>>We are attemping to put Visual SourceSafe in place for use with our projects
>>where I work. Here is my question -- I know it works very well with text
>>documents, but is there any way to use it with the .dbcs, .dbfs, .vcxs, etc
>>in a multiple check out situation? Most of the work we will do will revolve
>>around classes so multiple check outs would be ideal. Any advice would be
>>appreciated.
>Don't use multiple check out with non-text files. Each developer can have a
>read-only copy of the class libraries.

What he said. :-) One trick I used when we had multiple developers working on a DBC was to run GenDBC (or GenDBCx) on the database, and use that checked-out .prg for changes to the database.