HOWTO: Designate a Visual SourceSafe Project as a Web Project

ID: Q194826

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows versions 5.0, 6.0

SUMMARY

When creating a Web site from a Visual SourceSafe project, some of the information that is asked for is not fully explained.

MORE INFORMATION

The following is a description of what each box on the Web Project tab expects:

This Project represents a Web Site

This is the project that is going to be made into a Web project.

URL

This is the server location where the Web site will be located. This should include:

<LINK TYPE="GENERIC" VALUE="http://"">http://"</LINK>

in front of it. It should be the entire path to the Web site. For example:

http://MyServer/MyDivision/MyProject

Virtual Root

If the project will be accessed from a different, shorter path, add that path here. In IIS, these are known as Virtual Directories; other Web Servers may have something similar that this might work with. You do not add the first "/" for the directory. For example, "MySite" would make this Web site's location be

"<LINK TYPE="GENERIC" VALUE="http://MyServer/MySite".">http://MyServer/MySite".</LINK>

Site map filename

Change the default name of the site map you can create for this site. The default name is SiteMap.htm.

Deployment path

This is where the Web site should be sent. It can contain multiple locations, all separated by commas. They should be ftp addresses or directory paths. Please see the following examples:


   C:\InetPub\Wwwroot\mysite

   \\Server\Wwwroot\mysite

ftp://username:password@www.microsoft.com/mysite

  
   \\Server\Wwwroot\mysite,

ftp://username:password@Myserver

Set Another

This commits the changes for this project and then clears the boxes so that you can set another if you choose. If you click OK, you commit the changes.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbSSafe500 kbSSafe600 kbSSExplorer kbDSupport
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto