• Webcam and Annotation With HTML5

    Nowadays, Webcam is widely used for both personal and business. It is simple, cheap, and yet powerful for image acquisition. Some developers prefer to create their own webcam libraries. In this case, you need to learn technologies like TWAIN, WIA and/or DirectShow. Note: the WIA and DirectShow APIs are recommended...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - How to Manage Security

    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 &...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - Show History

    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....

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - A Free Tool to Manage the MSSCCI Provider

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - How to backup & restore VSS DB

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - Integrating VSS with PowerBuilder

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - Integrating VSS with Visual Basic 6.0

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - How to manage users

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - Integrating VSS with SQL Server 2008

    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...

  • Using Visual SourceSafe - Integrating VSS with Access 2003

    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...