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Quentin
Super User

     or others, I would be happy for more hints/tips on using Team Foundation Server (TFS) for SAS source code management.

I'm just about to start playing with it (don't have access yet).  Happy to hear you endorse it, I was thinking it might be painful since the main client is Visual Studio.

Assume the simple case of a directory full of .sas files that want to have version controlled.  Do you create a visual studio project that has links to those .sas files (and perhaps other file types, such as compiled formats and templates), and then do check-in and check-out through visual studio?   Or does your SAS code end up living inside a Visual Project file (doesn't seem like that would really be an option)?   Or do you perhaps use this TFS windows explorer extension to do check-in and check-outs, like you could with TortoiseSVN?

We will still be developing our code in DM SAS or EG or notepad or whatever, with .sas files sitting on a server.  So curious at a simple level how much you have to change your work flow  as a SAS developer to integrate with TFS.

Was at a SAS conference a while back and the pitch for TortoiseSVN was that from the SAS developer perspective, it made version control easy...

Thanks,

--Q.

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Quentin
Super User

Sorry, noticed this old question is officially marked assumed answered, so will start a new thread.

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SASKiwi
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DI Studio is an enterprise data warehousing tool and unless you intend using it widely across your company it would be hard to justify the expense. We looked at it for our department's needs and concluded that BI Server was more than sufficient for our requirements.

Curious to know why you think Vault is not suitable. Going with what your company uses is not a bad option as long as it has the required functionality.

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