The Visual SourceSafe source-control provider is implemented using the SourceSafe OLE Automation interface provided in ssapi.dll. The two versions of ssapi.dll are supported by CrossWorks, they can be identified (using the OLE/COM Object Viewer of Visual Studio) as:
Other versions have not been tested. If you get an error when connecting to the database, try registering the type library using the DOS command regsvr32 ssapi.dll.
The following environment options are supported:
Property | Description |
Exclusive Checkout | If Yes, check outs will be exclusive. |
When connecting to source control, the working directory of the SourceSafe root $ is used to initially set the file mappings. Subsequently, the provider will not change the working directory of SourceSafe or refer to it for operations.
In general, all CrossWorks source-control operations map directly to SourceSafe operations with default flag behavior.
The Add To Source Control operation will create SourceSafe projects, if they don't exist.
Source-control operations are performed one file at a time, there are no recursive SourceSafe project operations.