Before I used to right click on a Wordpad file in the VSS Explorer and
select edit. If i chose the Advanced... button, the dialog box displayed
choices about which program to use for editing the file. Now it just
displays "Allow multiple checkouts, Replace writeable, and set file ...

I recently moved my Visual Studio project (which was
under the control of Visual SourceSafe) to a new
computer.  I moved my project files and VSS database and
kept all directory names the same.  Everything seems to

I have a question about one of the idiosyncrasies of VSS having to do
with the Diff method.  I've observed that if a document, let's say a
Word Document, is open and a diff is attempted, an error message is
displayed stating that the document is already opened.

Ok, I will try this again...
I am using VSS 6d on win2k server (dev box). I have a web application on a
remote host--this host does not have VSS. I do have VSS on my dev box and
want to keep the files under source control locally.

Hi I have successfuly installed The admin tools on our server (Windows
2000), however the box we are using is also used to deliver
Development JSP pages and as such uses Tomcat as the platform. However
when I attemtp to 'select a web server' I get a message back saying

I am developing the VSS Automation tool in .NET.
When i use the Get method of the VSSItem class, the item
is retrieved in the readonly Mode to the destination
directory.

we're using VSS 6.0 on TerminalServer (Win2000). If I take a look
where the information about the VSS-databases is stored to then I can
find them in registry below
"HKEY_LOCAL\Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe\Databases". But on my local

I'm trying to test the analyze process and therefore, have
copied our SourceSafe database to a new location.
When I try to run analyze on this new copy (copied via MS
Exporer), I receive a message that says "The

can anyone provide, or point me to, a quick *basic* tutorial on vss as it
would be used in a vb6 app?
by basic, i mean *really* basic. i've got to start using it tomorrow on a
vb6 app i was just now invited to work on.

Hi group I have been getting troubles with VSS,  all the develop team have
Win 2000,  we work with VB.NET 2003 and we want to control our code with VSS
6.0d  but We've got a lot of  troubles with Win 2000 about the security,
Somebody could help us, with a guide to solve all these ...

My source code is arranged in a tree structure on disk with directories
reflecting logical functionality.
I have just installed VSS 6.0 and am using it with VS 6.0.
When I try to add files to VSS from VS, VSS wants to copy the file to the

We have a lot of tmp file in the history.
How avoid this files ?
I can't suppress the history for these files, and they make history reading
really heavy.

Does anyone know how to pin/unpin files using the API?  Or
recognising whether a file is pinned.
I've already read the article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?

A friend of mine is using VSS 6.0 (build 8163) and his database is around
4GB.
Is there a way to shrink it? Either by compacting or removing older
versions.

While I'm trying to compare two progects(one from VSS
another one from HDD) which have set of different files
(as well as a set of the same files) the result will be
whole set of files. The resulted files have red colour as