I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

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Jun 20th, 2005, 10:00 PM
SkiNLaB

I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

I've got Visual Basic 6 Pro Edition... is it meant to come with Visual Source Safe??? If So, WHERE!? :S
Jun 20th, 2005, 10:13 PM
dee-u

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Did you install it?
Jun 20th, 2005, 10:18 PM
baja_yu

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

I think you HAVE to install it, at least I had to. You can not turn the option off.
When you start VB (IDE), go to the Tools menu, at the bottom you have a SourceSafe submenu.
Jun 20th, 2005, 10:19 PM
SkiNLaB

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

I don't know where to install FROM, is it meant to be on the VB6 disc or the MSDN disc, or the Visual Studio 6 'plus pack' (6 discs) or am i missing something...?
Jun 20th, 2005, 10:24 PM
baja_yu

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

It should be one the main disc (with VB), and I think you can not choose not to install it.
Jun 20th, 2005, 10:29 PM
RobDog888

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Depending on your VS version you only have the option to install VSS Server, but I believe you need to do a custom install and
select the VSS component?Itsbeen a while since I have installed VS6.
Jun 20th, 2005, 11:59 PM
SkiNLaB

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Hmmm The only thing I found on the install was 'BackOffice' whatever that is...

maybe professional edition doesn't include source safe..?
Jun 21st, 2005, 12:01 AM
SkiNLaB

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Yeah I don't think I get it :(

Oh well.
Jun 21st, 2005, 12:02 AM
dee-u

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

I dont know if Professional doesnt have a Source Safe option when you install it but Enterprise does have it, if I remember it correctly it might be something you have to choose to be included in the installation...
Jun 21st, 2005, 12:14 AM
RobDog888

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Looks like its only in the Enterprise versions and also as a retail standalone app.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...id=3036&sid=45
Jun 21st, 2005, 06:40 AM
Hack

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

RobDog888 is correct, it only comes with the Enterprise edition.

The quickest way to tell if it available is to go to the Add-In Manager. If VSS is available, and installed, it will be listed there. Then, all you have to do is load it and your machine will be able to use it. Typically, however, VSS is run from a server and that is where the code is actually stored.
Jun 21st, 2005, 04:52 PM
lavarock09

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

when i go to tools, source safe it asks me to login, whats that about?
Jun 21st, 2005, 04:57 PM
dglienna

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Run Source Safe from the start menu, and it will ask you to set up a password and default account. I had bad luck with it in the past, but installed it again anyways. I don't really have much use for it, but if there were multiple people working on the same code, then I'd use it.
Jun 21st, 2005, 05:50 PM
RobDog888

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

You really should use the "Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Admin" utility to create a user name and password. The Admin username has
a blank password by default. You can not log in without Admin or creating a new username.
Jun 21st, 2005, 05:54 PM
RobDog888

Re: I must be retarded, where do I find VSS

Quote:

Originally Posted by dglienna

I don't really have much use for it, but if there were multiple people working on the same code, then I'd use it.

Revision control is very important especially if you are writting programs for a living and can not afford to loose
any code from a crash or a mistake. It also lets you do comparisons between different versions of your code.

I dont see how any professional programmer would not use some kind of revision control. It has saved me a few times
resulting in coultless hours of saved labor. :)

Single user or multi-user, either one, revision control is important.