Why This Chapter Is Important
Visual SourceSafe, also known as VSS, is a tool you can use to manage the development of an Access application being worked on by a team of developers. After you place a database under SourceSafe control, you must check out each object before you modify it. After you make the changes to the object, you check it in so that other developers can see the changes. At any time, you can get the following information about the objects in the database:
Which objects are checked out
A history of everything that has happened to an object
The differences between two versions of an object
Using Visual SourceSafe, you can easily revert an object to a previous version or merge different versions of an object. Visual SourceSafe is ...
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