Supporting Source Control
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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Visual Studio supports file checkouts, check-ins, and other source control operations for your project or editor. As a source control client, Visual Studio is designed to interact with a source control package, such as Visual SourceSafe, which provides archiving, versioning, and control facilities for a dynamically defined set of files.
In This Section
Describes the interfaces a project type must implement to support source control.
Provides questions whose answers change how you implement a project type.
Describes how supporting source control changes the implementation of a project type.
Discusses best practices for project types and editors.
Describes how to register a project when a user adds it to a source-control system.
Reference
IVsQueryEditQuerySave2 Indicates to the environment or source control package that a file is about to be changed in memory or saved.
IVsSccManager2 Allows projects and hierarchies to register themselves with source control and obtain information about source control status.
IVsSccProject2 Implemented in a project system to provide source control for project files and project items.
IVsTrackProjectDocuments2 Used by projects to query the environment for permission to add, remove, or rename a file or directory in a solution.
IVsTrackProjectDocumentsEvents2 Notifies clients of changes that were made to project files or directories.
Related Sections
Provides an overview of projects as the basic building blocks of the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Links are provided to additional topics that explain how projects control building and compiling code.