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- Beginners Guide

What is Version Control?

Deployed by all industries
Track History
Enables further revisions and
future upgrades
Easy to retrieve

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Need of Version Control

Cross-platform

development tracking portability

issues involved in maintaining one code base across
multiple development platforms.
Reusable

or object-oriented code - tracking which

programs use which modules so that code can be
reused.

Version Tracking - Contd..,

Labels. These are strings that you can

apply to any version of a file or project.

A label is a free-form string of up to 31

characters.

The following are all valid labels: "1.0",

"2.01b", "Field Test 3", and "Approved by
QA".

Date/Time stamp. Tells when a file was

last modified, or when a file was
checked in.

VSS supports both 12-hour format (with

"a" or "p suffix) and 24-hour format.

What is CI?

Configuration means anything that can

be changed
CI or Configuration Item includes all
software components that can be
changed

Documents
Plans
Source Code
Users
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Software Configuration
Management

SCM is a software engineering

discipline comprising the tool and
techniques that a company uses to
manage change to its software
assets.

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Best Practices of
SCM
Identification

of configuration

items.
Change

control of configuration

items.
Audit

of configuration items.

Recording

and reporting of
information needed to manage
configuration items.

VSS - Features

Microsoft VSS helps you manage your

projects, regardless of the file type (text
files, graphics files, binary files, sound
files, or video files) by saving them to a
database.
VSS project organization makes team
coordination easy and intuitive
VSS can be easily integrated with Microsoft
development tools. Eg., Access, VB, V C++.

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VSS - Terminology

Project: Group of related files, typically all

the files required to develop a software
component. Files can be grouped within a
project to create subprojects.
Sub Project : Project within a parent project
Working Folder: Specified folder on a user's
local computer used to store files when they
are checked out of the VSS database.

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VSS - Terminology

Checkout-File: File that has been

reserved for work by a user. Users
check out files to make changes to
them. In the default configuration, VSS
allows only one user at a time to check
out a file. Checking out a file copies its
latest version into the user's working
folder.
Label : User-defined name you can
attach to a specific version number of a
file or project.
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Labeling of Files/Projects

To label the current version of a

file or project:

Select the file or project you want in VSS

Explorer.

On the File menu, click Label to display the

Label dialog box.

In the Label box, type a string of up to 31

characters; optionally, in the Comment box,
type a comment.

Click OK.
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To label an older version of a file

or project:

Select the file or project you want in VSS Explorer.

On the Tools menu, click Show History to display

the History dialog box.

Click Details to display the History Details dialog

box.

In the Label box, type a user-defined label;

optionally, in the Comment box, type a comment.

Click Close to exit the History Details dialog box.

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VSS - Access Rights

Read
Checkin/Check

out
Add/Remove/Delete
Destroy

Access Rights

Read
General Rights , allows you to access
(Read) the File
Checkout / Checkin
To make a writable copy of the file, to
be modified(Checkout)
To save the changes in to the
repository (Checkin)

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Access Rights

Add/Remove/Delete

To Add/Delete the files of Folders

in VSS Database.

Destroy

To destroy the Projects from VSS.

Normally assigned only to Project
Manager.

By default VSS Admin has Full Control.

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Checkout

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Checkin

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History

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Share

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How to get a
Latest Version
Select the database & respective
Folder
Choose the Get Latest Version
Specify the working folder.

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To get a Specific Version

Right click on the database &
choose the Show history option
Select the Label & Choose the
Get option
Give the Working Folder option .

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Conclusion

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