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

Exercises

1. Create a new project in Visual Studio .NET and add it to SourceSafe. After the solution is added to SourceSafe and the project items are checked in, close Visual Studio .NET and delete the entire folder of the project you just created from the Visual Studio Projects folder. Next, reopen Visual Studio .NET. From the File menu, select Source Control, Open From Source Control. Your project should be restored to the state it was in before you deleted the project folder.
2. Create a new ASP.NET Web application. Use the various menu items in the IDE to add files and delete files after you've added the solution to SourceSafe. Notice how the capabilities you have in the ASP.NET application are the same as the Windows Forms application.
3. Open the Visual SourceSafe Administrator. From the Archive menu, familiarize yourself with the archiving capabilities of SourceSafe. Notice you can also delete files after they are archived, thus reclaiming space used for projects that are already rolled out.
4. From this day forward, use SourceSafe for every new project you create in Visual Studio .NET.

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