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Basic Steps: Login to Github or SourceForge to fork (not clone) a project. Clone the forked project from your remote repo to your local disk. Coding and commit changes to your local repo. Push your changes to your remote repo. Send a merge request to the project owner. The project...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. Today, let’s go through the new experience of version control in VS 2013 Preview. Account Creation Microsoft provides Team Foundation Service Free Plan for up to 5 users. I’m using...

I’m pleased to announce that Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere 4.4 is released on July 9th, 2013. This is a SQL server-based version control software designed as a VSS replacement. Based on all our customers’ valuable feedback on SourceAnywhere Standalone 4.3, we have made some further improvements in this new version. Highlights in...

Sometimes you may want to switch to another user to log into your Team Foundation Server (TFS) service. However, you would find that Windows remembers your credentials and log you in automatically. So how to make TFS forget the old credentials so that you can get the chance to enter...

Most of the time I use TFS source control within Visual Studio. However, sometimes I just want to add or edit some files from within Windows Explorer without bothering to launch Visual Studio. If you have such needs as well, you can follow the steps below to achieve it. Firstly,...

In this article, I will share with you on how to version control your SQL Server Stored Procedure using TFS in Visual Studio 2012. Ads Powered by Dynamsoft Here I am using Dynamsoft TFS Hosting service. If you don’t have a TFS account yet, you can sign up online here...

I am happy to announce that the latest SourceAnywhere release (from ver. 4.2) brings fully support for Visual Studio 2012. Visual Studio is one of the first and most important IDEs that SourceAnywhere series support and integrate with ever since 2003. VS 2012 comes with more colors in the main...

Source code is the most treasure asset to us developers. When expecting a version control tool to better manage the projects and documents and save us time, we also require it to be a secure one. Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere, a SQL Server-based version control tool designed for both central and distributed...

I’m glad to announce that Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere 4.1 is released on 16th October 2012. In this version, we have some new features and improvement. Highlights in SourceAnywhere 4.1: Improvement on user experience in File Property Dialog. Added support for sharing files via drag & drop. Added auto refresh option. In...

Provided as part of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Build enables developers/managers to manage the projects, from version controlling the source code, running associated unit tests, to releasing builds and publishing build reports. In this article, I’ll share with you on how to take advantage of TFS Build...

In this article, I will share with you on how to set up a build server for your TFS Hosting account. Assume you have already signed up for a TFS hosting account. If not, you can go to TFS Hosting Sign Up to get one. Now please follow the steps...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. It automates the software delivery process and gives you the tools you need to effectively manage software development projects throughout the IT lifecycle. Due to the high cost of setting...

1. Importance of Version Control Version control is a technology that has been essential for programmers for decades, and different technology is always emerging that makes version control even better. If you don’t already know why you should use version control in your Eclipse projects, maybe these reasons will convince...

TFS has two types of permission management: Membership Management and Security Management. Membership Management: It defines the relationship between different users and groups. Security Management: It manages the permissions for users and groups. The above two management can be performed on three levels: Server Level, Collection Level and Project Level....

Dynamsoft launched Team Foundation Server hosting service on Dec 13. Sign Up Today to Get 1-Month Free Trial Here at Dynamsoft, our mission is to ease a little burden from busy developers’ shoulders. After building SourceAnywhere (version control) and SCM Anywhere (combined version control and bug tracking), we offered SaaS...

SourceAnywhere™ 4.0 Enables Source Control / Version Control via its GUI-based Client or Within Leading Integrated Development Environments VANCOUVER - August 6, 2012 - Dynamsoft Corp., a developer of source control / version control software and TWAIN™ SDK (software development kit) solutions today announced SourceAnywhere™ 4.0. The software is the...

This article shares with you on how to integrate SourceAnywhere with Visual Studio. Assume you’ve already installed SourceAnywhere on your computer. You can follow the steps below: 1 . Open Visual Studio 2012 and navigate to “TOOLS -> Options -> Source Control”. 2 . In the dialog box, choose “Dynamsoft...

A few customers have inquired about whether our TFS Hosting service provides Urban Turtle – an  Agile/Scrum management tool, which is specially designed and built for TFS. I thought it would be advantageous to be able to manage projects in an agile way. Thereupon, after weeks of negotiation with Pyxis...

On Windows 7, you can enable TFS automatic login by adding in a windows credential in Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage your credentials. In the Credential Manager window, under the Windows Credentials section, click the “Add a Windows Credential” link to add one for your tfs server. If...

