downloading files into visual studio from visual source safe

[dmalhotr2001]

Hi,

I have a project in sourcesafe and I'm trying to download files from
source safe server on my local machine in Visual Studio.net 2003 ( File
--> Source Control --> Open From Source Control). I already picked the
directory in sourcesafe (which is setup as the working folder).

I get prompted the following:

Select the location for the working copy of your Web projects. You can
either accept the default location or change it by clicking in the cell
and editing it.

I accept the default setting and click okay.

I then get an error:

Unable to create Web project 'http://localhost/xxx'. The file path
'c\inetput\wwwroot\xxx' does not correspond to the URL
'http://localhost/xxx'. The two need to map to the same server
location. Http Error 404: Not Found.

I don't really understand what it means there.

PLEASE ANY HELP would be much appreciated to get this working.

Thanks

 

[Bort Vern]

This problem doesn't seem to be as much SourceSafe related as it is
VisualStudio related. You need to ensure that the IIS web server is
started on the machine and that the path 'c:\inetput\wwwroot\xxx' is
the home directory (or under the home directory) in the web server
configuration.

Good luck, I hope this helps.

-Bort Vern

 

[dmalhotr2001]

I'm not sure what you mean.

I have created a xxx folder under inetpub and xxx as a virtual
directory? Everytime I try to add the project it gives the error above
and deletes the physical folder from drive.

Not sure why. I'm not sure how to set it up step by step. Can you
help me with that?

Thanks