Is SourceSafe a free tool? If so, where can I find it for download? I work in Visual Studio 2008.
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Source safe is an extremely bad tool which is NOT FREE
You should consider using SVN or Git which are FREE
VisualSVN is a SVN plugin for Visual Studio
Git is another system
This stackoverflow post refers to a Git plugin for Visual Studio 2008
Eric
2010-03-28 10:48:13
this doesn't answer the Q
steelbytes
2010-03-28 10:50:53
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It's not free.
It was included with Visual Studio 2005 Team System editions, but is not included with Visual Studio 2008 Team System. It can be purchased separately as a retail product and is part of certain MSDN subscriptions.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe
Tommy Jakobsen
2010-03-28 10:49:53
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no, it is not free. it is accomercial product by MS, and is available in some msdn and visualsudio subscriptions, and also seperate
steelbytes
2010-03-28 10:50:13
+2
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No sourcesafe isn't free. There is a license fee associated. You could look at an alternative like subversion which is free
simon_bellis
2010-03-28 10:50:25
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I would strongly discourage you from using SourceSafe. Despite the name, it is neither safe nor good for keeping source code.
Jeff Atwood posted a blog post about it, citing a few interesting sites worth reading before you decide on SCM system:
And these two, which are also linked from Jeff's post
- http://www.developsense.com/testing/VSSDefects.html
- http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/windev/sourcesafe.html
They explain the most fundamental problems with source safe.
I've been forced to use VSS on a project twice, and both times I ended up installing svn with svnserve on my machine and then we only pushied the final versions/milestones to VSS from svn.
EDIT: Since apparently, you aren't allowed to help fellow programmers from making major mistakes without getting a gazillion downvotes I will also answer the original question ;-)
- No, sourcesafe is not free. It is, however, licensed together with Visual Studio so you may not need to pay extra to get it (depending on what VS licenses you already have)
Isak Savo
2010-03-28 10:51:54
It doesn't answer the question. He asked if it was free and where to download it. Not if he should use it or not.
Tommy Jakobsen
2010-03-28 10:57:56
fair enough, although I do think it's relevant information to the question since I assume he's also gonna use it after downloading it.But I've edited my post to also provide an actual answer to the question
Isak Savo
2010-03-28 11:00:11
You got my vote ;-) Eric, I think most of us agree that VSS is bad, but one might not have the choice.
Tommy Jakobsen
2010-03-28 11:01:11