Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)	Score 1.0 out of 10	N/A	Visual SourceSafe is a discontinued source control software offering, from Microsoft.	N/A

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	Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued) Verified User Manager 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. Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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, … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	1.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	3.8 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	4.2 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Discontinued Products I would not recommend Visual SourceSafe to anyone out there as there are so many better, more modern solutions that do what it does and much more. Visual SourceSafe should be retired in most cases. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Discontinued Products At this point in its lifecycle there are not many things VSS does well Its main strength would be its ability to be self contained on a local drive It is a basic Code repository Incentivized Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Discontinued Products The system stability could be improved. Often we get file corrupted errors. The User Interface is not modern and not user-friendly. Concurrent check-outs could be added, allowing more people to work on the same file at the same time. Add conflict resolution, files comparison, blame file, features that any modern source control program should have. Incentivized Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Read full review
Usability	Discontinued Products The current status of Visual SourceSafe is not usable. There are many things that are just so out of the date that it should be retired and not looked at any longer. If you have an existing application that is stored in it, I'd consider migrating it to a modern tool. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Discontinued Products It's a Microsoft product so the customer support is great. The program has been around a long time so there are plenty of places on line to get assistance. Also almost any development shop you go to will have at least one developer who has used this product extensively in their career. Incentivized Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Discontinued Products Incentivized Luca Campanelli Senior Betting & Online DB Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Discontinued Products 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. Incentivized Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Read full review
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