The Future of Visual SourceSafe

A few months ago, I mentioned in Roadmap
for SourceSafe and Beyond
 that the SourceSafe feature team is planning
to do more than just fix bugs in the next release of VSS.  I did not provide
too many details.

I can now confirm that a new version of Visual SourceSafe will be included in
the Whidbey release of Visual Studio. 

Here are a handful of previously-unannounced features and feature enhancements
that you can expect to see in the next version of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe:

· Remote
Access
-- The new version of VSS will support remote access through
firewalls via https.  This is similar to an Outlook 2003 feature that enables
people to access mail outside the firewall, without RAS.  Remote access makes
working from a remote location much easier. This includes remote teams (for example,
with offshore development) as well as simpler scenarios like telecommuting or doing
development work while traveling.

· Performance,
Scalability, and
Productivity --
The new version of Visual SourceSafe will include improved performance and scalability
for large projects and will make common operations faster and asynchronous, so you
can start working more quickly on large projects and be productive while source control
transfers are taking place.

· Other
New Features
 -- SourceSafe Whidbey will include improved merging
UI, support for Unicode file content viewing and merging, re-vamped source control
for web service and web site projects, and a “check out local version” feature.

· Future
Announcements
-- We will provide more information about the next version
of SourceSafe in the coming months.

Stay tuned.

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