Visual SourceSafe 2005 provides a higher performance and more reliable
desktop backup solution for individual users or small teams. Visual SourceSafe
2005 is sold standalone for Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or Visual Studio
2005 Professional Edition users and is also included in the MSDN Premium
Subscription.
Visual SourceSafe is the ideal version control system for
any development team using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Historically, problems
within the team development environment stem from the inability to work
comfortably in a setting sensitive to their projects and source code. While
every project requires an adequate level of software management, the costs and
overhead associated with file-based version control often outweigh the benefits.
By providing project-oriented software management, Visual SourceSafe enables
teams to develop with the confidence that their projects and files will be
protected. It's simple enough to use right out of the box, and it's integrated
with the development environment developers already work in.
Integrated
features of Visual SourceSafe enable developers to access the full power of team
development features—all from within the familiar Visual Studio environment they
already use. Many features trigger automatically, such as when a file is about
to be changed, providing a safety net for team members and ensuring the
protection of the project.
Visual SourceSafe also provides an extensive
feature set designed to save time and money through reliable source code
control. It enables development teams to automatically protect and track their
most valuable source code, documentation, binaries, and all other file types as
they change throughout the software life cycle. For example, check in and check
out file locking securely protects files from accidental overwrite by preventing
more than one user from modifying the same file at once.