INTRODUCTION FUNCTIONAL REQUIRMENTS LITERATURE REVIEW ALTERNATIVES FREE WARES TO VSS WHAT IS SMART CLIENT?
ANALYSIS SYSTEM DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM LIMITATIONS FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS | Why Thin Client?
Features · Thin Client will be a web based addon to Visual Source Safe that will allow the User to use all of the common source safe features from his web browser. · It will also integrate with Visual Studio to enable remote access to the corporate VSS database from anywhere in the world as if the User is still in the office. · The user will not need any client to be installed on his local machine in order to access the VSS Database. [http://www.iis-resources.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=78&lid=391]
CONCLUSION VSS Smart and Thin Client application will integrate the above mentioned Smart Client features and the Thin Client features with Visual SourceSafe. Although all of the features of Visual SourceSafe are not implemented, I have tried to implement its main features such as check-in and check-out model, version controlling by labeling a Project and also management of files and projects will be done in the application. · The Smart Client feature is new and is provided in .Net Framework 2.0 released with Visual Studio 2005. · VSS Smart and Thin Client application will reduce the Network Load on the Visual Source Database. · VSS Smart Client will be caching the most frequently used projects by a developer on his own system and then asynchronously synchronize the local and remote VSS Database. · The user requests will be served from the local cached VSS Database thus resulting in better performance. · The synchronization between the local cache and Remote VSS Database will be done by Web Services. These Web Services will use SOAP Messages and pass XML Files to synchronize local cache and remote database.
· The Thin Client will be used to access the VSS Database using a web browser. · The user will not need any client to be installed on his local machine in order to access the VSS Database. |