I've just added a solution to VSS2005 by creating a new solution in Visual Studio 2005 and checking the 'Add Solution to Source Control' checkbox in the 'New Solution' wizard. After making some random changes to the solution, I checked in my new code and closed VS2005.
If I reopen VS2005 and attempt to open the same solution via the 'SourceSafe explorer (ie File-Open-Project/Solution/SourceSafe(Internet)) we receive the following error:
'There was a failure downloading the URL' http://server.company.ca:81/SourceSafe/VssDownload_db1/<someguid>/<someguid>.bin. Do You want to retry downloading this file from the server
However, if I chose to open the file from my Recent Projects list, it opens corectly and I can synchronize with SS2005 without any problems.
Is this a setup issue or possible a bug
Thanks in advance.
'There was a failure downloading the URL' from Visual Studio 2005
randywheeler
It looks to me like a setup issue.
I'd check the IIS logfiles for http and Win32 error codes and see if they provide more information why the http download request failed.
Your local solution may already have the latest version, and after opening the solution from local disk, "synchronizing with VSS 2005" (probably a Get operation ) may not need to retrieve any newer files, so in this case you don't see the problem.
Alin