Latest release is Galileo with 3.5 platform version at 24 June 2009 for Galileo projects.

You can look up the commercial and open source plugins for Eclipse available at http://www.eclipse.org/community/plugins.html.

You can get started Eclipse by download the SDk of the latest release version from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Be sure to have at least JDK/JRE 1.4 on your desktop. If you want to stay on the cutting edge, you can download the “stable” build which typically has additional bug fixes and features, but it hasn’t been graded production-quality yet.

You can Integrate VSS with Eclipse using the following steps

Step 1 : Download VSS plugin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vssplugin/files/

Step 2 : Unzip and put it inside the eclipse\plugins folder 

Step 3 : Start Eclipse

Step 4 :  Select the project and go to Team >> Share project

Step 5 : Give the VSS server credentials .

Username                   : VSS user Name

Password                     : VSS user password

VSS Directory              : VSS  Sever path  which you can browse your network

Source dir                    : Local folder which is to map with VSS folder

Relative mountpoint   : Mapping path in the VSS server

Click on Finish button

Step 6 :

Now you can start using eclipse for all the VSS operation like get latest version from VSS ,Checkout /Checkin  VSS file etc..

Happy learning !!