For a customer I had to upgrade a VSS 6.0d to a VSS 2005.
Here a short explanation how to do it.
- Uninstall VSS 6, the uninstall will not remove your database so this is safe.
- Install VSS 2005 on the server
- Install the client tools of VSS2005 on your PC. (You don't need to remove the VSS 6 client tools)
- Start VS.NET 2003 and open a project from you VSS 2005 database. As you can see the login screen will be the one of 2005 and not 6.
So that was it.
In my case I didn't installed VSS 2005 on the same machine (it was a fresh installation) as the VSS 6, so I also had to copy the database to the VSS 2005 machine.
Basically, VSS 6.0d databases are backwards compatible on a VSS 2005 system. And VS.NET 2003 just shows you the login screen of currently used VSS system.
Wesley