Viewing the History of a File in SourceSafe
After you've started working with files in SourceSafe, you might need to view the history of a particular project or file. All the available SourceSafe commands are readily available by selecting the Source Control menu item from the File menu. The History menu item displays the history for the selected item in the Solution Explorer. In Figure 20.14, the Form1.vb file is selected in the Solution Explorer, and its history is shown in the History dialog box.
Figure 20.14. Viewing a file's history with the History dialog box.

In this dialog, you can choose to roll back a version, get the latest version of a file, check out the file, get a report in the history, or view the SourceSafe version of the file.Because the Form1.vb file is checked in, the copy that's in the Solution Explorer is the same as the SourceSafe version. If you need to check the actual SourceSafe version of the file in the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you can click the View button. When you click View, you have the option of viewing the file in Notepad, the SourceSafe viewer, or Visual Studio .NET. Figure 20.15 shows the Form1.vb file being viewed in the IDE from the actual version stored in SourceSafe.
Figure 20.15. Viewing a SourceSafe file in the Visual Studio .NET IDE.

Notice that the tab for this file says sst69.vb. This is a temporary file that SourceSafe creates to allow the file to be viewed outside its database. To make the process of file comparisons and viewing faster, all the temporary files that are created by checking files in and out of the VSS database are stored in your solution's folder.
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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.