Introducing Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe version 6.0c, or simply VSS, is the latest revision of Microsoft's source code control environment. Using VSS, you can manage your Visual Studio .NET solutions through a centralized database that keeps a history of changes made to files in a solution. Using a check-in/check-out metaphor, you selectively determine what files in a solution you need to work on, and then get the latest version of those files from the central VSS database. After you complete a file, or the work you need to do on it is finished, you check the file back in to VSS, which makes it available to other developers.Every time a file is checked out of VSS, a copy of the actual file is given to you. The original file is retained in the VSS database. Every time you check a file back into the VSS database, a new copy of the file is made, reflecting the changes you made since the last checkout. By allowing VSS to manage your projects and solutions, you always have a complete history of every change made to any of the files under source code control. This makes it possible to revert to a previous version of a file or even a previous version of an entire solution.Because VSS keeps the files in a database, in the unfortunate circumstance of a hard drive crash on your development machine, you can completely re-create a solution from the files that exist inside VSS. The nice thing about VSS is that it can store any type of file, not just the standard project files that you use in a Visual Studio .NET solution. You can store binary files, text files, and Word documents. Literally any type of text-based or binary file can be managed in the VSS database.Based on how you installed VSS, you'll work in a single-developer mode or a team mode. If you're working with many people on the same project, VSS won't let you work on a file that another developer has checked out. You can override these settings in the VSS Admin tool, but it isn't always the best thing to do because you'd then have to merge the changes together, which leaves room for error. If you're a single developer and just need a robust source control system, VSS works the same way that it does in a multiuser model.
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.