What's New with Visual SourceSafe 6.0

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Microsoft VSS 6.0 has many new features, including:

• Archive and Restore — These operations can now be performed from a user-friendly VSS Administrator wizard. In previous versions of VSS, Archive and Restore were only available from the command line.
  
  
• Move files — When you move a file, VSS now automatically shares the file to a new project, deleting it from the original project. In the new project, the file appears as shared.
  
  
• Compare differences in multiple projects — This feature allows you to compare differences in a project against another project.
  
  
• Deploy individual files — In earlier versions of VSS you could only deploy a folder; using the new wizard, you can now deploy a file as well.
  
  
• Fast Get — Because of VSS's improved capabilities, you can perform a Get two times faster than in older versions of VSS.
  
  
• Filter history information — You can now view history of files and projects without including labels.
  
  
• Label promotion — This feature allows you to promote or add a file to an existing label.
  
  
• Clean temporary folder option — This feature allows you to easily clean temporary folders now.
  
  
• Check external hyperlinks — In previous versions of VSS only internal hyperlinks and jumps within the project were checked. Now VSS allows you to check hyperlinks and jumps outside the project.
  
  
• Create desktop shortcuts to VSS databases (from VSS Explorer) — This feature allows you to create a shortcut on your desktop that opens a specified VSS database.
  
  
• HTML Help — Previous versions of VSS used WinHelp.