Microsoft Office 2000 Developer

Using Source Code Control

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Microsoft Office 2000 Developer provides source code control using Microsoft^® Visual SourceSafe™. This tool is available on the Office 2000 Developer CD. With Visual SourceSafe, you can:

• See which objects are checked out.
  
  
• Check out an object and make changes to it.
  
  
• Check in an object so other developers can get your changes.
  
  
• View a history of changes for each object or the entire database.
  
  
• Visually compare differences between versions of an object.
  
  
• Version objects and revert to a previous version of an object (even deleted objects).
  
  
• Merge differences between different versions of an object.
  
  
• Easily synchronize to the latest versions of all objects.

As a stand-alone developer, source code control gives you the immediate benefits of versioning. You might have made some recent changes and then decided to revert back to an earlier version. With Visual SourceSafe, you can easily recover the previous code.

Each time you begin a new Office application, you can benefit from source code control by using Visual SourceSafe. If you are part of a team developing a large application, automated source code control provides a significant advantage. When many people work together to create, support, and update source code files for a large application, the coordination of files and updates is a complex process. Visual SourceSafe provides stable, easy-to-use source code management to keep the team's developers in sync with each other's changes.

The following sections acquaint you with how to install and use Visual SourceSafe with your Office application.

• Setting Up Visual SourceSafe
  
  
• Choosing the Right Source Code Control Add-In
  
  
• Using the Visual SourceSafe Add-In with the Visual Basic Environment

For additional information about using Visual SourceSafe, see the Visual SourceSafe documentation.