Installing VSS
The installation for VSS isn't integrated into the normal Visual Studio .NET installation process, so you must find the additional CD labeled Visual SourceSafe 6.0c, which is included with the Visual Studio .NET CD-ROMs. After you find the CD and start the setup process, you can choose from the three installation types in the following list:
Note
VSS comes with only the Enterprise Architect version of Visual Studio .NET.- Shared Database Server Setup Option
This installation option installs the VSS database as a shared database and copies the appropriate client tools to the shared server. When this installation is complete, you must install the VSS client tools that give you access to the shared database. This option is normally used in any team development environment. The NetSetup.exe file that's installed with a shared database server installation is what you'd use to install the client tools on the other developers' desktops. - Custom Setup Option
The custom setup installation option should be used only if you don't want VSS to integrate into the Visual Studio .NET IDE. By choosing the custom setup option, you can enable or disable this feature. This option should be used only if you don't want any of the VSS features available in Visual Studio .NET, which defeats the main purpose of using VSS as a developer! - Stand-Alone Setup Option
The stand-alone setup option creates a private database on a single machine to be used for source code control. This installation option is useful if you're a developer who works alone, and you want to use source code control in your projects. You must make sure that you manually back up the VSS database if you choose this option because a catastrophic failure of your hard drive will kill the VSS database.
After you've installed VSS, a new Microsoft Visual VSS program group is created that contains all the external tools that you can use to manage your VSS databases.
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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
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