Chapter 18. Source Code Control

Managing source code in a team environment is a difficult job; doing so when many developers are involved and no source code tool is employed is almost impossible. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a tool that ships with the Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Architect editions of Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. There’s some speculation that the tool was meant to remain an internal application and not be released to the general public. (By the way, Microsoft didn’t create Visual SourceSafe; the company purchased it.) Although Help text exists for Visual SourceSafe, the program’s general workings and the process of setting up Visual SourceSafe in a production environment aren’t that well documented. In addition, Visual ...

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