SS2XML is a simple set of utilities to extract all the meta-information (not the file contents) from a Visual SourceSafe database and store it in an XML format. This was written primarily to facilitate several types of searches that could not be done directly in SourceSafe. This is a work in progress, but hopefully, you will find it useful.

I'm also working on some SourceSafe administrative tools to help manage user privileges. An early version of this feature is included.

It's Open Source and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Feel free to use it and modify it for your own needs. If you add features, or (especially) if you find bugs, please let me know.

ToDo List

• Write more documentation
• Allow Export by Date Range
• Support Exact Match Searches
• Save / Restore user privileges

Change History

• 0.86 - Made all exports include DOCTYPE declaration and some fixes to the dtds.
• 0.85 - Made sure that ssusers doesn't output status messages in the middle of an XML export to stdout.
• 0.84 - Removed ssadmin.wsf, added ssusers.wsf. ssusers can export user list and project rights to XML.
• 0.821 - Removed "users:" text from ssadmin output.
• 0.82 - Fixed problem with ssadmin.wsf initialization of location object. Previously it would only work if you had also run the ss2xml.wsf export tool.
• 0.81 - Added ssadmin.wsf. Can list users and their rights.
• 0.79 - Added facility to search for the tracking numbers referenced by a set of files.