Working with SourceSafe

[Thomas French]

Is there any way to make my applications that I build check in/out, get, or just generally work with SourceSafe. My goal is to make my program handle working with SourceSafe like VB does. I've been doing it by creating a batch file with command line SS commands and then looping until the batchfile is done running, but this is ineffecient and forces all file names to be dos compatable. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.


thanks


Tom

[Chris Eastwood]

Hi


I seem to remember Visual Source Safe having an exposed COM object model that you can work with using VB (CreateObject / Setting References etc) - Check the VB Books-On-Line that came with VB - otherwise I'll check when I get into work tomorrow.


Regards


Chris Eastwood


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[Thomas French]

So if you have any more 411, please let me know.

[Chris Eastwood]

Hi Thomas


I couldn't get my Books-on-line CD working today - I'll have to get another copy from one of the other developers,


but


I did find a reference to some sample programs written in VB at


http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/downloads/samples.asp


These may help you find your way through the object model (I remember looking at it ages ago in V4 (i think) - it did look like pretty straightforward stuff.


Regards


Chris Eastwood


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[Tomsan]

I think I saw this post a bit late.

Working with Visual Source Safe Is a necessary evil. Instead of going to DOS and Checking in and checking out from VB you can select the relevant files from Visual Source Safe (/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Visual Source Safe 6.00 ). This is definitely faster and better.