Changing read-only property of files

[jolamb42]

I only have beginner's knowledge of the Visual Build Professional software, as I have inherited our project from others that have since left the company.

Currently our project interfaces with Visual Source Safe & VB6. We have steps that will "get latest" from VSS and then check out the files it needs to compile in VB6 (such as the .dll's, .vbp's, .exe's).

Instead of checking out the files so they can be compiled, we want to instead make them writable on the machine that is doing the build so they can be compiled. (This is because usually someone else has them checked out for another reason and then our build machine can't check them out.)

Is there a way in Visual Build Professional to create a step that looks for all files of certain extensions in certain folders and makes them writable? (i.e. uncheck "Read-Only" in properties of that file)

I just need a push in the right direction if this option is available...

Thanks much!
Jolynn