Team Foundation Server enables everyone in your team to collaborate more effectively, be more agile, and deliver higher quality software. For busy or small development teams who don’t have a dedicated system admin to perform the setup, backup and other maintenance tasks, hosting TFS might be a good choice.   *...

SourceAnywhere: A SQL Server-based version control software designed to be a replacement of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS). It is developed for both local and geographically distributed development teams. SourceAnywhere Hosted: Sign Up SourceAnywhere Standalone: Free Trial Download Subversion (SVN): An open-source revision control system, which aims to be a compelling...

All editions of Visual Studio 2010 support the source control integration feature but the Express Edition. In this article, I will demonstrate how to use version control in Visual Studio 2010. For ease of the screenshots and article writing, I take SourceAnywhere Hosted, an online version control tool, as the...

This article explains how to source control stored procedures and other objects in SQL Server Management Studio 2008. We use SourceAnywhere Standalone for example, which is a SQL-based source code control software designed to be a replacement of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Other MSSCCI compatible source code control solutions work in...

As the architect of SourceAnywhere for VSS, I was asked by many users about the performance of SourceAnywhere for VSS compared with other products. SourceAnywhere for VSS is a Visual SourceSafe (VSS) remote access solution recommended by Microsoft. As a VSS add-on, SourceAnywhere for VSS solves the VSS performance issue...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Introduction SourceSafe provides a tool, Visual SourceSafe Administrator, to manage the permission of the VSS users. However, designed for trusted environment, SourceSafe offers very low security. Regardless of the VSS project level permission, all VSS users must have read &...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Show History Basics Show History is one of the most important features in SourceSafe. My personal feeling is that being able to go back to the pervious versions is the main purpose that software development teams use version control tools....

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Pin is a small but sometimes helpful feature in Visual SourceSafe (VSS). VSS defines Pin as a marker that designates a specific version of a file. For example, if we want our team members to get a historical version by...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Dynamsoft provides a tool called SCC Provider Manager with its SourceAnywhere source control product family. With this tool, you can choose one of the SCC providers in your system as the default provider. This is a screen shot of the...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial SourceSafe provides an Archive utility, with which we can periodically backup our VSS Database or projects and transport files/projects between SourceSafe databases. SourceSafe also provides a Restore tool which allows us to restore the data from an archive. How to...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial PowerBuilder was a popular tool for database front end development. I used PowerBuilder 6 about 10 years ago to develop a MIS (Management Information System) application. The tool was powerful but in the past 5 years, PowerBuilder lost its ground...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial SourceSafe can be integrated into Visual Basic 6.0 to source control the VB forms, modules, class modules, etc.   To integrate SourceSafe with VB 6.0, we can do as follows: Choose SourceSafe as the current source control provider. For information...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial SourceSafe can be integrated into Visual C++ 6.0 to source control VC projects and files.   To integrate SourceSafe with VC 6.0, we can do as follows: Choose SourceSafe as the current source control provider. For information on how to...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Visual SourceSafe (VSS) users are based on VSS databases. When a VSS database is created, there will be two default users added to the database: Admin and Guest. As the database administrator, we need to add user accounts for all...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Visual SourceSafe can be integrated into Flash (Professional edition only) to source control projects. To use source control functions, we should define a site for the project. Open Flash. Click menu Site -> Edit Sites to New or Edit a...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Visual SourceSafe can be integrated into Dreamweaver to source control projects and files. Open Dreamweaver. Click Site menu -> Manage Sites to create a New site or to Edit a site. (New or Edit a site) In the Site Definition...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial The Visual SourceSafe integration with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2005 is virtually identical to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008. Similar to SSMS 2008, we cannot version control SQL objects directly in SSMS 2005. However, we can create scripts...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Visual SourceSafe can be integrated with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 to facilitate team activities and enable parallel development. We can version control Table, Stored Procedure, Trigger, Rule, etc. in SQL Server 2008. We cannot directly version control the SQL...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial In previous article, I wrote about how to integrate SourceSafe with Access 2007. This time, I will write about integrating SourceSafe with Access 2003. There is common information in the previous article. Please take a look at that article first...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial With Access Source Code Control add-in, Visual SourceSafe can be integrated into MS Access to source control Access queries, forms, reports, macros, modules and data. SourceSafe stores each Access objects as a text file. When you add an Access object...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Label Introduction Visual SourceSafe allows you to define a label for a file or project version. A label is a short and concise description given for purposes of identification, for example, “3.0Beta” or “Release”. Label is one way in Visual...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial MSSCCI Registry Structure How to Edit/View the Registry Improvement in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008   MSSCCI Registry Structure MSSCCI uses registry to organize multiple SCC providers. There are 3 elements in the registry: 1. The provider specific registry entries...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Cloak is a useful little function in version control. It allows us to specify the projects to be ignored during recursive operations such as Get, Check In, Check Out, and Undo Check Out. Why Cloak Some of the subprojects may...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial As we talked about in our last post Share, share is only a small function in version control. It should be combined with Branch to play a greater role. This article will talk about the following topics: Introduction to Branch,...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial If you previously used SourceSafe to source control your Visual Studio projects and then find a better source control tool, you may need to switch the projects under SourceSafe to the new SCC (source code control) provider. In the following...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial In version control, Share enables files to be shared among multiple projects. It creates share links among these projects, so that the item can be viewed in all projects. If an item is modified in one project, the changes will...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation Links: Choosing SourceSafe as the SCC Provider in Visual Studio Adding Solution into Source Control of SourceSafe Performing SourceSafe Operations in Visual Studio Changing Source Control Binding Pending Checkins Window Viewing Source Control Message Visual SourceSafe can be integrated...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Why Project Diff Project Difference compares two versions of a project and displays the comparison results. We can use it to see the differences between our local Windows folder and VSS project, two local Windows folders or two VSS projects....

