Adding Files to a Visual SourceSafe Project

Before you can use a Visual SourceSafe project, you must indicate which files the Visual SourceSafe database will store in the project. To add files to a Visual SourceSafe project, follow these steps:

STEP BY STEP
2.5 Adding Files to a Visual SourceSafe Project

1. Select the folder of the project that you want to add files to.

2. Choose File, Add Files from the menu.

3. In the resulting Add File dialog box, browse to and select the files that you want to add to the project. You can either add files one at a time with the Add button, or you can select several simultaneously with the mouse and the Ctrl key, and then click Add (see Figure 2.13).
   
   
   FIGURE 2.13 - Adding files to a project folder.

4. Click Close on the Add File dialog box. SourceSafe will give you the chance to add a comment, and then you will see the newly added files in the right-hand pane of Visual SourceSafe Explorer (see Figure 2.14).
   
   
   FIGURE 2.14 - Newly added files under a SourceSafe project.

• Creating a New Project Folder in Visual SourceSafe
• Adding Files to a Visual SourceSafe Project
• Setting the Working Folder for a Project
• Checking Out, Checking In, and Getting Working Copy
• Source-Code Labeling and Version Numbers
• Source-Code Sharing
• Source-Code Branching
• Pinning an Earlier Version of a File for Use in the Current Version of a Project
• Merging Two Different Versions of a File