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

Using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator

The VSS Administrator enables you to manage users that have access to the SourceSafe databases. Using this tool, you can

• Add, edit, and delete users who have access to the VSS databases
• Change user passwords
• Set user access to read-only
• Lock a VSS database
• Clean up a VSS database and remove temporary files
• Create new VSS databases
• Archive projects
• Restore projects
• Change default application-level defaults, such as multiple checkouts, default project folders, and file type extensions that are allowed to be stored in the VSS databases

Figure 20.1 shows the VSS Administrator open with the Options dialog in the foreground. When you install VSS, two users are added to the database by default: Admin and Guest. The Admin password is blank, and if you're working on a network with multiple developers, you'll most likely want to change this password. On single-developer installation, you can leave the Admin password blank for ease of use. Each time you open a VSS tool, you must enter the username and password.

Figure 20.1 The Visual SourceSafe Administrator.

Depending on the environment you're working in, you might never use this tool. I've used SourceSafe for years in single-developer mode, and I've never opened the Admin tool.

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