> Is anyone using Team Foundation Server for source control of Visual FoxPro

> projects? Any pros and cons on using it?

>

If you view TFS merely as a source control tool, it's not the best choice

for you. At the last FoxPro conference I met a team leader who finds TFS to

be a fantastic tool: They have three TFS admins, eight people doing the

merging and three dozen developers (.NET and VFP). For them TFS is the

right tool.

TFS is designed to get into the way of the individual developer. It's

designed to have separate roles for administration and developers. It's

designed to be used in a certain process. Source control is really just one

aspect of TFS. If that's not what you want, you'll spend the time fighting

TFS.

If you want source control that is similar to TFS (check out, work, check

in) get SourceGear Vault. It's stable, it's mature and it works very well.

It's a centralized system, quick to setup and administer and in general

very easy to learn for developers who haven't work with source code control.

If you are willing to learn the distributed way, there are more and cheaper

options. I use Git, many here use Mercurial. And more options become

available every day. However, you need to be aware that distributed source

control is a bit more complex to use than traditional server based

products. There are also more options, like branching that I'm using

extensively now, that require time to master them.

Distributed systems just like the CVS/SVN based predecessors only work well

with text documents which adds one more level of complexity for VFP

developers due to VCX/SCX conversion.

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Christof

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