How to remove Access 2007 (MDB) project from Team Foundation using VB6/VBA?

Question

Hi,
is there any way how to remove A2007 (MDB) project from Team Foundation using VB6 or VBA? CompactDatabase method doesn't seem to help.
I need to remove back-end MDBs before deploying the whole project. In other words, the MDBs themselves should remain in TF but I'd like to remove their copies that should be deployed (distribution set). I wrote a simple function for compacting MDBs but it
doesn't do the trick. When I compact an MDB in Access 2007 I'm always asked whether I want to remove it from source control.
Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

What are the copies you referring?
These are physical copies of local MDB files. I can't (don't want) to deploy MDB files that are handled by source code control (SCC) since those files hold information about SCC (local directory mapping). Users might not understand the message they get when
they open such MDB in Access, eg.:
This database was named 'C:\Projekty\P1\DB\nP01.mdb' but has been moved, copied, or renamed. Source code control features will be disabled.
That's why I want to remove the SCC information from MDB files. The only way I know so far is to use "Compact & Repair database" in MS Access 2007. I'd like to point you to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155494%28v=office.10%29.aspx (it's
similar to Access 2007 & Team Foundation):
Using the Compact Database Command
In order to take a database that is under source code control and deliver it to a user, you need a way to cut the database's ties to source code control. When you compact a database that is under source code control, Microsoft Access 2000 prompts you
to remove the database from source code control.
To remove the database from source code control, Microsoft Access simply removes the Visual SourceSafe properties from the Microsoft Access database and its objects.
I would like to remove Access MDBs from SCC programmatically so that I can
significantly reduce time that I spend on deploying the application. In one of our applications there are five back-end MDBs that are under SCC and it takes some time to remove them from
SCC manually. I have to do it anytime we release new version, even for releases that are determined as testing releases for internal testing within our company.
Thank you very much for your time.