The reason most people advise to do separate repositories is because it separates out changes and change sets. If someone makes a change to the client projects (which you say doesn’t really effect others), there is no reason for someone to update the entire code base. They can simply just get the changes from the … Read more
Try deleting your .user and .suo files – these are the user options files that VS creates. You get a .user file for each project and a .suo file for your solution. When they get corrupted, odd things happen. Deleting them will make you lose little things like which project is selected as the startup … Read more
From Visual Studio, if you have no solution open, you can select File->New->Project From Existing Code Select the project type Put the directory you want the solution and project file to be in as the “Project file location” field. Finish the wizard and you’ll have a project file and solution file in the same directory. … Read more
I think the way you describe in the question is the only way you can do it in sourceSafe. I usually name the copied directory “V1.0” (or whatever is appropriate) and keep them all in a folder that is the main project name.
Let’s compare two examples, one development environment that uses source control, and one that doesn’t. A: Does Use B: Does not Use Scenario 1: A project is requested, completed, and rolled out A + B) Programmers develop the project internally, when it’s completed, push it out to testing, and then deliver to the client (whoever … Read more
See: List of Source Control Systems with Visual Studio Plugins Visual Studio is just an IDE. You can use any source control solution that you want with it. Any open source source control solution in particular, like git, mercurial (hg) or subversion (svn). And there are commercial products like Perforce or SourceGear Vault. See here … Read more
Reliability SVN is a lot more reliable with large databases SVN is still actively supported Atomic commit – in VSS when you get latest version while another user is performing checkin, you can get an inconsistent state, forcing you to repeat the “Get latest version” in better case, but sometimes when unlucky you may be … Read more