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PRESENTS Make the Switch: How to Make Your Life Easier with SourceAnywhere Standalone
Most developers are familiar with Visual SourceSafe Its a popular version control tool for the Windows platform that offers essential version control features and helps promote team collaboration While Visual Source Safe VSS does some things well, its not optimized for remote access and hampers developer productivity because it can be so slow It also lacks critical security features, suffers from stability issues, and doesnt support multiple platforms Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Standalone is a version control solution designed to replace VSS Its a SQL-based application that offers all the functionality of VSS, plus a variety of additional features that make it a more comprehensive, reliable solution for software development teams This white paper offers an overview of why SourceAnywhere Standalone is a better choice than VSS for: System Administrators Developers Web Developers

10 Ways to Make Your System Administrators Life Better Promise Painless Installation
SourceAnywhere Standalone has very low system dependency That means it doesnt need a framework, virtual machine runtime or
web server to run Your System Administrator will be able to get SourceAnywhere Standalone up and running in your organization in a matter of minutes

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Offer Effortless Backup
All your data is stored in SQL Server, with the exception of SourceAnywhere Standalones service configuration and SQL Server connection parameters This makes backup a snap Simply use your favorite SQL Server backup tool, or you can write a script in SQL Server for automatic backup Because SQL Server supports online backup, you dont need to schedule a time to take your database offline to complete the backup

Provide Reliable Remote Management
Thanks to the addition of a new Service Manager, the latest release of SourceAnywhere Standalone lets you manage the application remotely

Complete Scalability
What development team doesnt demand high performance and scalability? As your team and repository grow, theres no need to frequently upgrade your hardware because SourceAnywhere Standalone scales to meet your ever-growing needs

Lower Network Bandwidth Requirements
Bandwidth is always a concern for system administrators if remote access is involved As such,
SourceAnywhere Standalone employs technologies that cut down on bandwidth demands An optional cache server can further boost remote access performance and improve productivity for distributed development teams

Be Firewall Friendly
SourceAnywhere Standalone is firewall friendly You can specify your own port for the server Or, simply use HTTP port 80

Make Database Migration Simple
If youre going to make the switch from VSS, it needs to be pain free SourceAnywhere Standalone includes a VSS database migration tool that makes the transition easy

Provide Better Security
A downside of VSS is that it requires you to expose your VSS database file system to every user, and grants each user read and write permission for the entire repository This

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is a risky proposition Security becomes even more compromised when VSS users work remotely and access the repository over Internet With SourceAnywhere Standalone you dont need to expose your repositorys file system Unlike VSS, our remote access feature uses a client/server architecture that does not publicly expose the file system–only the SourceAnywhere Standalone server interface is
ever exposed Additionally, you wont need a VPN for remote access because SSL is already built-in To further boost security, SourceAnywhere Standalone allows administrators to assign granular access privileges for each user This policy-based access system minimizes the chance that users will accidentally or malevolently modify source code they shouldnt be working on If password strength is a concern, SourceAnywhere Standalone provides a robust password policy to help beef-up existing passwords

Eliminate Database Analysis and Fixes
Breath easy knowing SourceAnywhere Standalone guarantees repository integrity Theres no need to analyze or fix the repository

Offer Version Control Tools Unification
SourceAnywhere Standalone can unify version control tools across your entire organization It doesnt matter if your teams develop on Windows, Linux, Mac or another operating system, SourceAnywhere supports them all

A Dozen Reasons Why Developers Should Switch to SourceAnywhere Theres Virtually No Learning Curve
If youre familiar with VSS youll be able to start using SourceAnywhere Standalone right away Its familiar UI minimizes the learning curve so that you can get started in a matter of
minutes

Easy Data Migration
We want you to switch, so weve included a VSS database migration tool that makes

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your transition as easy and straightforward as possible The tool guarantees that the entire history of your projects will be safe

Faster Remote Access
SourceAnywhere Standalone is optimized for local and remote access so you wont have to wait to connect

