I have Head First Design Patterns from O'reilly. It's a great DP books, using lots of analogies to make the concepts understandable. It is definitely not your average programming book. The example code is in java but it's simple to translate to C# or anything else really.

Peter

1. Getting the latest version for a date/time will require the command line interface to VSS. The GUI side doesn't seem to have that functionality that I've found, but you can do it on the command line. You'll have to look thru the command line syntax help to get the exact syntax. Look for the "-V" switch. When you specify the criteria there is a special syntax for specifying the value as a date, "-Vd2-29-92". You might need to play with your ss.ini file locally. When you connect to ss with the command line, ss will automatically attempt to connect to the database that is specified in the ss.ini file in the program directory. For a default install of VSS, this will be your local (and most likely empty) instance of a VSS database. You can change the database path in the ini file to the network path of your real database. 2) In VS.NET, you can "attach" a project to source control. Go to the file menu, source control, change source control. There you can bind the projects and solution to their mates in source control. You are likely to get some warnings errors about existing files and such. Make sure everything is up to date before you start this process so you can just accept all the warnings without a problem. VS will prompt to check out the solution and project files to modify their source control settings. Let it do this and then check everything in. Peter