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Q234865: MOD2000: Setting Up VBE/VSS for Multiuser Development

Article: Q234865
Product(s): Microsoft SourceSafe
Version(s): ; WINDOWS:6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta kbOffice2000 modSSafe
Last Modified: 02-MAY-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Office 2000 Developer 
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, version 6.0 
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SUMMARY
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The Visual Basic Editor integration with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe allows
multiple developers to collaborate on a VBA project. To enable multiuser
development, you must install Visual SourceSafe correctly on all development
(client) computers and on the Visual SourceSafe server.

MORE INFORMATION
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In a multiuser development environment, the Visual SourceSafe database is on one
computer that is called the server, and each developer has a local installation
of the Visual SourceSafe client.

To set up Visual SourceSafe for multiuser development, follow these steps:

1. Install Visual SourceSafe on the server. Run the Visual SourceSafe Setup
  program from the Other Developer Applications option of Microsoft Office 2000
  Developer Tools Setup.

2. In Setup, when you are prompted, click the Shared Database Server option, and
  make sure you install the program to a folder on the server.

3. Share the folder in which you installed the program and make sure that all
  users have the correct permissions to the share.

For additional information about network permissions, click the article number
below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q131022 INFO: Required Network Rights for the SourceSafe Directories

4. From each development computer (client), run Netsetup.exe, which is located
  in the install folder on the server. This installs a Visual SourceSafe client
  that accesses the database on the server for each user. After the
  installation is finished, run the Visual SourceSafe Explorer on the client,
  and then close it.

5. Also, on each development computer, install the Developer Addins and ActiveX
  Controls from the Office 2000 Developer Tools option of the Microsoft Office
  2000 Developer Tools Setup.

REFERENCES
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For more information about installing Visual SourceSafe, in the Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe Administrator, click Contents on the Help menu, type "installation"
(without the quotation marks) on the Index tab, and then click one of the topics
that appear.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbdta kbOffice2000 modSSafe 
Technology        : kbSSafeSearch kbOfficeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbOffice2000Search kbOffice2000 kbSSafe600 kbOffice2000DevSearch
Version           : :; WINDOWS:6.0
Issue type        : kbhowto

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