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Hi



Sorry for this OT post.

What is the norm when you have to use 2 or more machines when you develop? I

use a workstation as my main developer machines, but quite often I need to

use my laptop instead for variouse reasons. How does people tend to handle

the issue with saving y our source code. I guess that I could use sourcesafe

on my fileserver, but what do people normally do? Save projects to a

fileshare or do you store files locally and move it between machines?



/JD


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JD,



On a regular basis I am developing on 6 different machines in 3 geographical

locations.



Using a flash drive to store my source code has worked great for me. The

flash drive is always with me and can be plugged into any USB port and just

works.



I open/modify/save directly to the flash drive and back it up on a regular

basis.



Kerry Moorman





"Jon Doe" wrote:

I have a drive on my home network that houses all the source code -

regardless of the machine I'm using, I open the project from the

network. That way my network backup always catches the current source

code. Key point though, my execution path is local on each machine I use.



T



Jon Doe wrote:

I develop in VMWare virtual machines (one per customer).

These virtual machines are located on an external HD, so I can work on

whatever machine I want (just have to install the VMWare player to work

with it). Every night this disk is backuped to tape.



VSS (or another source control program) is needed when

- you work with more than one developer

- if you want to have sourcecode history.



I use VSS because of the second reason (and in some cases for the first

one).



tomb wrote:

What do you mean by that your execution path is local? How do you do this in

practice?



"tomb" <tomb@technetcenter.com>wrote in message

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Go to the project properties, expand Configuration Properties, click on

Build. In the Output Path, put a local folder that will be the same on

every machine you use to work on the project. Then you can have all the

source code on a network drive. When you run it in debug mode, it will

build and execute from the local drive you selected, so you don't get

the permission error.



Have fun!



Tom



Jon Doe wrote: