Chapter 2 - Establishing the Developement Environment

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1. The first objective requires you to have some knowledge of Visual SourceSafe 6.0, which is bundled with VB 6.0, Enterprise Edition. You can use Visual SourceSafe to manage the files for source code through different versions of a single project.
   
   You can also use Visual SourceSafe to prevent conflicts and confusion among developers who are working on the same project at the same time.

2. Install and configure Visual Basic for developing desktop/distributed applications

Contents

1. Implementing Source-Code Control with Visual SourceSafe

2. The Nature of a Visual SourceSafe Project

3. The Visual SourceSafe Database

4. Visual SourceSafe Administrator

5. Archiving and restoring Visual SourceSafe databases

6. Restoring a Visual SourceSafe Project from Archive

7. Using Visual SourceSafe Administrator to Set Up and Maintain Users

8. Visual SourceSafe Explorer

9. Creating a New Project Folder in Visual SourceSafe

10. Adding Files to a Visual SourceSafe Project

11. Setting the Working Folder for a Project

12. Checking Out, Checking In, and Getting Working Copy

13. Source-Code Labeling and Version Numbers

14. Source-Code Sharing

15. Source-Code Branching

16. Pinning an Earlier Version of a File for Use in the Current Version of a Project

17. Merging Two Different Versions of a File