I have installed Visual SourceSafe Standalone version on my W2K and want
to reinstall or change installation to Shared Database Server version.
Is there an easy way or must I remove old installation an make a new
installation with Shared Database Server version?

We have upgraded our VSS to version 6.0d obtained from MSDN Subscription
site, and we found that when we offer a Get Command from the command line
utility, it reports version not found for some destroyed files / projects.
I searched the web and someone point me to this article

We've had VSS installed on our network at work for 3 or 4 years now. I
need to access the database as an admin, and I know there's a tool for
that. Can anyone tell me how to load the VSS admin tools onto my pc from
Visual Studio 6 cd's?

Hi, I installed VS2K5 Beta 2 with VSS 8.
I read doc about how create a database. I create one in a c:\vss folder.
My problem is connecting VS2K5 with VSS8. When I select Add Web File to
Source Control the Connect to Team Fundation Server dialog appear. I

We have a project usually checked out by a few developers.  Each developer
may add files or components into the project, which means she/he has to check
out the project file.  The project is messed up after VSS merges all the
check-in project files.  What is the best way to ...

I'm Running VSS 6.0d with VS 2003...
ARRRRGGGHHH!!!
Could someone POSSIBLY ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN to me why it is that every time I
try to add a solution to SS from within the Visual Studio IDE the SS tree is

Please give download link for planning and deployment guide for visual source
safe 6.0 or 2005

Intermittently, we've had a strange error message in VSS.
During a 'get latest', we'll sometimes get a messagebox that says...
File "\\OurServer\Development\OurApplication\Data\r\rwsaaaaa.b" not found
When we click OK on the messagebox, it continues.   Though one remote user

I am new to using VSS, as are the other developers in my group. We recently
started using it for our .NET projects, mostly ASP.NET apps.  
The VSS db I'm using is on a remote server. We sometimes work remotely via
the company VPN.  When we do, opening our VS.NET projects seems ...

Does anyone know why my Source Control menu in Visual Studio .Net 2003 is
completely dimmed out. I have VSS 6 installed and working. I have access to
the repository. I have a complete install of VS 2003, same as others I work
with. Others here have the same software and it works ...

I have C++ source files in a project that's under source control with
Visual Source Safe. Is there any way to add those files to another
project from within the Visual C++ IDE by getting them directly from
VSS, or do I have to reference the file from the project directory?

I work on the IT / Operations side and would like to help our developers get
a deployment setup in VSS working.  Any tips or links on this subject would
be helpful.
Thanks,

I am using VSS 6 and Visual Studio 2003.  We do check in/check out of
files from within Visual Studio.
I would like to know if it is possible to share a project using Visual
Studio.  Basically we want to be able to work on two version at the

I am running VSS 6.0d on Windows, to control Unix source files.  My
working directory is on Solaris Unix, accessed via Samba.  The working
directory is mounted on my Windows box using "Mount network drive", and
VSS knows it by drive letter.  If I check in a Unix source file, then

I had issues connecting Visual Interdev with VSS and I posted before
describing issues that I am facing and did not get any answer. I thought that
I should do some more investigations on the configuration of Front Page
Server Extensions since Visual Interdev uses FPSE to connect ...