I'm looking for some knowledge/advice onVisual SourceSafe and the different editions of Visual Studio. How valuable is SourceSafe? Our company will have 2 to 4 VB.net programmers developing/maintaining some Web applications. We heard this is a nice feature.
We currently have Visual Studio.NET 2003 using the Professional Special edition. It looks like we can purchase SourceSafe for approx $1000 to install with Professional edition. But if we purchase the 'Enterprise Developer' edition of VS (for approx $2,000), Visual SourceSafe comes alongwith. Besides SourceSafe, Enterprise Developer edition had the following extra features:
Application Center Test
Enterprise Templates and Frameworks
Microsoft connected reference applications
Visual Studio Analyzer
I don't know much about these features. Do you think they are valuable enough to pay the extra $1,000 for Enterprise Developer?
Any knowledge on the subject would be appreciated. Thanks.
MSDN has several articles that describe how to set it up for different environments. Look those over and they should give you a good idea of the capabilities.
Thanks for your reply. Now that I got your attention - Do you think the jump fromProfessional toEnterprise Developer edition is worth the money?
Depends so much on what you are doing. To be frank, as an MVP, I get the Enterprise Edition free, so I haven't ever had to consider the tradeoffs. I've always been one who figures that a developer can never have to many toys, though.
Doesn't the enterprise edition also add database tools (server explorer, query designers, etc?) If so, then the answer is a resounding YES, by all means, get it.
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