Source Code Sharing in VB .Net

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Appr3nt1c3

Hello everyone,

Is there a software that can be used to share source codes among
developers? We are a team of programmers and we would like to be able
to share the updated source codes so that anyone among us can make
changes. But compilation will only be done by a single person.

Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance,

Rey
 
CVS is a version control package which can be used to facilitate concurrent
development among many developers.
We use a plugin made by pushok to integrate CVS into developer studio.
CVS is a freely available open source app.
The pushok plugin for developer studio is not free but can be had for the
price of a couple of cups of coffee at starbucks.

Erik
 
Appr3nt1c3 said:
Hello everyone,

Is there a software that can be used to share source codes among
developers? We are a team of programmers and we would like to be able
to share the updated source codes so that anyone among us can make
changes. But compilation will only be done by a single person.

Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance,

Rey
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Have you had a look at Microsoft SourceSafe? Takes a bit of managing but
works ok for us
 
Have you had a look at Microsoft SourceSafe? Takes a bit of managing but
works ok for us
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Yes, and I wouldn't touch it with a 10 (insert you unit here) pole. VSS is
terrible for teams. It's fine for a single developer type thing, but if you
have more then a couple of developers then it becomes a nightmare in many
ways.

First, VSS relies on file sharing, so that every user has to have read write
access to the repository folder. Not nice from a security standpoint.

VSS does not perform its actions in a transactional, automic method.
Basically, what that means is, that if you are commiting changes from 5
different files in you solution and you loose connection after the 2nd file
(assuming that it doesn't corrupt your database - another problem with vss)
then you source is now in a indeterminate state. And don't even talk to me
about vss's stupid automic locking (I know you can make it so that a file can
be checked out by multiple devs - but, with it's extreamly poor merge support
you taking a big risk if you turn that on)...

And to top it off - vss is slow.

Personally, I recommend something like Subversion (svn) for you source
control. Fast, efficient, transactional.
 
Hi Erik,

Where can i find CVS?

Thanks

Rey

CVS is a version control package which can be used to facilitate concurrent
development among many developers.
We use a plugin made by pushok to integrate CVS into developer studio.
CVS is a freely available open source app.
The pushok plugin for developer studio is not free but can be had for the
price of a couple of cups of coffee at starbucks.

Erik









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Tom,

In the case as the question from the OP "so that only one person can make
changes" it is even very good (however without that question in my opinion
as well).

I am using VSS a longtime and beside some strange things like fixed naming
conventions as if the development team of VSS are by instance some Mono
guys), it is very well to use and it has saved me many times from disasters.

Cor
 
Tom,

In the case as the question from the OP "so that only one person can make
changes" it is even very good (however without that question in my opinion
as well).

I am using VSS a longtime and beside some strange things like fixed naming
conventions as if the development team of VSS are by instance some Mono
guys), it is very well to use and it has saved me many times from disasters.

Cor
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I've used VSS as well. And now I use Subversion. It's just as easy to use,
and does a better job faster and more reliably. Besides, in subversion I can
actually rename a file without loosing it's history....
 
Besides, in subversion I can
actually rename a file without loosing it's history....
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I believe you Tom when you write something, although this one shows even
moore that you are an expirienced user.

:-)

Cor
 
| Is there a software that can be used to share source codes among
| developers? We are a team of programmers and we would like to be able
| to share the updated source codes so that anyone among us can make
| changes. But compilation will only be done by a single person.

In .NET? Yeah, it's called a decompiler. <g>
 
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