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Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe 6.0 CD
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0093007839056
Format: CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 200
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: 324-00268
MPN: 324-00268
Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 95
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Editorial Review:
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe v.6.0 - Complete Produ
Visual SourceSafe 6.0 is the latest edition of Microsoft's award-winning version-control system for managing software and Web-site development. Fully integrated with the Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual InterDev, and Visual FoxPro development environments, as well as with Microsoft Office applications, it provides easy-to-use, project-oriented version control. Visual SourceSafe works with any file produced by any development language, authoring tool, or application. Users can work at both the file and project level while promoting file reuse. The project-oriented features of Visual SourceSafe make managing the day-to-day tasks associated with team-based application and Web site development more efficient.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Small Operations
As a CM on a project using Visual SourceSafe I speak wth first hand knowledge when I tell you it is very limited. For a small project it is sufficient as long as your manager doesn't start asking for multiple labels, all types of history queries, multiple views, et cetera. Otherwise you will be spending all your time writing scripts to fill in the holes this product leaves. The other annoying problem is documentation. Not only did Microsoft force you to print all the help, very few other publishers ... Read More
Rating:  - Actually, it's a pretty darn good software program.
(...) Microsoft does in fact use VSS in-house for their production. I know this, because I worked there.
VSS is an excellent program to use as long as you have the staff (which any decent IT department should have) with the know-how to use it. We didn't have any problems incorporating it into part of our daily routine, and we used it to produce the entire Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit, both online and print versions. We also used it for Windows 2000 Help, and we used it for the Windows 2000 ... Read More
Rating:  - Buggy, Unreliable, Frustrating, Scary
Source Code Management, no doubt, is a vital part of any development shop. Any team based development effort needs a centralized repository in which to store their work.
That being said, I would implore you to choose another product - such as the open source CVS (which can hook into VS.net with the right plug-ins).
VSS is a buggy, unreliable, unbearably slow...and fundamentally unuseable product. This is *not* the sort of system you should use hold vital data that ammounts to months and months ... Read More
Rating: - Lackluster tool: Consistent with Microsoft overall design.
If all you ever want of your revison-control software is ``check-in'' and ``get latest version'', then perhaps this is the tool for you.
If you want to have branching for separate development paths, tools for merging contributions from separate sources, and abilities to affix attributes and labels in non-trivial ways then you are out of luck. To get these features, try ClearCase by Rational Software.
There is no comparison with the config-spec methadology of ClearCase, which allows one to specify ... Read More
Rating:  - Decent, but no more
Source control is critical, and for small scale operations this app works great. Occasionally there's some db corruption, but in general you should do alright. But it really doesn't scale, lacks many features, and hasn't had any significant feature additions, or development effort in years. Sometimes I think there are no developers currently working on this app at all. There's got to be a better way.
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