Using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator
The VSS Administrator enables you to manage users that have access to the SourceSafe databases. Using this tool, you can
- Add, edit, and delete users who have access to the VSS databases
- Change user passwords
- Set user access to read-only
- Lock a VSS database
- Clean up a VSS database and remove temporary files
- Create new VSS databases
- Archive projects
- Restore projects
- Change default application-level defaults, such as multiple checkouts, default project folders, and file type extensions that are allowed to be stored in the VSS databases
Figure 20.1 shows the VSS Administrator open with the Options dialog in the foreground. When you install VSS, two users are added to the database by default: Admin and Guest. The Admin password is blank, and if you're working on a network with multiple developers, you'll most likely want to change this password. On single-developer installation, you can leave the Admin password blank for ease of use. Each time you open a VSS tool, you must enter the username and password.
Figure 20.1. The Visual SourceSafe Administrator.

Depending on the environment you're working in, you might never use this tool. I've used SourceSafe for years in single-developer mode, and I've never opened the Admin tool.
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.