Opening an Existing SourceSafe Project
If you create a project for the first time using Visual Studio .NET, you''re in control of creating the project in the SourceSafe database. Using the menu options you learned about so far today, you can easily create a new project in SourceSafe based on an existing Visual Studio .NET project.
If you didn''t create the project and you need to create a local version of it to start developing with, you must open the version stored in SourceSafe. To do so:
Select the File, Source Control, Open From Source Control menu option. This dialog box lists the available projects in the VSS database.
You can select the project you want to open, and a local copy is then created for you.
As with the creation of a new SourceSafe project, the project and its files are read-only and are checked in by default when you open a project from source control.