There are still many companies using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe even though Micorsoft themselves have decided not to extend their support for this piece of archaic software. We are still using it and in the process of moving over to Subversion. I have struggled for a bit to get this ant script set up to communicate with VSS . There aren't many resources available and my feeling is that is simply because less people are using VSS and even less use an Ant script + VSS. Hopefully this build script will help the individuals who are still stuck using VSS.