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 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 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 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: 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...