Source Code Sharing

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Whether you are working on a team or by yourself, you can integrate source code control, code sharing, and code reuse for your projects, simplifying just about any development project. Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe™ and the Code Librarian make it easier to share, reuse, and move your code safely among individual programmers, development teams, and project stages.

Visual SourceSafe is a version control system that makes it possible for you and other team members to share files, modify them independently, and later merge the changes. Visual SourceSafe also saves past versions of the files in a database, tracks the date and time of changes, and provides an option to keep a comment log.

The Code Librarian is a database for code snippets, functions, or modules that might be useful to other developers. You can select functions, change the name, change the description, and specify search criteria. In addition, you can create new code snippets and delete existing ones.

See Also

Designing Code to Be Used Again | What Is Reusable Code? | Writing Reusable Code | Source Code Sharing | Using Source Code Control | Sharing Code with the Code Librarian