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into a large-scale Web development project in which both Dreamweaver users and non-users may be
working together, accessing the same files.
Visual SourceSafe is currently only available on the Windows platforms. Dreamweaver requires that
the Visual SourceSafe version 6 client be installed on the local machine.
After it is set up, the Dreamweaver/VSS integration is virtually seamless. Files are checked in and
out, just as they would be if VSS were not involved. Dreamweaver performs what SourceSafe sees as
an Exclusive file checkout. To enable a Multiple Check Out—which enables several people to check
out the same file—you must go through VSS. Other VSS administrative features, such as Show
History and Differences, must be handled from within SourceSafe by a user with administrator
privileges.
Two Dreamweaver site commands are not accessible with a SourceSafe connection:
Synchronize and Select Newer. In order to use these commands, Dreamweaver must
know how the local system and remote server relate time-wise—are they in the same time zone or is
one behind the other? It’s not feasible in the current implementation to get time stamp information
from a VSS database; consequently, the features that depend on this information are not available.
As noted earlier, the Visual SourceSafe connection is managed through the Site Definition dialog
box. To s ...