what is sourcesafe?
i am trying to download it to see if it will work well with c# because someone told me to download it for a job, but i don't even understand what it is?
is it built into the visual studio ide or what?
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A:
SourceSafe is a poor and obsolete source control system.
It can store an application's source code and show revision history, and allow multiple developers to work on the same project efficiently.
It has been replaced by Team Foundation Server.
SLaks
2010-04-27 01:20:09
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A:
Sourcesafe is a version control system from Microsoft, some would say not a very good one. It's not part of Visual studio however it does integrate into it. MS have now replaced VSS in their Team System version of Visual Studio.
Source control is a great idea, and experience with them will definitely help your Job hunting, but don't constrain yourself to Sourcesafe, also checkout (pun intended) systems like Subversion etc.
Tim Jarvis
2010-04-27 01:22:04
TFS isn't a competing product - it's a replacement. SourceSafe is dead. It's no longer necessary to compete with it.
John Saunders
2010-04-27 01:51:49
Tim Jarvis
2010-04-27 02:39:59
@Tim: for anyone considering using either product for new development, both VSS and VB6 should be considered dead. We should not confuse the issue, or some poor souls will read this and decide that it's a good idea to _start_ developing using VB6 and VSS!
John Saunders
2010-04-27 02:48:33
@John, Sure. I hope that no-one got the implication from what I said that it was a good idea for greenfields dev, that was never my intent. Just for clarification I'll update the answer.
Tim Jarvis
2010-04-27 03:28:27