I have some reports developed using Crystal Reports 12 and I want to version it using Visual Source Safe but I don't use Visual Studio. Is there a way I can do this without VS or do I have to install VS in order to version my CR reports?
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A:
Installing the Visual Sourcesafe client should be sufficient.
You might want to check out (no pun intended) other Source Controls. We have been using Visual Sourcesafe for several years without any hickups but it is not considered the most performant or even trusthworthy Source Control solution.
Some well respected open source Source Controls that come to mind
VCS
DVCS
Lieven
2010-05-21 13:54:24
Thanks a lot Lieven. Here at the company we cannot use versioners like svn because of some politics, we can't use svn because it's free and there's not maintenance contract with the developers. Sad but true... =/
Edu Ronqui
2010-06-01 13:03:48
If they insist on paying for a sourcecontrol, Microsoft Team Foundation Server offers source control and should be faster and much more reliable. We will be switching to TFS this year. That being said, perhaps it is allowed for you to have git or mercurial installed on your own development machine. That is what I've done.
Lieven
2010-06-01 13:34:31