I think this is very regular requirement and solution must
be very easy.. but unfortunately I'm not able to find out
in existing documentation or tools.
I need to backup (Archive) my VSS database on regular

Hi Dears,
I want to know What deference between Visual Source Safe
6.0d and Visual Source Safe 6.0c?
In other words, I want to know the benefits of Visual

I'm receiving the following error when attempting to checkin the setup
project for my VB.Net application:
"The project that you are attempting to add to source control may
cause other source control users to have difficulty opening this

We have done several ASP.NET projects at our company, and have never been
able to resolve an issue concerning team development and VSS.
With VS.NET, the project file (.csproj/.vbproj) resides in the web
directory. It keeps track of all files added to the project, and by

All,
I finished on first release of a project (MyProj). So I branched a
MyProj V1.0. I set both working folder to the same folder on C drive.
What I expected is that if I do a get latest from V1.0. I should be

We are going to migrate the websites we develop from a
server with NT4/IIS4 to another server with 2000/IIS5. We
are developing in Visual Interdev 6 and we use Visual
Sourcesafe 6 for version control.

Not being a 'real' developer and a normal user of VSS, I did a get
latest of a project - call it 'Version 1' and then played with it to
try out some ideas I had....
Well my changes all worked well and now we want to release my modified

Hey there
Assume you have a fileserver with a SS database storing cca 500MB of mostly
binary data.
What are the typical bottlenecks (on server side) of the "get latest"?

The admin tool does not display who is logged into the
VSS repository or not.  
If using the VSS explorer (while using the admin tool at
the same time) to connect to the repository, you can see

I have created a maintanence project in order to fix bugs
on a released version without interfering with normal
development. However I have encountered a problem, I cant
branch a file that is checkout in the origninal project.

We use keyword expansion and this causes a large volume
of files having conflict during merge branches.
During merge or diff, is there any way to exclude keyword
expansion via VSS Explorer or command-line ?

Read your reply but I cannot work out how to execute "GET"
on the label. When I open up history, I push the get
button, but no place to enter a label.
Also any way to use dates instead of labels?

Hi, All,
We are only two-member team, and thinking to purchase MS Visual
SourceSafe. I got on CDW's web site to get info but it lists array of
products with variaty levels (A, B, C...). Confused, and called CDW,

as to decide this problem?

Does anyone know how I can write a simple program to iterate the VSS
databases and provide me a list of the files that are NOT checked in, and
WHO has them checked out???
TIA!