Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 2005

I am having a problem when I try to connect to my Sourcesafe database online through http. I followed the instructions, and everything seems to be configured correctly, but when I try to access sourcesafe through visual studio on my computer, I will go through the add sourcesafe database wizard, and then I continue to get the error message "The sourcesafe web service cannot be accessed at the specified address". It then says that the server returned the following error: A Connection with the server could not be established (0x80072EFD). I was hoping someone would have some pointers as what I need to check or reconfigure to get this opperational.

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Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 2005

Amos Soma
Hi..

I want to ask if u can explain some practical approach for using Visual Studio 2005 with Visual SourceSafe 2005 for developing ASP.Net 2.0 project Thanks.
Damir Dobric
Can you give me the link to the instructions you followed to enable VSS internet so that I could see if there is something that you are missing

Stuff you could also check is:

1. IIS is installed on server machine

2. Virtual directory for SourceSafe Upload folder have read and write access

3. VSS Internet is enabled using VSS Administrator.

4. ASP .NET 2.0 is used

5. Shared directory for VSS database has full control permissions set for you. Also in the Security tab of the directory's properties (ACLs) have full control for you

Some threads that I have found with error code 0x80072EFD:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=466736&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=75976&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=4004&SiteID=1
Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 2005

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