Currently we are setting up the proper team environment and all necessary procedures to start our main project of the year. We’ve been looking through and studying many to get ready for that including Visual Source Safe which is one of the requirements for team project.

Personally I hate VSS and I prefer not to work with it as much as possible. There are lots of personal reasons for that one of which is I do not like working with team which always mess up my schedules, another is VSS is a big pain to work with. Anyway I can’t complain since we all be using that a lot so I tried to familiarize and learn it as much as I can. I’ll be posting some notes on VSS as I study in coming week. Here is the first lots.

Creating a VSS Database

• From VSS Administrator panel > Tools > Create Databases
• Browse to a directory where you want to place your VSS DB (If you are saving your DB on the server then you need to map the drive before choosing the mapped drive)
• Click on “Ok” and it will create new VSS DB in the specified location.
• More options can be set on your Db by selecting Tools > options
• You may wish to add team members/users of the db by creating new users to your db.
• The VSS Db folder now contains:
  • Data folder
  • Temp folder
  • Users folder
  • srcsafe.ini and
  • users.txt

For the purpose of this demo, I’ll be using D:\ for all my project files.
Good readings from MSDN Library:
ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/dnbda/html/tdlg_ch6.htm
ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/guides/html/vstskworking_folders.htm

By default, once you create web applications/services, the project files are saved in Inetpub > wwwroot directory.

To move from default location to your own project directory you must:

1. first, set up the folder in required directory,
2. Create Virtuary Directory using IIS to point to your folder,
3. Using VS.net create new web application with the same virtuary directory name you created in Step 2.

The new project now will be saved in the folder you speficied rather than in default wwwroot folder. This makes it alot easier to manage your project files and better work folder organization.

Welcome to Mayvelous.com. This is my very first post and I hope to start my blogging here.
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Good evening to you all.
May.