Article ID: 304539
Article Last Modified on 8/11/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q304539
SYMPTOMS
When you are attempting to deploy a labeled version of a SourceSafe web project, use of ss deploy returns "Version not found" and does not deploy the files.
RESOLUTION
Use the ss get command with the -gl (to specify the deployment path) and -vl (to specify the labeled version) switches to deploy to a drive or UNC path. For example:
ss get $/"<project name>" -vl"<test label>" -gl"<deployment path>"
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
- Create a project named Projecta in Visual SourceSafe.
- Add files to the project.
- Use the Admin utility to designate Projecta as a Web project (go to the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Web Projects tab) and set the deployment path to C:\test.
- Add a label "testlabel" to Projecta.
- From the Vss/Win32 folder run the command line:
ss deploy $/Projecta -vltestlabel
REFERENCES
For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
169260 HOWTO: No Command Line Equivalent for Some Web Features
240052 HOWTO: Specifying a VSS Database Using the Command Line
Keywords: kbbug kbssexplorer kbpending KB304539