hello all,

can anyone offer a good development environment setup for > 3 developers
using a central source safe database? i would like to have the following:

clients using the developer edition (i see issues with using XP, anyone
recommend loading win2k3 on the clients?).
1 source safe db for all to share

anyone with any experience and an environment like this who could offer some
advice?

i thank you,

doug

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Hi Doug,

We're running a limited shared environment with stand alone instances of
the Developer Edition on Windows Server 2003 development machines checking
into a central VSS repository.  The reason for going with Windows Server
2003 was driven by the connection limitations in IIS 5.1 on Windows XP and
the nuances between IIS 5.1 and 6.0 that we needed to take into account befo
re
going to testing (e.g. the way application pools deliver identity to the
application, etc...).

From my understanding, Developer Edition is supposed to mirror the functiona
lity
of Enterprise Edition with a limitation in the number of processors running.
If that is truly the case then you could either go with stand-alone environm
ents
where people check source code into a central VSS repository or use a shared
database amongst all of the developers (an approach that is used with Conten
t
Management Server development -- see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...haredDevEnv.asp).
The decision will likely rely on what each of your developer's role is withi
n
the project.  If you have someone working on future deliverables while someo
ne
else is working on maintenance of a current release then you will probably
want stand-alone instances on each environment.

In a testing environment you will want to consider the use of a Virtual Serv
er
or Virtual PC instance to simulate a production environment.  There have
been several times where we have deployed to the testing environment only
to find out a nuance caused by SQL Server residing on a separate server.

Hope that helps,
Colin


> hello all,
>
> can anyone offer a good development environment setup for > 3
> developers using a central source safe database? i would like to have
> the following:
>
> clients using the developer edition (i see issues with using XP,
> anyone
> recommend loading win2k3 on the clients?).
> 1 source safe db for all to share
> anyone with any experience and an environment like this who could
> offer some advice?
>
> i thank you,
>
> doug
>

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