Use Labeling for Your Versions of Software
Instead of relying on these internal version numbers that SourceSafe assigns to files, you will most likely want to create your own "label" for a set of code that defines a release for your software. A release could be your first beta milestone, your first version of the product, an incremental release, or the second, or third release of a product.
Each file will get its own internal version number, and depending on how often a file is modified, these numbers will never match up across a whole project. So instead you can apply your own label to a complete project to identify all of the files checked in at the point in time when you create this label.
You might create a label (up to 31 characters) with the text: "1.0," "2.01b," "Final Beta," or "Approved for QA." After you apply a label, you can retrieve all the files associated with this label from the History dialog box. While individual files can be labeled, you will most likely find that you will apply labels at the project level. When you label a project with a descriptive text string, all the files in that project and subproject inherit the label.
You may label a project at any point in your development cycle. For example, with each "release" of your product, whether in alpha, beta, or final production code, you will most likely wish to place a label on all of the project artifacts at that time. As you continue to develop, if you ever need to get the source code from beta 1.0, then you can do that. You can rename labels if you wish, without affecting any of the source files.
To create a label, click the Project folder in the VSS Explorer tool that you wish to label. Click File | Label... from the menu, and you will see a dialog as shown in Figure 14. After entering a descriptive label name and a comment telling what this label is used for, click OK to apply the label to this project and all files and subfolders under this project.
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