These are section of Microsoft Visual Studio and is available only in Windows platforms; yet, the client for Metrowerks CodeWarrior on a Macintosh existed at one time & allowed the have of VSS within Macintosh development projects.

Opinions in Visual SourceSafe diverge. Occasionally coder sense that these are sluggish, drives patterns instability & is missing features assume in fresh revision control systems. A perceived sluggishness of Visual Studio depends greatly on the environment where these are install. Inside individual user & little team LAN configurations, it may be reasonably convenient. the instability criticism is rooted in the fact that Visual SourceSafe utilizes the file depending archive architecture where any client might upgrade a file in the archive when "locking it". Whenever a client machine crashes midmost of updating such file, the file can turn into corrupted. Several users of Visual SourceSafe develop in this limitation by regularly backing higher a database & applying a utility provided using Visual SourceSafe which checks the database for corruption & might fix certain errors. Numerous little teams (in Fin humans) use utilized Visual SourceSafe successfuly for the total of years forgoing ever getting such the corruption. All a same, because revision control is such a vital activity for software models development teams, the mere possiblity of such an unsuitable event (yet little it can be) has the consequence of discouraging expected users & contributing to their veto opinion of the system. Visual SourceSafe's hard points include its first-class integration by using Visual Studio, its easily to have interface & a fact that these are involved when section of certain MSDN Subscriptions.

Microsoft is in the run of creating the fresh pack known as Team Foundation Server. This product may location numerous of Visual SourceSafe's defect which will make it suitable for big enterprise teams demanding increased stability. Visual SourceSafe might prove my point to become offered as a retail product & a share of certain MSDN Subscriptions.