Tips compiled primarily from Microsoft's Team Development Guide for SourceSafe.
For Administrators
- Run Analyze & Repair on database once per week.
- Synchronize time between fc-devapp01 and workstations.
- Perform daily FULL backups of the SourceSafe database.
For Users
- Only use the IDE for managing files.
- Do not check out and check in files from both VSS and the IDE. Doing this only once causes the files to get out of sync.
- Save all web projects to http://localhost/projectname.
- Within Visual Studio, create blank Solutions, followed by Projects within the Solution.
- When opening a project for the first time, choose Open from Source Control.
- The next time you open the project, use Open Project.
For web applications, it is recommended that you check out the entire solution if possible.
A project can be part of more than one solution, but a solution must be unique.
When you check out a web form (aspx) or code-behind file (aspx.cs), VS .NET automatically checks out both files.
Rename or deletions that are performed with the Visual Studio .NET IDE are not automatically propagated to VSS and vice-versa. As a result you must use VSS Explorer in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET.
Recommendation
- Always check in files after careful code review.
- Create class library projects, other than web projects, since it's much difficult to move a web project from one machine to another.
