VSS 2005 and Access 2003   

I've just set up Visual SourceSafe 2005 (server-based) to do source control 
on my Access 2003 (Access 2000 file format) front-end application. I was very 
impressed with how easy it was to add my project to VSS. 

I labelled the production version of the application, then proceeded to 
delete some objects that were no longer wanted in the next version. I checked 
out and changed various objects, such as forms and modules, and checked them 
in. I then re-labelled all files as the newest beta version.

Before going too far, I thought I should confirm how I would extract an 
older version of the code "just in case". I don't want to rollback and lose 
all the changes I've made, but I am under the impression I should be able to 
share all files labelled as the production version, and use that to create a 
new copy of the database? And, if any minor changes need to be made, branch, 
fix and merge back into the latest version.

But when I follow the "share, pin and branch operations" section from the 
help file "Maintain Multiple Versions of a Project", no matter what I do, I 
always get "Version not found". Based on some things I read online, I 
restored the deleted files, but it made no difference.

Can someone explain to me the proper way to build an Access database from an 
older version of source-controlled code?

Thanks,
Lee Anne

date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:01 -0800   author:   Lee Anne

RE: VSS 2005 and Access 2003   

Problem was due to labelling files instead of the complete project.

"Lee Anne" wrote:

> I've just set up Visual SourceSafe 2005 (server-based) to do source control 
> on my Access 2003 (Access 2000 file format) front-end application. I was very 
> impressed with how easy it was to add my project to VSS. 
> 
> I labelled the production version of the application, then proceeded to 
> delete some objects that were no longer wanted in the next version. I checked 
> out and changed various objects, such as forms and modules, and checked them 
> in. I then re-labelled all files as the newest beta version.
> 
> Before going too far, I thought I should confirm how I would extract an 
> older version of the code "just in case". I don't want to rollback and lose 
> all the changes I've made, but I am under the impression I should be able to 
> share all files labelled as the production version, and use that to create a 
> new copy of the database? And, if any minor changes need to be made, branch, 
> fix and merge back into the latest version.
> 
> But when I follow the "share, pin and branch operations" section from the 
> help file "Maintain Multiple Versions of a Project", no matter what I do, I 
> always get "Version not found". Based on some things I read online, I 
> restored the deleted files, but it made no difference.
> 
> Can someone explain to me the proper way to build an Access database from an 
> older version of source-controlled code?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lee Anne

date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:42:00 -0800   author:   Lee Anne