How to "clone" a complete .Net Solution

Question

i have a solution(exe) that consists of 3 projects and is under visual sourcesafe sourcecontrol. Now i need a copy because i have to make some major changes that should not affect the original application. So what is the simpliest and safest way to achieve this and avoids conflicts? I also want the new solution to be under sourcecontrol as different project too.

Thank you in advance.

Edit: I have followed your instructions to create a new branch in source safe. I had to remove some conflicts manually(f.e. references). But now its working. In these moments i know why people suggest to use other version controls than MS VSS. Thank you all for your help.

Answer 1

The way i would tackle this is to branch the project under sourcesafe. This other question might provide the answer What's the right way to branch with Visual Source Safe?

Answer 2

Create a branch of it.

this is a short explanation of how you can do that.

You should note however, that Visual Sourcesafe is not the best tool to create branches and merge changes accross branches. There are better tools out there, which have better support for this like Sourcegear Vault, TFS, etc..