Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
    • Introducing Visual SourceSafe
    • Installing VSS
    • Using the Visual SourceSafe Administrator
    • Using the Visual SourceSafe Explorer
    • Creating Your First VSS Project
    • Using the Integrated SourceSafe Tools in Visual Studio .NET
    • Viewing the History of a File in SourceSafe
    • Opening an Existing SourceSafe Project
    • Adding New Project Items or Projects
    • Renaming Projects or Project Items
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Q&A

1. You didn't discuss working on ASP.NET applications. Why not?

   The SourceSafe process is the same for any type of application. The same capabilities you learned about today using a Windows Forms application work with ASP.NET applications, deployment projects, and add-in projects—basically all project types available in .NET are capable of being stored in SourceSafe.

2. I have deleted a file in my solution, but when I go back to the SourceSafe Explorer, it keeps showing back up. What am I doing wrong?

   You aren't doing anything wrong; you just skipped a step. Any time you delete a file from the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you must go to the SourceSafe Explorer and delete the file from there also.

3. I'm using Visual Studio .NET, but not the Architect version. Can I buy SourceSafe separately?

   Yes. SourceSafe is a regular retail product from Microsoft and can be purchased from shop.microsoft.com or any software reseller.

4. I like the Visual Studio .NET integration, but I actually need to manage SourceSafe from the SourceSafe Administrator and the SourceSafe Explorer. Can I get information about this stuff online?

   There are two good places to learn more about SourceSafe. The first is the .NET Framework SDK. Do a search for Source Control, and you'll find some documentation. In addition, there's an Architect Developer center on MSDN that has an article series about SourceSafe. The link is

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp

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