Open VSS and select the project you want to work with.
On the Tools menu, click Options, click on the General tab.
• Set
Use visual merge to
Yes – this settings shows all the changes made during a merge.
• Set
Folder for temporary files to
C:\TEMP (or another directory on your hard drive) - Creating the temp folder locally, rather than on a server, may increase VSS performance.
Click on the Local Files tab.
• Set
Compare files by to
Contents – Compares the full contents of your local file to VSS’s copy. This ensures that you really get the latest version of the file when you click on Get Latest Version in the VS.NET IDE.
When retrieving the latest version of a project from VSS you only need to specify the
recursive option. You do not need to select the
Build tree option unless you do not want VSS to store the files in the working folder directory on your local drive.