Hi,
I'm trying to use PERL to automate some tasks in MS Visual Source Safe, via OLE.
However, I can't make the link between the newly created Win32::OLE object and the methods and properties documented for SourceSafe by MS ...
i.e. I'm a PERL beginner stuck at a pretty basic hurdle I presume!

This is what I've got:
use Win32::OLE;
$vss = Win32::OLE->new('SourceSafe') or die "Can't start VSS";
$vssdb = $vss->VSSDatabase->Open($path, $user, $pwd) or die "Failed";

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This fails at the last line: Can't call method "Open" on an undefined value.

Here are my questions:
i) What's specifically wrong with the above?
ii) Is there a way to discover the methods and properties available for the object returned by Win32::OLE->new()?

Thanks,
Tim

In reply to PERL OLE connection to VSS by Anonymous Monk

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