INFO: Three Types of Drag-and-Drop with Visual SourceSafe

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When working with projects, the right mouse button drag-and-drop displays a menu with the following options: share, share and branch, and move. The left mouse button drag-and-drop is a share drag-and-drop, where a new subproject is created under the target project, and the files from the source project are shared with the new subproject. In addition, when working with projects, pressing the ALT key or the SHIFT key along with the left mouse button results in a share and branch drag- and-drop.

When working with files, the right mouse button drag-and-drop displays a menu with the following options: share, share and branch, and in version 6.0, move. The left mouse button drag-and-drop is a share drag-and-drop.

In addition, when working with files, pressing the ALT key or the SHIFT key along with the left mouse button results in a share drag-and-drop.

To summarize:

   Share               left mouse button
                       right mouse button + Share on the shortcut menu

   Share and Branch    [SHIFT|ALT] left mouse button
                       right mouse button + Branch on the shortcut menu

   Move                right mouse button + Move on the shortcut menu (in
                       versions prior to 6.0 this option is only available
                       for projects.)
				

NOTE: It is not possible to do file moves.