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 ...

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