Visual Source Safe (Vss) Beginner’s Guide

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- Beginner’s Guide

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What is Version Control?

Deployed by all industries Track History Enables further revisions and

future upgrades Easy to retrieve

Need of Version Control

Cross-platform development — tracking portability issues involved in maintaining one code base across multiple development platforms.

Reusable or object-oriented code - tracking which programs use which modules so that code can be reused.

Version Tracking - Contd.., Labels. These are strings that you can

apply to any version of a file or project. A label is a free-form string of up to 31

characters. The following are all valid labels: "1.0",

"2.01b", "Field Test 3", and "Approved by QA".

Date/Time stamp. – Tells when a file was last modified, or when a file was checked in.

VSS supports both 12-hour format (with "a" or "p“ suffix) and 24-hour format.

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What is CI?

Configuration means anything that can be changed

CI or Configuration Item includes all software components that can be changed Documents Plans Source Code Users

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Software Configuration Management

SCM is a software engineering discipline comprising the tool and techniques that a company uses to manage change to its software assets.

Best Practices of SCM

Identification of configuration items. Change control of configuration items. Audit of configuration items.Recording and reporting of information needed to manage configuration items.

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VSS - Features Microsoft VSS helps you manage your

projects, regardless of the file type (text files, graphics files, binary files, sound files, or video files) by saving them to a database.

VSS project organization makes team coordination easy and intuitive

VSS can be easily integrated with Microsoft development tools. Eg., Access, VB, V C++.

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VSS - Terminology Project: Group of related files, typically all

the files required to develop a software component. Files can be grouped within a project to create subprojects.

Sub Project : Project within a parent project

Working Folder: Specified folder on a user's local computer used to store files when they are checked out of the VSS database.

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VSS - Terminology

Checkout-File: File that has been reserved for work by a user. Users check out files to make changes to them. In the default configuration, VSS allows only one user at a time to check out a file. Checking out a file copies its latest version into the user's working folder.

Label : User-defined name you can attach to a specific version number of a file or project.

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Labeling of Files/Projects

To label the current version of a file or project:

Select the file or project you want in VSS Explorer.

On the File menu, click Label to display the Label dialog box.

In the Label box, type a string of up to 31 characters; optionally, in the Comment box, type a comment.

Click OK.

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To label an older version of a file or project:

Select the file or project you want in VSS Explorer.

On the Tools menu, click Show History to display the History dialog box.

Click Details to display the History Details dialog box.

In the Label box, type a user-defined label; optionally, in the Comment box, type a comment.

Click Close to exit the History Details dialog box.

VSS - Access Rights

ReadCheckin/Check outAdd/Remove/Delete Destroy

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Access Rights Read

General Rights , allows you to access (Read) the File

Checkout / Checkin To make a writable copy of the file,

to be modified(Checkout) To save the changes in to the

repository (Checkin)

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Access Rights

Add/Remove/Delete To Add/Delete the files of Folders

in VSS Database. Destroy

To destroy the Projects from VSS. Normally assigned only to Project

Manager. By default VSS Admin has Full Control.

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Checkout

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Checkin

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History

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Share

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How to get a Latest Version

Select the database & respective Folder

Choose the Get Latest Version Specify the working folder.

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To get a Specific Version

Right click on the database & choose the Show history option

Select the Label & Choose the Get option

Give the Working Folder option .

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