IVSS State Management Conundrum

Article
10/06/2003

I recently received
this C# code snippet from a customer (my question follows):

//remove all instances of label "bad label" in the versions collection objVSSVersion

foreach(IVSSVersion
objVssVersion in myVssItem.get_Versions(0))

{

if (objVssVersion.Label == "Bad Label")

objVssVersion.VSSItem.Label("","");

}

Upon running
this code, the customer sees one of two errors:

· "A
history operation is already in progress"

· "File
VSSSERVERPATH\data\s\sfvaaaaa is already open"

Conundrum

There
appears to be another VSSVersions object instantiated. At present, you can have
only one at a time.

To work
around this limitation, we have to figure out how to finalize the existing object,
right? I have some idea about how to do this but would like to hear your thoughts.
How does one do this? Is it even possible in C#?

Have you
run into this problem with an IVSS... object before? If so, what was your workaround.

IVSS State Management Conundrum

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