Viewing the History of a Source Control Item

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A source control program keeps a record of all the versions of the items that you added to source control. You can check the history records on these items with some source control systems. In the Microsoft development environment, you can check the history of a source control item without leaving the development environment.

With Visual SourceSafe, the history of an item includes: the version, the user, the date, and the action. For more information on the History feature of Visual SourceSafe, see the Visual SourceSafe documentation.

Note   Viewing the history of an item is not available in Visual InterDev.

To view the history of a source control item in the development environment

1. In the Project Explorer, select the item.
   
   
2. On the Project menu, point to Source Control, and then click History.

   Your source control program displays the history of the item.

3. In Visual SourceSafe, the History Options dialog box appears. Pick any options and then click OK.

   Visual SourceSafe displays the history for the selected item in the History dialog box.