
Hitachi Embedded Workshop User Manual
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9.
Using Visual SourceSafe
The Hitachi Embedded Workshop provides specific support for the Visual SourceSafe version control system. At
the time of writing, the HEW can only attach to versions 5 and 6 of Visual SourceSafe.
The Visual SourceSafe version control system associates a project in your workspace with a project inside a
Visual SourceSafe database. It allows you to quickly invoke the standard commands either by selecting an option
from the [Tools->Version Control] sub-menu or by clicking a version control toolbar button.
9.1
Attaching Visual SourceSafe to a Workspace
The following sections describe how you can associate Visual SourceSafe with your current workspace.
9.1.1
Selecting Visual SourceSafe
First, you need to select Visual SourceSafe as the version control system.
To use Visual SourceSafe 5.0 or 6.0:
1. Select [Tools->Version Control->Select…]. The “Select Version Control System” dialog will be
displayed (figure 7.3) which lists all of the supported version control systems.
2. Select the “Visual SourceSafe 5.0/6.0” entry from the Version Control Systems list and click the “Select”
button.
3. Click “OK” to confirm the selection. The SourceSafe Login dialog is displayed (figure 9.1).
4. Enter your Visual SourceSafe login into “Username” and password into “Password”.
5. Enter into Database path the full path to the Visual SourceSafe database (i.e. SRCSAFE.INI) into which
you would like to add this project.
6. Click “OK”. The “Create SourceSafe Project” dialog is invoked (figure 9.2).
7. The “Project name” field displays the name of the project (i.e. folder) to be created in the database. If
necessary you can change this name to another.
8. The tree underneath the “Project name” field shows the structure of the database specified in step 6.
Select the folder into which you would like to create the folder specified in the “Project name” field.
9. Click “OK”.
10. HEW will require you to repeat steps 7-9 for as many projects as are present in the current workspace.
Figure 9.1: SourceSafe Login Dialog