Hi,
For 3 years I have been developing with visual studio on my own. I build web applications locally and update the server as necessary. However recently I have been given another couple of developers to assist me and I was looking for some advice on how to set up a multidevelopment environment. I understand, I need a testing server for all of us to develop on. If I do this, is it possible to provide access to just certain parts of the application and keep certain source code secure? How do I distribute the development tasks for a single web application?
Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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Visual Source Safe is very simple to use.
A testing server would be nice I am just saying it would not be essential, you can install the source safe on the lead developers machine. It all depends how big your budget is.
If you have a very nice budget then look at Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.
This has a built in Source Safe and development task manager and architecture tools and the lot. But it is pricey.
Take a look here from some more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/
Once you have it setup you don't really notice it is there anymore. It integrates with Visual Studio 100% which is great.
A lot of the other products do as well, just make sure whatever you choose integrates well otherwise people tend to slip and not check in code like they should.
Managing a multi developer environment is quite a large topic to discuss.
There are many different systems and policies that people use depnding on maturity of the team, trust levels and so on.
For the quick and easy, install Source Safe, insert projects into source safe and then let everyone check the projects out and back in again. Then after that only code on files that are not checked out and always check everything in at the end of the day...
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by: GavinMannionPosted on 2006-06-22 at 02:24:00ID: 16958307
First get yourself a source safe package. I personally always recommend Visual Source Safe but if you google you will find many.
This stops people editing code that someone else is working on.
In regard to development tasks, a couple of source safe applications have this feature built in, my personal very technical way of doing it is by using a whiteboard and a marker ;)...
Else set yourself up a very small task management website that your developers will then work off.
For ease of use make sure every developer has the same folder structure for your applications (Don't store solution files in source safe either)
You don't really require a test machine. You can all develop locally and then when moving to production you get the latest versions of everything, compile on your machine and deploy.
Let me know if you need more info..