installation and configuration of Visual SourceSafe

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installation and configuration of visual sourcesafce in windows xp professional

Posted 19-Mar-15 17:14pm

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[no name] 19-Mar-15 23:21pm

This is obviously not an answer, but a well meant suggestion: Windows XP is old no longer supported by Microsoft. It will be vulnerable to future malware. Get Windows 7 or 8. And VSS is also a discontinued product. Get Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition (which is essentially the same as the Professional edition but FREE) and some other source control software, like Git.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Mar-15 23:37pm

In addition to that, VSS is not only discontinued, it is also notoriously unreliable. It is not even transactional, which I would call a fatal defect, and it is proprietary. Please see my answer.
—SA

[no name] 19-Mar-15 23:44pm

Alright - I never used it, just knew it's discontinued :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Mar-15 23:52pm

Good for you. :-)
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-03-19T17:33:00

Never ever use SourceSafe, it can betray you at any moment. It was never an acceptable Revision Control product, it is not even transaction. It can betray you and you can suffer big losses. Besides, it is proprietary. There is a number of real Revision Control system which are open source and are maintained really well. I think risking your valuable code assert to anything which is not open-source would be too careless.

Please see my past answers:
The associated source control plug-in is not installed or could not be intiialized[^],
How can i structured to arrange source code when i create a new solution[^].

Consider, in particular, Subversion, git, Mercurial, Bazaar. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revision_control_software[^].

—SA