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial To better understand how files are merged, you first need know something about how diff works. If you have not read the article: Using Visual SourceSafe - File Diff, please click here. File Merge Introduction File merge is the foundation...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Why File Diff File Diff is one of the important features that we use with a version control system. File Diff compares two files and shows the differences. With these differences, we can better track the modification of our code...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Check out basics Check Out, along with Get Latest and Check In, is one of the most common operations in many version control systems. The screen shot of Check Out in VSS 2005: (Screen shot of Check Out project) If...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial VSS supports two modes of work, Lock-Modify-Unlock and Copy-Modify-Merge. Lock-Modify-Unlock is the default style. The details of Lock-Modify-Unlock mode: Under this mode, only one developer can check out a file and work on it. Other developers need to wait for...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation Links: Get Latest Version Basics How does VSS determine if our local copy is the latest version? Build tree Set file time Replace writable Get Latest Version Basics Get Latest, along with Check Out and Check In, is one...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation Links: Add introduction Differences between SourceSafe 6 and 2005 Store only latest version File type filter Binary or not Add introduction A file must be added in a VSS database first before you can do check in, check out...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation Links: Working folder introduction Setting working folder Working folder is inheritable Clear working folder Working folder introduction A working folder is the specified corresponding folders on a user’s local computer used to store files when working with VSS projects....

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial The following screenshots shows the typical interface of SourceSafe. (Log on to VSS DB) (Client Window) (File History) (Share)   The SQL Server-based Source Control Software Designed to be a SourceSafe Replacement The Fastest SourceSafe Remote Access Tool Recommeded by...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation Links: Add Get Check Out Check In I only put basic introduction of SourceSafe / VSS version control operations in this post. For detailed information about SourceSafe operations, like Add, Get, Check In and Undo, please refer to the...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation links: VSS Database/Repository Master Copy and Local Copy VSS Database/Repository VSS database/repository is the central place where all files, history, project structures, permission and user information are stored. VSS database consists of hundreds of or even thousands of individual...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Navigation links: History preserving File Difference Project/Folder Difference Easy Collaboration In a nutshell, you can use VSS to keep your files, including the previous versions, in a central repository/database. Although VSS is mainly used by software developers, it can be...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial As a member of Visual Studio product family, VSS is a very popular version control solution among Windows developers. An IDC August 2004 ALM market report indicates the revenue of Microsoft in the ALM market in 2003 is US$38.1M. Since...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, also called ‘VSS’, is a file-system-based source control tool from Microsoft. This tool was originally developed by One Tree Software Company and later taken over by Microsoft. The following content is copied from Microsoft web site: Microsoft...

Welcome to my SourceSafe Tutorial. If you have any comments regarding this VSS tutorial, feel free to send me an email. In addition, I highly recommend you to use SourceAnywhere, which is designed as the best VSS replacement - How to migrate from VSS to SourceAnywhere Standalone. Navigation Links: Chapter 0: SourceSafe / VSS...

This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial SourceSafe / VSS is a version control tool used by many Windows developers. I started to use SourceSafe in 1995. Before I started to work on SourceAnywhere for VSS (a VSS remote access tool) in 2003, I only used very basic...