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Features and Benefits
- High performance back-end
With carefully designed and engineered back-end, Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere can
operate on repositories with large amount of files smoothly.
- All major Visual SourceSafe features are supported
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere is designed to be a better replacement for Visual
SourceSafe. All major features of Visual SourceSafe are supported.
- Familiar GUI with SourceSafe
The GUI of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere is so similar to Visual
SourceSafe that
you can begin using Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere in minutes.
- Fast remote access and source control
Built on technology of Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere for VSS, Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere has fast remote
access performance. Especially with cache server, requested server
files are cached on cache server to speed up client access.
- Painless data migration from SourceSafe
A Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere SourceSafe Import Tool is provided to migrate data from
SourceSafe
easily.
- Improved security
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere is a client/server application,
and thus
there is no need to grant read/write permission of your whole DB
through file system anymore. Password Policy makes your password
strong. 128-bit Blowfish/SSL encryption is used to protect the data.
- Improved web deploy
SourceAnywhere provides a convenient way for Web
project deployment. The Deploy Destination can be on a hard
drive on your local computer, elsewhere on the same LAN as Dynamsoft
SAW Server or on a FTP server.
- Enhanced feature of SourceSafe
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere has many enhancements of SourceSafe operations, such as:
- Strong label management: you can add or
delete items from a label, or change the version of an item in a
label;
- Strong branch management: you can branch
any files or projects from any version to a new location, or branch
from a label;
- Strong versioning support: you can visually
view the whole project tree and any items in the tree from any
version or a label.
- Build Automation
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere integrates with
CruiseControl.NET and ANT to provide continuous integration and
automatic building support.
- Wide IDE integration
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere supports all MSSCCI compatible IDE integrations, such
as Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET and IBM Rational. It also
provides plug-ins for Eclipse and Macromedia Studio.
- Cross Platform
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Java Client can run on any
SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) runs,
such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.
- Enhanced robustness and scalability
Built on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere enables you to
scale up and scale out to meet the needs of even the largest
repository.
- Atomic commit
If an operation on the repository is interrupted in the middle,
your data will not be left in an inconsistent state.
- Strong change set support
A group of related operations can be treated as one single change
set and the version number of all the parent items increases only by
1.
- Reduced repository storage
Powered with our Delta Storage technology, Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere saves only
the difference of each version, so that the storage of repository is
reduced significantly. Delta Storage works on both binary and text
files.
- Easy server-side management
It provides a set of server management tools, including a Server Manager for repository management, a Service Configurator for service
management and a Cache Server Manager for cache server management
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Software Development Kit
Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere provides COM SDK and Java SDK for you to build your own
distributed source control solution.