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VssReporter Description

A Visual SourceSafe reporting tool for build administrators

A support tool to allow those performing builds to independently determine exactly what source files have been changed and by whom

With most real-world activities its fairly easy to determine whether someone has done something or not:

"Jimmy, have you cleaned your room?"

"Yes Dad"

(clump, clump, clump - sound of dad walking upstairs)

"No you jolly well haven't (or words to that effect). Get to it"

Software, however, is a completely different kettle of fish.

The bit you see (the binary's UI, web page or other) is generally just the tip of the iceberg (especially with binaries), with most of what really makes up the component hidden away out of sight.

Moreover, compiled binaries are further complicated by the extra level of indirection caused by the compilation process; something that becomes all too painfully clear to the unlucky sod responsible for performing regular builds on projects of more than one person.

It sounds so simple, mailing all the coders to find out what they've worked on since the last build. But that's when you discover that few coders retain a clear memory of exactly what they fixed (or broke) in the preceding week (or even day).

Indeed, some can barely remember what they had for breakfast ;)

It's the things we do almost unconsciously, like minor refactoring (aka 'spring cleaning' or 'tidying up'), that are especially prone to being forgotten.

I have had many experiences caused by both myself and others where an apparently innocuous 'minor' code change has caused no end of trouble because no one can recall changing anything in the code where the problem occurs.

Important Note

VssReporter requires Visual SourceSafe 5 or 6 to be pre-installed, both to run it and to build it.

Since this is not a free redistributable (as far as I am aware) I cannot include even the VSS component (ssapi.dll) that VssReporter requires.

Note: If anyone can point me to a Microsoft document that proves me wrong, then I will gladly include ssapi.dll - but not at the present.

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