>>>>Hello Hank and others in UT,
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>>>>I haven't used SourceOffSite or any other Source Control other than for superficial testing, so I'd welcome a recommendation:
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>>>>What would you choose today for source control for VFP development so that it is easy and intuitive to check components in and out with the system taking care of as much of the housekeeping as possible. What do you think of SourceSafe itself (the version that came with Visual Studio 6.0)?
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>>>I've been using SourceSafe for all my VFP and .NET development for several years. I started with 6.0, and now am using 2005.
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>>>I haven't had any problems with it aside from problems caused by installing VS2008 which caused some issues (they are minor and fixable).
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>>>I do NOT use VFP's sourcesafe integration. That was dreadfully slow and had a habit of corrupting the sourcesafe database when multiple users were hitting it at once. For VFP I just use the SourceSafe application itself.
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>>>For VS.NET, the SourceSafe integration works great!
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>>Thank you for the answer Bill,
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>>Can you explain a little more what you mean when you say that for VFP you just use the SourceSafe application itself as contrasted to using integration. Can you please describe the process of cheching in and out, doing builds, etc. I presume you keep your version of the project in the developer PC rather than on the network.
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>>I am sorry (embarrased) that my questions are so basic. Thank you for the help.
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>>Alex
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>VFP supports sourseSafe integration, where VFP's project manager is connected to SourceSafe and handles checkin/checkout for you. We've had a number of instances where the SourceSafe database corrupts, and the only common thread between the occurances was that somebody was actively using VFP with integrated SourseSafe. We've never had a sourcesafe database corrupt when nobody was using the VFP integration. Integrated SourceSafe in VFP was also *very* slow when opening files.
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>When you install SourceSafe on a client machine, you get a SourseSafe client application installed. It has an Explorer-like interface where you can open a SourceSafe database, add/remove projects, add/remove files, checkin/checkout, view file history, etc. It is very easy to use. Basically, open the SourceSafe client, select the files or project you want to work on and right-click to check it out. When you are through, check it in.
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>Not quite as simple as opening the project in VFP, but it is reliable, fast, and it works well.

Thank you Bill