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Integrating Dreamweaver with Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft??™s Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is an industrial-strength, version-control tool. With VSS, team members
can check files in and out just as they can with Dreamweaver. In addition, other valuable features are also
available, including the capability to get a history of changes, to compare two or more versions to one
another to see the differences, and to restore a previous version. Visual SourceSafe is generally used in larger
corporations where many different departments are involved in a Web development project. VSS is bundled
with the Enterprise edition of Visual InterDev, as well as being sold separately.
Dreamweaver integrates its own Check In/Check Out system with that of Visual SourceSafe. When a
Dreamweaver site is connected to a VSS database, checking out a file in Dreamweaver checks out a file
from the VSS project. Likewise, when a file is checked back in Dreamweaver, it is noted as being checked-in
in the VSS database. This integration enables Dreamweaver to be smoothly integrated into a large-scale Web
development project in which both Dreamweaver users and non-users may be working together, accessing
the same files.
Visual SourceSafe is currently only available on the Windows platforms.
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