The Add Files dialog in Visual Source Safe 2005 changed from a specific VSS version to the more common file selection dialog. Unfortunately this is totally impractical when working with source control day to day. Once you have a source control folder set up with a large number of files, adding a new file to source control shows all the files currently in the directory. The previous version only showed the files that weren’t already in source control. This made it easy to add new files as the list was pre-filtered to what the user needed given their current action.
Fortunately there is a mechanism to get back to the older dialog. Just set Classic_Dialogs = yes in the srcsafe.ini file (see this forum post for the source of this info). The classic dialog does have problems. Its not resizable! This is truly annoying when dealing with lots of new files or long file names. Man I can’t stand fixed size dialogs - especially when they need to show information that varies in size. Note that I’m still using VSS for source control for most products and projects. It works well given the number of concurrent developers that need to access the code, so there is no need to change in the short term.