Visual Studio and Source Safe

I had a very strange problem today. I started up Visual Studio and opened one of my projects, only to be told that my source control provider could not be initialised. I had to open my project without integrated source control.

After some online investigation I managed to work out that I needed to re-register SSSCC.DLL (in VSS\Win32 folder) with regsvr32.

The bizarre thing is that it was working fine yesterday when I finished work. All I have done this morning since then is some web browsing, so how the hell did SSSCC become unregistered? very bizarre!

ID Jobsworths part 2

After a considerable break (and after being assured by friends that they had never been asked for ID) I went back to the pub, mentioned in my previous post, a few weeks ago. Sure enough I was not asked for ID this time. On my second visit I was chatting to one of the bar staff and she asked me if I was the one who had sent in the email about not getting in without ID. I said I was and she said that someone had been fired over that (amongst other problems apparently). She also gave me a free drink as an apology. So it seems that some of the staff know good customer relations after all.