General Tab (Explorer and Plug-in)

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Displays general properties for the selected item, for example, name and type. The entries on the tab will be different, depending on the type of item selected. This tab is available in both Visual SourceSafe Explorer and the SourceSafe plug-ins in Visual Studio.

Dialog Box Access

In Visual SourceSafe Explorer, on the File menu, click Properties, then click General.

In Visual Studio, on the File menu, click Source Control. Select SourceSafe Properties, then click General.

UI Element List (Files)

  • Auto-detect encoding of local file
    Specifies if file type is to be automatically detected.
  • Comment
    Displays a comment for the current version of the file. You can change the comment, and it can contain up to 4096 characters.
  • Latest
    Specifies the version number and creation date and time for the latest item version.
  • Name
    Specifies the name and path of an item.
  • Report
    Shows a <your report title> dialog box that allows you to send file properties to a printer, a file, or the Clipboard.
  • Size
    Specifies file size and number of lines in a file.
  • Store only latest version
    Specifies whether the database stores all versions of the file, or only the latest version. Storing only the latest version saves disk space.

  • Type
    Specifies the file encoding assigned when you added the file to the database. Possible options are:

    Option Description

    Binary

    Specifies a binary file.

    ANSI (MBCS)

    Specifies ANSI encoding for text.

    Unicode (UTF-8)

    Specifies Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for text.

    Unicode

    Specifies Unicode encoding for text.

    Unicode (Big Endian)

    Specifies Unicode (Big Endian) encoding for text.

UI Element List (Projects)

  • Comment
    Displays a comment for the current version of the project. You can change the comment, and it can contain up to 4096 characters.
  • Contains
    Shows the number of files and subprojects in the project, including any deleted items.
  • Latest
    Specifies the version number and creation date and time for the latest project version.
  • Name
    Specifies the name and path of the project.
  • Report
    Shows a <your report title> dialog box that allows you to send item properties to a printer, a file, or the Clipboard.
  • This project is cloaked for me
    Specifies if cloaking is applied to the project.

See Also

Other Resources

Visual SourceSafe User Interface Reference