Hello,
Can u give me any example that will programatically Check-in ,Check-out files, get Latest Version of a File, connecting to a VSS code etc.
Give me any suggestion that will help me.
Pls if there is any program written, give me the Link.

Thanks in advance
Rupesh Dhore

VSS is available thru COM. You can bring it in with a COM interop and access the various methods you desire.

NAnt is a build tool that has tasks for VSS operations. It's written in .NET and is hosted at sourceforge. You can download the complete source from there.

http://nant.sourceforge.net/

I believe the VSS tasks are in the NAntContrib "add-on" project.

http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/

Another open source .NET based application that interacts with VSS (among other SCM systems) is CruiseControl which is a continuous integration system.

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET

Either of these two should provide you with very solid examples of .NET VSS calls.

-Peter

Thank you Sir firstly for ur quick contribution/reply.
I am quite happy with ur links.
But pls can u help me by giving program, example in C#.Net
I have already included a SSAPI.dll in the references from VSS's Win32 folder.

But I don't know how to connect to the VSS is it by a connection string or something else
Secondly how to take a latest version from the VSS using a button_Click or via any event

Pls help me, give me Wrox's book or any book, a site that has the program.

Thanking you in anticipation

There isn't really a connection string per se, you provide the file path to the database config file. Something like this:

\\myserver\vss\somedatabasefolder\srcsafe.ini

Have you looked at the code for those apps I linked you to? It will have examples of the code necessary for the various VSS operations you want to perform.

-Peter

Sir , this is my present situation, I have suceeded in Checkin, Checkout
Pls help me with How to get latest?
Sir I really respect you and expect to do the needful

This is the view of my VSS
$/
|--DevTemp
| |_____Research
|--QATemp
      |_____Research


DevTemp is for Developers
QA Temp is the latest solution, all deployment is done through this solution.
All changes made by Developer in DevTemp -> Research
are taken Latest in QATemp ->Research

Both the Research folder path are set to E:\Research on local derive

I have added the Source SafeTypeLib;
using SourceSafeTypeLib;

I created VSSDatabse object
IVSSDatabase vdb = new VSSDatabase();
IVSSItem vFile;

I have opened the VSS by open statement on Form_Load
vdb.Open(@"\\dev3\TestDeploy1\srcsafe.ini", "spatil", "spatil");

string s = "$/QATemp/Research/abc.xml"
vFile = vdb.get_VSSItem(s, false);

Check-out can be achieved by
vFile.Checkout("", "E:\\Research\\abc.xml", 0);
this checks out the file abc.xml from QATemp ->Research

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Now comes the MAJOR part
How to get the latest from the DevTemp -> Research?
********************************************

Then Check in can be done by
vFile.Checkin("", "E:\\Research\\abc.xml" + comboBox1.Text, 0);
this checks in’s the file abc.xml to QATemp ->Research

Thus changes are reflected in QATemp ->Research

In the NAntContrib source files that I referenced you will find what you need.

nantcontrib-0.85\src\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTask.cs

Line 208: Item.Get(ref localPath, flags);

Look in the detail of the ExecuteTask method for full details.

-Peter

Thanks Sir that does work.