Why does Microsoft insist that the solution file exist in a folder above all
of the project files?  Our source control structure is:
//root
   common/

Is there any tools that would allow me to import and export to and from VSS
to other repositories (CVS etc, or CS-RCS) and still retain the historical
deltas..

With Mainstream support ending on 30-Jun-2007 and extended support ending on
30-Jun-2009
What will be replacing VSS 6?  Will SourceDepot be released?

I have written an application that use the SourceSafe automation interface.
This program runs as a service and often needs to access a SourceSafe
database via a network share.
In order to do this I have some code that impersonates a user before it

First off sorry for the cross post but there are too many SourceSafe
newsgroups and this issue it important to me.
I am using the automation objects to retrieve a file history from
SourceSafe, quite often but not always I get the following message when

I know I can get the LIST of files that have been changed since a date
or a label, within a project and its sub-projects, using the History
function.
Is there an intelligent way to actually GET those files, in their

The issue I have involves using Visual Studio.Net 2003 and
its integration with Visual SourceSafe 6.0d. The problem
manifests itself by the seeming disappearance of files
that have been checked into SourceSafe through the Visual

I am trying to retrieve a previous version of a fairly
large source file (1.2Mb) over what seems to be a fairly
slow VPN connection.
I can 'view' the most current version of the file within