title: Which is the faster way to interact with SourceSafe? Command line or object model?
body: <p>Our project is held in a SourceSafe database. We have an automated build, which runs every evening on a dedicated build machine. As part of our build process, we get the source and associated data for the installation from SourceSafe. This can take quite some time and makes up the bulk of the build process (which is otherwise dominated by the creation of installation files).</p>
  
  <p>Currently, we use the command line tool, <code>ss.exe</code>, to interact with SourceSafe. The commands we use are for a recursive get of the project source and data, checkout of version files, check-in of updated version files, and labeling. However, I know that SourceSafe also supports an object model.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Does anyone have any experience with this object model?</li>
  <li>Does it provide any advantages over using the command line tool that might be useful in our process?</li>
  <li>Are there any disadvantages?</li>
  <li>Would we gain any performance increase from using the object model over the command line?</li>
  </ul>