{"id":8911,"date":"2007-08-02T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2007\/08\/02\/sourcesafe-2005-update-ctp-available\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:33:13","slug":"sourcesafe-2005-update-ctp-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/sourcesafe-2005-update-ctp-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SourceSafe 2005 Update CTP Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the VS2008 wave of products, we are providing an update to Visual SourceSafe 2005 called a GDR.&nbsp; GDR stands for something like General Distribution Release and it is very much like a service pack.&nbsp; The differences are subtle and I won&#8217;t try to explain them right now.&nbsp; This GDR contains over 57 fixes and includes all customer requested hot fixes and many internally found and fixed issues.&nbsp; It is also designed to make sure that VSS 2005 works well with the VS 2008 wave of products.&nbsp; The update is available for free to all licensed VSS 2005 customers.\nWe have just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the GDR &#8211; ok, the TLAs are getting out of hand now \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; You can read about some of the issues it addresses in the following Knowledge Base article: <span><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/939808\"><font color=\"#800080\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/939808<\/font><\/a>.&nbsp; And you can download the CTP here if you want to try it out: <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=faf41edd-924d-449f-aefc-9c86dd499720&amp;displaylang=en\"><font color=\"#800080\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=faf41edd-924d-449f-aefc-9c86dd499720&amp;displaylang=en<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<span><span>The official release of the VSS 2005 GDR will come this fall.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Brian<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the VS2008 wave of products, we are providing an update to Visual SourceSafe 2005 called a GDR.&nbsp; GDR stands for something like General Distribution Release and it is very much like a service pack.&nbsp; The differences are subtle and I won&#8217;t try to explain them right now.&nbsp; This GDR contains over 57 fixes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Along with the VS2008 wave of products, we are providing an update to Visual SourceSafe 2005 called a GDR.&nbsp; GDR stands for something like General Distribution Release and it is very much like a service pack.&nbsp; The differences are subtle and I won&#8217;t try to explain them right now.&nbsp; This GDR contains over 57 fixes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}