cannot check out old files   

In VSS 6.0 you could do a show history and checkout an older version. You 
might do this because you worked on a file but forgot to check it out. Then, 
when you check in the file it merges the server and local file --using the 
checked out version as the basis. In VSS.net you can no longer check out old 
files. Atleast you can't when the database is still 6.0, I haven't tried 
upgrading the VSS 6.0 database to .NET.

Has anyone else verified this? Does anyone know a way to do this in VSS.NET?

date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:30:56 -0500   author:   Jamie Fallon am

RE: cannot check out old files   

Hi Jamie,

Do you mean that we use the Check Out button in the show history dialog? I 
tried it and we can still use this button to check out the old version. You 
can do this by showing the history of the project and select one of this 
histories. Furthermore, there is not much difference between VSS 6.0 
database and VSS 8.0.

Kevin Yu
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date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:45:45 GMT   author:   (Kevin Yu [MSFT])

Re: cannot check out old files   

Hi Jamie,

By VSS .NET you mean VSS 2005, is that right?

If yes, you should be able to checkout older versions from history, but only 
when your database settings allow checkout local/older versions.
In SSAdmin, go to Tools/Options/General and unckeck "Only allow checkouts of 
the latest version"

In any case, if you use checkout of older versions, you might find useful a 
new setting in SSExplorer: in Tools/Options/General, "Always checkout the 
working folder version of files". With this turned on, on checkout VSS will 
automatically try to detect which version of the file you have and checkout 
that version (so checkout from history may not be necessary).
-- 
Alin Constantin
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"Jamie Fallon" <jamie.fallon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message 
news:%230Ear7mAGHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> In VSS 6.0 you could do a show history and checkout an older version. You 
> might do this because you worked on a file but forgot to check it out. 
> Then, when you check in the file it merges the server and local 
> file --using the checked out version as the basis. In VSS.net you can no 
> longer check out old files. Atleast you can't when the database is still 
> 6.0, I haven't tried upgrading the VSS 6.0 database to .NET.
>
> Has anyone else verified this? Does anyone know a way to do this in 
> VSS.NET?
>

date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:53:02 -0800   author:   Alin Constantin [MSFT]