Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
    • Introducing Visual SourceSafe
    • Installing VSS
    • Using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator
    • Using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer
    • Creating Your First VSS Project
    • Using the Integrated SourceSafe Tools in Visual Studio .NET
    • Viewing the History of a File in SourceSafe
    • Opening an Existing SourceSafe Project
    • Adding New Project Items or Projects
    • Renaming Projects or Project Items
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Installing VSS

The installation for VSS isn't integrated into the normal Visual Studio .NET installation process, so you must find the additional CD labeled Visual SourceSafe 6.0c, which is included with the Visual Studio .NET CD-ROMs. After you find the CD and start the setup process, you can choose from the three installation types in the following list:

• Shared Database Server Setup Option— This installation option installs the VSS database as a shared database and copies the appropriate client tools to the shared server. When this installation is complete, you must install the VSS client tools that give you access to the shared database. This option is normally used in any team development environment. The NetSetup.exe file that's installed with a shared database server installation is what you'd use to install the client tools on the other developers' desktops.
• Custom Setup Option— The custom setup installation option should be used only if you don't want VSS to integrate into the Visual Studio .NET IDE. By choosing the custom setup option, you can enable or disable this feature. This option should be used only if you don't want any of the VSS features available in Visual Studio .NET, which defeats the main purpose of using VSS as a developer!
• Stand-Alone Setup Option— The stand-alone setup option creates a private database on a single machine to be used for source code control. This installation option is useful if you're a developer who works alone, and you want to use source code control in your projects. You must make sure that you manually back up the VSS database if you choose this option because a catastrophic failure of your hard drive will kill the VSS database.

After you've installed VSS, a new Microsoft Visual VSS program group is created that contains all the external tools that you can use to manage your VSS databases.

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