Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Automation

Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Automation
Tim Winter
Microsoft Corporation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb509341%28v%3DVS.80%29.aspx

September 1998

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Summary: Discusses the Automation interface exposed by Microsoft? Visual SourceSafe? version 6.0. Written from the perspective of the Microsoft Visual Basic? programmer and includes code snippets written in Visual Basic version 5.0. (67 printed pages)

Contents
Introduction
Terms and Expressions
Trapping SourceSafe Events
IVSSEventHandler Interface
VSSApp Object
Trapping SourceSafe Events—An Overview
Putting It All Together—Trapping Visual SourceSafe Events
Setting Up the Visual Basic Development Environment
Writing the Code
Driving a SourceSafe Database
VSSCheckOut Object
VSSDatabase Object
VSSFileStatus
VSSFlags (Flags Used within Automation)
VSSItem Object
VSSItemType Constants
VSSRights Constants
VSSUser Object
VSSVersion Object
Error Messages
Putting It All Together—Driving a SourceSafe Database
Setting Up the Visual Basic Development Environment
Writing the Code

Introduction