Question

I faced a problem in Visual studio 2008.When i click on Sorce Control Explorer(Views-> Other Windows-> Source control Explorer)
The IDE was not responding.

So i googled and got a solution here(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952102).

The cause was ” The problem is the vssprovider.dll failed to load.”

And the solution was

Remove vssprovider.dll from the list of packages to skip by running:

devenv.exe /resetskippkgs

I implemented this solution and it worked.

But i have few questions here

1) what is this command actually doing ? Is that the right way to to remove vssprovider.dll .

2) Will this afffect the devolopment in future and throw some unexpected error/behavour in IDE ?

3) what is the role of vssprovider.dll ?

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

SNA

Answer 1

1. You had Visual Source Safe source control provider set as default, while not having VSS installed. This command removed the non-existant provider from loading.
2. No, you just removed a non-exitsing entry
3. It’s a connector to Visual Source Safe version control system.