Product Highlights

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe protects your teamÆs most valuable assets, and gives you the tools you need to work efficiently within complex development and authoring environments.

Secure and scalable version control.

• Store current files along with past changes to documents, source code, and Web content, so you can easily re-create previous versions and maintain an audit trail for any file.
• Choose among four administrator-based access levels to assign user- and project-specific authorization for flexible and secure administration. Tailor default or custom file access rights according to the needs of each project.
• Reconcile file changes from multiple users and prevent accidental code overwriting with Check Out file locking, Visual Merge, and Difference Reporting.
• Conserve disk space and maximize performance with direct access to your most recent files while reserving delta storage for older versions.
• Take advantage of the new Graphical Archiving Wizard and high-perform-ance database access for easy administration and archiving of large project files.

Project-oriented version control for Web and PC content management.

• Develop Web content, source code, and supporting program files in the same environment, and deploy your files directly to Web sites.
• Generate site maps based on a collection of Web pages stored in Visual SourceSafe.
• Automatically test both local and remote hyperlinks to maintain the structural integrity of Web site HTML, graphics, and applications.
• Coordinate file reuse among projects with advanced share-and-link capabilities to organize shared files.
• Use Promotion Labeling to associate file changes with release status.
• Control versions of any type of file produced by any development language, authoring tool, or application.

Powerful, yet easy-to-use tools.

• Visual SourceSafe 6.0Æs user interface has the familiar look and functionality of Windows« Explorer. New users will find it quick and easy to learn.
• Visually track and merge multiple versions of the same file.
• Begin version control immediately with quick, simple installation.
• Minimize learning time with easy- to-follow online Help.
• Provide integrated version control with the latest versions of Microsoft development tools such as Visual Basic«, Visual C++«, Visual FoxPro«, Visual InterDev TM, Visual J++TM, Microsoft Access, Microsoft FrontPage« Web authoring and development tool, and Microsoft Office Developer Edition, as well as many third-party products.