• Install the dotNet runtime before installing the client components.
• Run the VSS.net client installation.
• Run the client, by selecting the menu option or the icon off the desktop.
• To do anything useful, you'll need to configure VSS*net so that it knows how to connect to the database.  You do this in the options dialog which you can access by selection Tools | Options... from the menu bar.  If this is the first time you've used VSS.net you can use the entry that is already listed to connect to our demo database and try it out.  The user name is demo and the password is password.
• Select the "Database List" tab.
• Fill in the Local Name with the name you want to call the database.
• Fill in the Remote Name with the databaseName that the server knows the database as (see the keys section of the server install)
• Fill in the URL with the url location of the Vss*net web service.  This would look something like http://www.server.com/VssNet/VssNet.asmx.

Assuming you have been set up on the server to access the database you specified, you should be all set