Source Control in Visual C++ 2003

Unfortunetly SCC integration is only available in .Net Professional AFAIK. You'll have to use Perforce manually with the Standard Edition.

Any specific reason why you can't use a CVS type system; or Subversion (although never using it myself). There has to be some sort of OSS Windows CVS server out there; and there is a load of free CVS clients as well. Will save you the trouble of having to get a hold of a *legal* copy of Source control.

AnkhSVN is a VS.NET addin for Subversion. It's not clear if it'll work with VC++ 2003 Standard, though.

I use Toroise. It adds an SVN shell extenion to Windows. You can update and commit right from explorer.

I second that, TortoiseSVN is spectacular...

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

I didn't mention it but I recommend TortoiseSVN as well. I've been using it since last September for all my VS.NET projects (C++, C#), and even homework, including storing Word and LaTeX documents. Of course, diffs don't work with Word documents, but it's still great for working on files from multiple locations such as home and school.

BTW, Subversion and related programs are all free.

Subversion rocks.

Let me make this clear: You can use a version management system for your source code entirely without any native support in the tool VS.NET or whatever.

The only advantages having it integrated are:

- Checkin / checkout / commit /update or whatever from the IDE
- It will automatically NOT commit your binaries, object files, intermediate files etc
- It may automatically add added files into version management etc

You can still use something like Subversion, even if your IDE knows nothing about it. As far as the IDE is concerned, you're working on a local project on your own.

The only issue is to ensure that you commit the right project files etc, not user-specific ones.

Mark

thanks alot guys, you've been very helpful