VSS and complex application   

I am trying to set up what will eventually be a large and complex
application in VS2005 and VSS2005.

I will have several solutions that contain projects that are libraries
that will be used by other solutions.

There are also a large number of solutions that contain projects that
will generate .exe files, and each of these needs to reference a
subset of the library solution projects.

For example, Solution A contains projects that reference only
themselves.  Solution B contains projects that reference themselves
plus projects in Solution A.  This works fine.

Solution C references projects in A and B.  Solutions D, E, F, etc.
also reference projects in A and B.  There are no references between
C, D, etc.

I thought what would work for me is the Partitioned Single Solution
Model <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998208.aspx>, but
after playing with I can't get it to work.

The example in the above link shows all references to projects from
other solutions as downstream references - references to contained
solutions.  I think the problem I have is caused by my project
references not all being downstream references.  In terms of the
example in the above link, the Solution containing C, F and G would
have references to D and H.

In my case the library solutions (A, B) are not contained in any of
the .exe solutions (C, D, E, etc.).  And when I try to add one of the
.exe solutions to VSS, I get a "File could not be mapped to the
SourceSafe project" error from VSS.

I suspect this means that I can not run VSS from inside Visual Studio.
Am I correct?  Is there someway to make this work?

date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:32:00 -0800   author:   Jack Jackson