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Adding New Project Items or Projects

When working with projects in VSS, you're actually checking out only individual files, not the Visual Studio project file or the Visual Studio solution file. That means any time you add a new item to your projects or you rename an item in your project, you must check out the project file in the solution.

Adding an item is a straightforward task. When you add an item, the project file must be updated with the information about the new file. Because a project file in Visual Studio tracks each item in a project, the VSS database must be notified of your changes. After the normal Add Item dialog pops up and you select the type of item you're adding and give it a name, the Check Out For Edit dialog for the project ...