>Is the latest version in the VCX or the text file? What happens if I check in the text file instead of the VCX? What happens if one developer makes changes in the text file and forgets to put the changes in place, then another makes changes to the VCX or even a different text file of the same class library?

You still don't get it.

It's not *OR*. There's only ONE "Source File".

You know; like .C, .BAS, >>> .PRG <<<.

And let's not start the "I don't want the code Forms in PRGs" circle again; just keep repeating: "two-way", "two-way", "two-way", ...

>>In fact, VCX/SCXs (usually) require a "text convert" step in order to be properly managed by most "source control systems" (ie. SCCTEXT.PRG).
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>But that happens automatically.

Yeah ... and now you have 3 FILES: VCX, VCT, PRG/TXT.

"Automatic confusion".