Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

• Very popular
• Mainly used by Windows developers
• Cornerstone of many development teams
• Provides essential version control functions
• Promotes team collaboration

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VSS Issues

• For distributed teams
• - Slow remote access performance
• - Not secure
• Requires file sharing over internet
• Opening firewall ports could put the whole LAN in
  danger
• Only supports Windows platform
• Only supports MSSCCI IDE integration
• - Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005 etc.

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Cause of the Issues

• Design philosophy
• Principally created for development teams working
  
• in a LAN and trusted environment

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Discussion

• What is your experience with VSS?
• What are your expectations for VSS remote access
  solution?

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SourceAnywhere for VSS

• A remote access solution for VSS
• An add-on tool for VSS
• Offers fast, secure and reliable remote access
  for VSS
• Recommended by Microsoft as a remote access and
  cross-platform solution for VSS

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Benefits

• Increased productivity
• Secure distributed development
• More platform and IDE choices
• Existing investment in VSS is protected

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Feature Overview

• Performance
• - High performance SourceSafe remote/internet
  access
• - Cache server for your geographically
  distributed teams
• Security
• - No file system exposure
• - 128-bit SSL and Blowfish encryption
• - Password policy to protect your password
• VSS Similarity
• - All major VSS features are supported
• - GUI resembles VSS

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Features (continued)

• IDE Integration
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Eclipse Plug-in
• Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash plug-in
• Cross-platform
• Windows client
• Java client can run on any JAVA compatible
  platform

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Architecture
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High Performance Access Features

• Can be up to 100 times faster than VSS over the
  internet
• Cache server further improves the remote access
  performance
• Technologies used
• Client/server architecture, no file access over
  internet
• Compresses similar files into one file
• Multi-thread transfer
• Delta Transfer (only changed parts of a file
  transferred)
• Intelligent file change detection (only changed
  files that are transferred)

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Security

• No file system exposure
• 128-bit SSL and Blowfish encryption
• Password policy to protect your password

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VSS Similarity - Features

• All major VSS features are supported
• GUI resembles VSS

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IDE Integration and Cross Platform

• IDE Integration
• Microsoft Visual Studio (all MSSCCI compatible
  IDE)
• Eclipse Plug-in
• Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash plug-in
• Cross platform
• Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris
• Any operating systems compatible with JAVA

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Demo
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Customers

• and thousands more

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Thank You !

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