Mounting a Visual Source Safe Directory

Before you can mount a Visual Source Safe (VSS) filesystem, you need to install VSS on your system. VSS is not provided with the IDE.

  1. Choose Versioning Mount Generic Version Control System from the main window.
  2. In the Version Control System combo box in the Customizer dialog box, choose the VSS configuration for your platform (or for the platform most closely matching yours).
  3. In the Working Directory field, type or browse to the directory where you would like to store local files.
  4. Set the User Name to your VSS user name.
  5. Ensure that the VSS Command points to the whole path of your ss.exe executable.
  6. Set the VSS Project to the desired project directory (for example $/ or $/Current/Project).
  7. In the SSDIR field, set the SSDIR environment variable to point to the appropriate srcsafe.ini file on your VSS server.
See also
Mounting a Directory With Version Control
Mounting a CVS Filesystem
Mounting a PVCS Directory
VCS Command Properties
Variables in VCS Commands
Calling Version Control Commands

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