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Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool for Team Foundation Server

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The official upgrade tool to move your Visual Source Safe repositories into Team Foundation Server

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Visual Studio

2012, 2010

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LAST UPDATED 11/14/2012

VERSION 1.0

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by Sergio Parra | April 27 2013

It helps me to upgrade my old visual source vb6 projects to tfs

by A. Coonce | April 15 2013

I had no problem at all migrating our TFS databases with this tool. This is a dramatic improvement over earlier releases.

by DEW4242 | April 14 2013

this is so complicated there has to be video tutorials for this its a must

by Talksocke | March 22 2013

I am agree with BHPatel. The wizard is not very flexible. But after all it worked.
Because I want to migrate only some selected subprojects, I tried out the command line tool...
The analyze step worked fine. After that I added all information that are needed for the migration into the settings.xml.
But the migration did not work. I got the following error:

> VssUpgrade migrate settings.xml

Microsoft (R) Visual SourceSafe Upgrade version 11.0.0.0
for Microsoft (R) Visual Studio 2012
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

ERROR: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.

The english translation of the error is
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object".

I don't know how to get more error information. Any idea or bugfix?

by BHPatel | December 26 2012

The tool is not flexible at all. The tool does not let me pick VSS database below roots level project. In my case I did not wanted to migrate all my applications to TFS. I only wanted to migrate one application out of 10 application. The tool did not let me pick one application.

I did not want to physically log in to VSS server to run the tool. I should be able to use this tool from Client machine and pull the code out of VSS and commit the code to TFS.

I disagree with the approch of the migration used by this tool.

Ed Holloway--MSFT April 30 2013

| Edit |

You can choose a specific folder, and you don't need to run it on your VSS machine

by It Just Works | November 12 2012

I have Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition SP 2. x64 which VSS 2005 is currently running on. I tried to run the wizard and it comes up "The specified program requires a never version of Windows". There doesn't seem to be listed anywhere what the system requires of this Upgrade Tool is (not even in the documentation)?

Ed Holloway--MSFT November 13 2012

| Edit |

Warren - thanks for letting us know - we'll add that to the docs. You can run this from Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Server 2012.

You do not need to run it from the same machine VSS has the repo on, you just need network access to it.

Hope this helps