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Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multi-user skills.
This article assumes that you are familiar with using the client and server
side capabilities of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. For more information
about Visual SourceSafe, please refer to the "Visual SourceSafe User's
Guide" or the Help topics available from the Visual SourceSafe menu.
Visual SourceSafe allows sharing of projects among developers so that a
team of individuals can make changes and share application development.
The ability to share projects is not enabled by default when you set up the
server components for SourceSafe. You must explicitly enabled this
functionality.
If you try to check out a project that another developer has checked out
and the Allow Multiple Checkouts option has not been enabled in SourceSafe,
you may receive the following error message:
File $/<file name> is currently checked out by <user name>
-or-
The Check Out option on the SourceSafe Integration menu may be dimmed and
unavailable. This behavior indicates that the SourceSafe server application
has not been configured to allow project sharing.