>>>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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>>SourceSafe itself works great. I have used it at one company.
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>>At another company, due to licensing costs, we used Perforce. That one also worked great. Perforce is a commercial product, but it is free if it is only shared by 1-2 programmers. You need a license for bigger development teams.
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>>In either case, the developer has to learn how to use the product, of course.
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>Thanks for the comment Hilmar,
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>Unfortunately the price for Perforce is high for us. Do you think it is so good as to be worth 800.00 per developer?
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>Alex
No, I think SourceSafe should be just as good, and there are other, free, solutions. I just presented it as a free option - free if you work alone, basically. Otherwise it is not free.
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