Supporting Source Control

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Visual Studio supports file checkouts, check-ins, and other source control operations for your project or editor. As a source control client, Visual Studio is designed to interact with a source control package, such as Visual SourceSafe, which provides archiving, versioning, and control facilities for a dynamically defined set of files.

In This Section

Model for Source Control Packages
Describes the interfaces a project type must implement to support source control.

Design Decisions
Provides questions whose answers change how you implement a project type.

Configuration Details
Describes how supporting source control changes the implementation of a project type.

Additional Guidelines for Projects and Editors
Discusses best practices for project types and editors.

Runtime Details
Describes how to register a project when a user adds it to a source-control system.

Reference

IVsQueryEditQuerySave2
Indicates to the environment or source control package that a file is about to be changed in memory or saved.

IVsSccManager2
Allows projects and hierarchies to register themselves with source control and obtain information about source control status.

IVsSccProject2
Implemented in a project system to provide source control for project files and project items.

IVsTrackProjectDocuments2
Used by projects to query the environment for permission to add, remove, or rename a file or directory in a solution.

IVsTrackProjectDocumentsEvents2
Notifies clients of changes that were made to project files or directories.

Project Types
Provides an overview of projects as the basic building blocks of the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Links are provided to additional topics that explain how projects control building and compiling code.