Trying to find out if VSS 2005 (8.0?) can be used from a VS 2003 IDE.

Here's a start...

Visual SourceSafe Compatibility Matrix - Microsoft Technical Forums

...and here's a Q&A that says that the SCC APIs haven't changed, so you should be able to access a VSS 2005 server from within VS 2003 IDE.

So this will get us through the next couple months until we can install and use the *released* version of VS 2005. Ah, the fun of a paranoid client...