storing source code on server!

[Jeff]

Hey

VS2005 / .NET 2.0

I've been developing an .net 2.0 application. I've used to save this project
to my local C drive on my computer. But I think it is not a good idea to
store source code on the local machine, hdd can crash and then source code
is like history...

So I'm thinking about moving the source code over to a server, so it can be
backed up every day

Are there any issues/pitfalls here? Like VS2005 won't compile the source
code because the source code is not placed on the local machine? any
suggestions ?

Jeff

 

[Marc Gravell]

Work locally; store on a server.

In short, you need a repo, preferably backed up independently; Visual
Studio is closely associated with Visual SourceSafe, however, other
products, and open-source software like subversion (svn) etc exist.
You'll start a holy war if you ask which is best, so I'll just mention
that they exist...

Marc

 

[Jeff]

what do you mean with "Work locally; store on a server"

Do you recommend me to have have the source code on local computer, and copy
it over to a server once in a while... Or store the source code on a server
and work directly on that source code from my local machine???

 

[Marc Gravell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Google for "Project location is not fully trusted." There is a .NET setting
you may have to make.