You receive an error message when you get a file from a project label by using OLE automation (196197)

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In the Visual SourceSafe Explorer, you can retrieve a particular version of a file based on a project label by viewing the history of that file, selecting the inherited project label, and clicking Get. Alternatively, you can specify the file and the label from the command line.

You can use the following sample Visual Basic code to accomplish the same task by using OLE automation, assuming that the database you are trying to access is in the Visual SourceSafe 6.0 format:

Dim objVSSDB As VSSDatabase
   Dim objVSSFile As VSSItem
   Dim objSpecificVer As VSSItem

   Set objVSSDB = New VSSDatabase

   ' Assign values to the Open method parameters.
   objVSSDB.Open srcsafeini, username, password

   ' Sets file.txt to the object variable.
   Set objVSSFile = objVSSDB.VSSItem("$/Project1/file.txt", False)

   ' Sets the version of file.txt associated with ProjectLabel.
   Set objSpecificVer = objVSSFile.Version("ProjectLabel")
   objSpecificVer.Get "c:\Project1\file.txt"
				

When you access objects in a Visual SourceSafe 5.0 database, you need to add one more line of code. In the above sample, when the objSpecificVer object is set, the .VersionNumber property contains the correct version number of the File.txt based on the project label, assuming that a valid label is sent to the .Version property, but it still contains an invalid object. To work around this, add the following line of code just after you set objSpecificVer and just before you execute the Get method. For example:

   Set objSpecificVer =
   objSpecificVer.Version(objSpecificVer.VersionNumber)
				

This line sets objSpecificVer explicitly by using its own .VersionNumber property, from which the .Version property successfully returns a valid object.