Sophisticated Project Versioning
VSS supports file versioning, but the functionality stops there For example, if you make changes to a file in VSS and then check in, the files version number goes up, but the version number of the parent project stays the same Thi s poses a problem If you dont apply a label before checking in the file, its virtually impossible to return the entire project back to the state it was in before the file was checked in SourceAnywhere Standalone supports both file and project versioning That means whenever files or projects are changed, not only will the version numbers of current files and projects increase, but the version numbers of all parent projects–right back to the root–will increase accordingly

You Get a True Version
History
SourceAnywhere Standalone supports both file and project versioning, so it records all histories in your repository You can access view, get, diff, label, branch, pin and roll back in the history

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Flexible History Search
SourceAnywhere offers flexible, sophisticated search Search by: version or item, date range, user, file name, action type and comment

Sophisticated Label Support
The label options are endless: assign a label to the latest version, or any old version; add items file or project to an existing label; remove items from an existing label; change version numbers of any items in an existing label; rename a label; delete the label; branch from the label, or visually view the structure of the label

Better Branch/Merge Support
In SourceAnywhere Standalone you can branch from the latest version, an old version, or a labeled version You can also merge the branches back because it remembers every merge and branch path Heres how it works During the merge process, the version at the branch point is served as the base version If any conflicts exist in the two different branches, a visual merge tool will be
called to let you solve the conflict

Enhanced Diff Support
Diff support lets you compare a working folder/file to the last version retrieved from the repository, the current version in the repository, any labeled file or project, any local file/folder, or any repository file/project

Atomic Commit-No Lost Transactions
Transaction completion is always a concern with version control solutions Rest easy, your data will never be half cocked, even when theres a server power failure Because your operation is being carried out on SQL Server, it will either be completed or fully rolled back

Change Set Support
In SourceAnywhere Standalone, one operation acts as a single change set That means no matter how many files or projects are included in an operation, the version number of the parent projects will only increase by one 1 Users can easily view which files and project are in a change set in the Show History dialog box

IDE Integration
SourceAnywhere Standalone is Optimized for Microsoft Visual Studio NET certified

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It also supports SQL Server stored procedure version control, Eclipse Plug-in on multiple platforms, and
Dreamweaver on Windows

Cross-Platform Support
In addition to a Windows client, a Java client enables developers to access code repositories from any operating system that supports the J2SE Java runtime environment, including Mac, Linux, and others

Special Features for Web Developers Differential Web Deployment
SourceAnywhere Standalone supports differential web deployment to local folders or remote FTP sites This is beneficial because a common site can contain hundreds or even thousands of files Using SourceAnywhere you can avoid the onerous task of uploading all the files to a web site In other cases, web developers or administrators may need to record which files have been changed since the last upload This feature negates this time consuming and error prone process by detecting which files have changed and which were added since the last upload Then, it only uploads the files that need to be uploaded It does this regardless of whether the web site is a local or a remote FTP site

Multiple Web Sites Deployment
SourceAnywhere Standalone supports multiple web sites for one project, a useful feature when youre running a test site in addition to the production site First, upload
your web project to the test site If youre happy with the results, upload it again to your production site

Dreamweaver, Eclipse and Visual Studio Integration
Whether you use Dreamweaver, Eclipse, or Visual Studio, you can access your SourceAnywhere Standalone server without leaving your IDE

Supports Windows, Mac and Other Platforms
SourceAnywhere Standalone supports multiple platforms: Windows, Mac, and others

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Fast Image/Multimedia File Upload and Download
Image and multimedia files are often larger than source code and can take much longer to upload and download SourceAnywhere Standalone uses Delta Transfer and compression to guarantee faster upload and download of your large files Whether youre a systems administrator, developer or web developer, SourceAnywhere Standalone offers dependable version control with features designed to make your lives easier Its time to make the switch

All Dynamsoft brand and SourceAnywhere product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Dynamsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries All other trademarks or registered trademarks including Microsoft, SourceSafe,
Linux and others are property of their respective owners

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