7.5. Practicing Safe Source
The Report Designer works with another software tool called Visual SourceSafe (VSS). VSS controls access to source code, such as report definitions. This can prevent two report designers from trying to modify the same report at the same time. Even if you do not have multiple report designers, VSS can provide a consistent location where all your reporting projects can be found. VSS stores all the source code entrusted to its safekeeping in its own library database. If this VSS library database is located on a network, you have a central location where all the source code can be backed up regularly.
VSS has one more valuable feature. It keeps multiple versions of your source code. When you check in your source code, ...
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