Taking control in Visual SourceSafe

As a way of introducing Visual SourceSafe, we'll go through a typical work-session using it.

At this point your source code is now in XML the format that the UD6/CMtool Driver uses (in the directory c:\usys-ud6102_7206\projects\sources), and is ready for ‘putting into’ Visual SourceSafe. The following describes a SourceSafe setup which is a fairly straightforward one and should suffice for your initial evaluation, or to give more advanced SourceSafe users an insight into the specifics of using Visual SourceSafe with the UD6/CMtool Driver for Uniface.

Installing and setting up Visual SourceSafe.

• Install the Visual SourceSafe Server and and client software (all of the commands shown here are executed from the client).

Migration tasks to be performed.

• Set SourceSafe Options using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator.
  
  
• Create SourceSafe Project using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator.
  
  
• Set Shadow Folder using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator.
  
  
• Add source code to Project using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer client.
  
  
• Set working folder(s) using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer client.

At the conclusion of these tasks you should have a Visual SourceSafe project database containing all of your Uniface source, and a shadow folder containing read-only copies of the same files.