Microsoft VSS helps you manage your projects, regardless of the file type (text files, graphics files, binary files, sound files, or video files) by saving them to a database. When you need to share files between two or more projects, you can share them quickly and efficiently. When you add a file to VSS, the file is backed up on the database, made available to other people, and changes that have been made to the file are saved so you can recover an old version at any time. Members of your team can see the latest version of any file, make changes, and save a new version in the database.
VSS project organization makes team coordination easy and intuitive; for more information on projects, see Projects and for more information on files, see Files.
When a file (or set of files) is ready to deliver to another person, group, Web site, or any other location, VSS makes it easy to share and secure different versions of the selected set of files.
More and more, developers are accessing VSS functions from within their development environment. VSS can be easily integrated with Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, and other development tools. If VSS is integrated into your development environment, you do not need to run VSS separately to realize the advantages of source code control.
To better understand VSS, see:
You will then be able to begin working with documents including, but not limited to doing the following: