http://www.kevingao.net SourceSafe, Source Control, Software Development Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 & write permission of ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/how-to-manage-security-in-sourcesafe-vss.html 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. It gives ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/show-history-in-sourcesafe-vss.html 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 default, ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/pin-in-sourcesafe-vss.html This article is a part of SourceSafe / VSS Tutorial Dynamsoft provides a tool called SCC Provider Manager with its SourceAnywhere 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 tool:   (SCC Provider Manager)   With ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/a-free-tool-to-manage-the-msscci-provider.html 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 archive SourceSafe ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/how-to-backup-restore-sourcesafe-vss-database.html 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 to ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/integrating-sourcesafe-vss-with-powerbuilder.html 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: 1. Choose SourceSafe as the current source control provider. For information on how to do ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/integrating-sourcesafe-vss-with-visual-basic-60.html 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: 1. Choose SourceSafe as the current source control provider. For information on how to do it, refer to: ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/integrating-sourcesafe-vss-with-visual-c-60.html 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 of ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/how-to-manage-users-in-sourcesafe-vss.html 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. 1. Open Flash. 2. Click menu Site -> Edit Sites to New or Edit a site. (New ... http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/integrating-sourcesafe-vss-with-flash.html