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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:35:58+00:00

A question was asked recently about removing SourceSafe integration from Visual Studio 6 .

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A question was asked recently about removing SourceSafe integration from Visual Studio 6. I need to do the same with Visual Studio 2008.

Our team uses Subversion and I have installed AnkhSVN, the Subversion plug-in for VS2008 (some other members of the team use VisualSVN). I find that SourceSafe ‘insists’ on being the integrated source control tool of choice – the setting for source control plug-in in Tools > Options > Source Control seems to reset itself every time VS2008 is closed. This is very annoying and I want to get rid of SourceSafe.

I tried running the VS2008 install with the intention of switching off (effectively uninstalling) the SourceSafe plug-in, but there is no option for it.

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  1. Found it! MS’s Help and Support site describes it, see section 2

    Add a DWORD registry key at:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe\HideInVisualStudio

    Set it to 1. Restart VS2008 and the SourceSafe plug-in option is gone.

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