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Bower.io vs. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bower
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Bower is a package manager for the web. Web sites are made of lots of things — frameworks, libraries, assets, and utilities. Bower manages these. Keeping track of all these packages and making sure they are up to date (or set to the specific versions you need) can be tricky. Bower helps with this also. Bower can manage components that contain HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts or even image files. Bower doesn’t concatenate or minify code or do…N/A
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Visual SourceSafe is a discontinued source control software offering, from Microsoft.N/A
Pricing
Bower.ioMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BowerMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Bower.ioMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Considered Both Products
Bower

No answer on this topic

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Azure DevOps is a much better, more modern tool that Visual SourceSafe and everyone should be moving to it. Most if not all the integration that is there can be done or emulated in it.
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kyle Kochtan
Technical Lead
Chose Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
We selected Microsoft Visual SourceSafe because at the time none of these other products were out there. Now we are trying to migrate all our legacy code from Visual SourceSafe to Azure DevOps. Unfortunately we don't have a value proposition for some of the older products so …
Cristian Bodnarasec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cristian Bodnarasec
Senior Software Development Manager
Chose Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Git is a much more elaborated tool for file versioning than Visual SourceSafe. It has superior performance and stability, it is cross-platform, distributed, it gives you a better User Interface (if you choose to buy Bitbucket), it allows you to have big projects with big teams, …
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Bower.ioMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
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User Ratings
Bower.ioMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
3.8
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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4.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bower.ioMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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The only time I could recommend Microsoft Visual SourceSafe would be for a beginner who has a small amount of code that they would like to keep track of. This solution would not be recommended for an enterprise or any shop where you have multiple developers working on the same solution.
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kyle Kochtan
Technical Lead
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Pros
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  • avoid losing code
  • versioning of previous projects
  • saving versions on db
Luca Campanelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luca Campanelli
Senior Betting & Online DB Administrator
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Cons
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  • Becoming corrupt and having to be rebuild from a previous version.
  • It can be extremely slow to check in & out of.
  • Lost support several years ago from Microsoft.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
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Overall Microsoft Visual Source Safe is very easy to use. It is a simple application that does only one thing. It has the basic windows tree structure for listing projects and solutions. There is no way to search for a particular file, project or solution. There is also no way to search the code in the files.
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kyle Kochtan
Technical Lead
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Support Rating
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There is no longer support for Visual SourceSafe as I believe it's been retired. There are, however, users that still use the tool and they do help if there are questions or complaints.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
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Azure DevOps is a much better, more modern tool that Visual SourceSafe and everyone should be moving to it. Most if not all the integration that is there can be done or emulated in it
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
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  • When we started using it, it allowed us to do source code versioning and store the code in a centralized location and not locally.
  • We are using it for very few projects with few developers that still maintain those applications and do not have time to merge the source code to Git.
Cristian Bodnarasec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cristian Bodnarasec
Senior Software Development Manager
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