I have lost all my code changes for July.  I check out and in everyday on
this project.  I used to be able to bring up the history and see all
different dates of checking in/out.  Now when I bring up the history I only
see the last date I checked in /out and the June date when I ...

I'm sort of new to source safe, only been using it for a few weeks. I'm the
only develop on the project I'm working on, yet I have to use it (don't
ask).
I just had a half hour's work blown away because source safe decided that it

Background: I have been using Visual SourceSafe locally and through a network
share (over a VPN) for over a year. When setting up a new project with a
different customer, I set it up using a network share and checked in my
files, but the next day the share stopped working and ...

I'm in trouble with Visual Source Safe and .Net 2003.
The fact is that I have two different solutions like that:
- SolutionA composed by ProjectA and MyClassLibrary
- SolutionB composed by ProjectB and MyClassLibrary (the same as the

Here's the way I want to verify MyProject:
1. Checkin MyProject.
2. On my local hard drive, rename MyProject to MyProject.20060824
3. Do a GetLatest of MyProject back to c:\MyProject.

When someone else iin our development team deletes a file from
SourceSafe, the files then show on my in my Visual Studio 2005 IDE as
"Newly added file".  It's a pain.  I'd rather they be removed from my
box.  Is there a way to handle this more automatically?

I have projects in VS05 and VSS
I setup with directory structures like this
SolutionName
  Code   (.sln file)

Whenever I open an existing .Net web project that is in VSS, I receive
the infamous "The solution appears to be under source control etc."
error message. Thus I tried to keep things simple by creating a brand
new project in Visual Studio, and then selecting File - Add Solution to

I'm trying to install VSS2006 on a 64 bit Enterprise Server 2005 system with
IIS working nicely. It also has SQL 205 and the concomitant Visual Studio 8
install.
I see in the release notes that it won't instal on IA64 but that implies

A week and a half ago I was bemoaning the label support in VSS from an
automation perspective. However, I now have a partial solution.
Bear in mind that as a contractor, I work on differing systems from an ideal
setup, generally I have little control over the environment, so ...

I have an IVSSItem which I get back from a call to Version which I passed a
VT_DATE variant to. If I ask for the version number of the file, I get
0xcccccccc returned in the long (I set it to -1 before calling get_Version)
and if I try and do a Get on the item, I get the HR ...

VSS: 6.0d
I have a large project tree, where different branches have had labels
applied to them. For example, projectA has a number of 'Project A vn.n.n'
labels, and projectB has, similarly 'Project B vn.n.n' labels. There is also

Is there any way or utility to get list of users in VSS with their
rights on individual folder.

What is a MSSCCPRJ.SCC file and what should I do if file doesn't create
itself from remote computer?
Am using sourcegear client

When I do a History > Show differences on Web.Config, VSS reports that it is
a Binary file.
What can I do to compare the revisions as text?