SourceSafe branching/COM

We're building tools on top of SourceSafe to help manage our projects. We have recently branched in order to support parallel development.

I need to access the branching history of a file (i.e. what you seen when you choose Properties... Paths... or run SS PATHS).

I see that I can access VSSItem.Links through COM - this gives me the share history - but I'd expect there to be a similar function named e.g. VSSItem.Paths.

Does anyone know of a function to access the branching history? Is it something convoluted like pinning in COM? Or am I left to parse the output of SS PATHS?

Any help gratefully received - even if the answer is "no, you can't get at it".

Many thanks,

Renny Barrett

Please send replies to rbarrett@itdesign.ie

I don't think this is possible.

Even I am trying to do the same. To be specific, I want to able to modify Sourcesafe such that when somebody checks in a file without comment, I want it to pop-up a message-box.

How do I do this?

Kush