Visual SourceSafe Administrator

You can use Visual SourceSafe Administrator to

• Set up and remove users of Visual SourceSafe and set their Visual SourceSafe passwords.

• Assign rights to users of Visual SourceSafe for specific projects or in general.

• Set options for Visual SourceSafe projects.

• Archive and restore Visual SourceSafe projects in specific Visual SourceSafe databases.

• Set options for the general behavior of Visual SourceSafe.

To answer SourceSafe-related questions in Visual Basic, you will need to know about some of these administrative functions:

• Archiving and restoring VSS databases
• Restoring a Visual SourceSafe Project from Archive
• Using Visual SourceSafe Administrator to Set Up and Maintain Users
• Visual SourceSafe Explorer
• Creating a New Project Folder in Visual SourceSafe
• Adding Files to a Visual SourceSafe Project
• Setting the Working Folder for a Project

See Also

• Implementing Source-Code Control with Visual SourceSafe
• The Visual SourceSafe Database
• Archiving and restoring Visual SourceSafe databases
• 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