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You have to run this tool in the server where SharePoint is installed or into the SharePoint Server with Visual Source Safe 2005 installed and mapped network drive to the VSS Database Folder [ Remote ]. Microsoft doen't allow you to access SharePoint Resources [Except web services] without SharePoint being installed. Which eventually means, if you are not using SharePoint Web Services and using SharePoint API, you need SharePoint installed [or, run it from SharePoint Server]. T hanks. Fazlul From: Tam, Simone [mailto:Simone.Tam@LibertyMutual.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:46 AM To: Fazlul.Chowdhury@gmail.com Cc: Adams, Colin; Lane, Daniel Subject: VSS Importer Tool Hi Fazlul, My name is Simone Tam and I am an intern working for Liberty Mutual Insurance Group's Commercial Markets IT Department. I was assigned the task of migrating a VSS database to SharePoint and I had no idea where to start so I did some research which brought me to your importer tool. We have tri...

VSSImporter is a windows based application to bring the Source Safe Documents into the SharePoint List. This application also keeps track of VSS versions and uploads them as a SharePoint version file. But, we have to turn the SharePoint versioning ON to bring the VSS versions into SharePoint. We should be able to run this application in 32 bit platform. Because, VSS is a 32 bit application where as SharePoint supports 32 bit as well as 64 bit. So, we cannot reference VSS and SharePoint DLLs with different platform settings i.e. 64 bit. Otherwise, you might get the following errors: 1. If 64 Bit Platform Settings is Used in Visual Studio we will get the following error from Interop.SourceSafeTypeLib.DLL or ssapi.dll Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {783CD 4E4-9D54-11CF-B8EE-00608CC9A71F} failed due to the following error: 80040154. 2. If 32 Bit Platform Settings is Used in Visual Studio to reference 64 Bit SharePoint we may get the following error from Microsoft...