Please advise what set of parameters one should use to get the latest source
from VSS by the command-line utility (SS.EXE), if the following is required:
- No matter what file versions are in local folders (where to get the latest
source to), they should be overridden by the files ...

  We are facing problem with respect to VSS performance.We do have a Database of size 2.5GB with around 80 project in it.The server is in WAN (Wide Area Network).
  our problem is when ever we are trying to Check out / in set of files it is taking much time.Frankly speaking it ...

First of all, the Microsoft documentation is totally BOGUS!!!!!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176875/
"C:\Program Files\Devstudio\Vss\Win32\SSARC" -v10 -sD:\VSSTest Archive.ssa
$/Queries/Test

I shared project A and called the new shared project as project B.
How do I recursively break shared links in project B, so project B is an
independent
branch on its own.

Does vssver.scc contain username of who checked-out the file?
or else how do I know who performed a GET on a file or folder.
We have buildbox thats accessed by more than one person and there is a need
to findout who checked out the latest at certain times...

when i try to open a file i am getting an error displaying
Error executing: "%ProgramFiles%\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE" "%1"
but if i chouse source safe editor its opening and even doc files are also
opening what is the solution for this.

I've found tidbits of information related to a scripting capability in VSS.  
Can someone direct me to an online reference or possibly a good book on this?

I'm looking to set-up VSS to version our development and staging web sites,
but I'm not sure how. Currently we have three web environments, the
development environment, staging environment, and production environment? How
could I set up the three environments with VSS?

I'm trying to run Analyze and I'm receiving this bizarre error message:
The procedure entry point ?GetString@MSTXT@@SAHPAUMSTXT_Desc@@HPAD@Z could
not be located in the dynamic link library ssapi.dll
(I guess our own error messages are not that bad after all :-)

Is there any alternate way to search 315 files at a time vss alows only 26
files to search at a time the files may be in any project

SourceAnyWhere (SAW) is a VSS remote/internet access (SourceSafe
remote/internet access) tool. It enables you to use Visual SourceSafe easily
over the Internet.  The Profession Edition is empowered with Delta Transfer,
which makes the SAW work much faster in a low-bandwidth ...

i would like to use source safe in the internet.
can this be done?
assaf

Is there a way to hook into VSS via the ActiveX interface to obtain a list of
projects within a VSS database?

This weekend I archived part of an existing VSS database and created a new
database then restored the *.ssa file into the new database.  Engineering
wanted the projects moved around in the new database so I created a couple of
folders and moved all of the projects down a couple ...

For different kind of reasons we like to share type libraries (.tlb
files) among the projects we have, in the same way as normal source and
header files.
Therefore we want to do the following: