Essential Sourcesafe

by Ted Roche and Larry C. Whipple

Essential SourceSafe is the training aid and reference manual for casual users, software developers and SourceSafe administrators, covering a broad spectrum of topics, from the basics of installation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930919050
• ISBN13: 9781930919051
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Must Have!

This book is really the only good source of information for SourceSafe. It is invaluable for all software development shops who use this product for source control. It explains many details that are not documented or documented less than satisfactory. No doubt, this book is a must-have!

An essential book for working with Visual Source Safe

I have found it difficult to find books that provide good information for automating various products. This is one of those rare books. In a fairly large project it became necessary to automate Visual Source Safe for some data versioning and storage. Without this book it would have taken weeks to get everything working correctly. Mr Roche's clear and succinct information regarding the automation of VSS was invlauable in getting this project completed. This is an excellent and very useful book.

Outstanding Book

This is a wonderful book that condenses all of the information that I needed to get up and running "properly" with SourceSafe. It is a good reading as well as excellent reference book. I have referred back to it many times since my initial read. Great job Ted!

A must-read!

Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is a complex product. There are a lot of ways you can use it, and you can find yourself fighting with the product rather than working with it if you don't completely understand how it works.Ted does a great job of explaining the basics of VSS and how to use it properly. Then he really digs in and explains the advanced concepts necessary to make the most out of it. It's obvious the depth of his knowledge on this product is very deep indeed.If you use VSS, this is a must-read book!

The nuts and bolts - truly exhaustive

Some authors would take advantage of the dearth of books on a particular topic, and simply "cash-in" by cranking out a one-of-a-kind title with anemic, poorly researched and incomplete content. Fortunately, Mr. Roche hasn't taken the easy way out, instead choosing to draw upon his own apparently extensive experience working on a daily basis with VSS, and delving into it's workings under-the-hood, exposing both how to make effective use of this invaluable tool, and traps that lurk for the unwary developer or project manager.It's unfortunate that it has taken this long for a quality book on this subject to appear. Many thanks to Mr. Roche and his publisher for producing a reference that is my constant companion in configuring and using VSS in our shop.I've known of many developers who have given up on using VSS in their shops, instead choosing to find other (often more costly and ineffective) methods of dealing with version control and trying to manage collaboration in multi-developer projects. This book could have allowed them to confidently deploy and implement a VSS installation.