SourceSafe Integration from Visual Studio 6

Question

Recently, the SourceSafe integration into visual studio has started to perform badly because we have moved, and the SourceSafe \"server\" is located across a VPN which goes

Answer 1

What has worked for us, and is much easier, requires no registry/file editing by hand, and safer I think is this:

1) Exit Visual Studio completely.

2) Disconnect from the network (unplug the cable and turn off wireless, or disable the network adapters)

3) Open the VS6 workspace (DSW) for the project. When it starts up it will find it cannot connect with the VSS database it wants to and ask you about that...

4) Tell VS to never try to reconnect to the source control db in the future.

5) Done... VS does all the changes to THAT WORKSPACE/PROJECT setup for you. You are not disconnecting VS from source control in general (like a registry edit would do) and your not manually editing files.