>I have been going over documentation on Visual SourceSafe to decide if to use or not. One thing is not clear. It says I can take an existing project and put it under source control, creating the source controlled project. Does this mean the project and all of it's files are duplicated? Also, the projects I work on are on a network drive to facilitate a multi-developer environment. How does Visual SourceSafe prevent someone from just accessing the project or one of it's files directly?
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>Any input greatly appreciated as I have to make a decision on this soon.

1) Yes and no. VSS will always contain the most recent copies of all files added to it along with the change history. Developers will not have direct access to these files (they are stored in VSS's internal database) but will instead, work on copies. You can either "get" a copy that is Read-Only or "check out" a copy that is Read-Write.

2) It handles multiple developers by only allowing one developer to "check out" each file for update at a time. You cannot modify the VSS internal database directly because it stores the data in binary format.

-Doug-