Visual Source Safe

[gob]

Hello
I have recently purchased EA and MDG Integration for Visual Studio 2005.
I’m going to use EA for all my projects.
Is Visual Source Safe 2005 a good choice for version control?
I’m going to use EA both for embed systems and windows programming.
For the embedded systems I’m going to use IAR’s tools.
Is it a good idea to have three tools at the same time or should I use only EA and IAR tools.
Does source safe work in this configuration?
Regards Göran

[Lode]

Visual source safe can be useful if you're the only person working on a project and the project is not too big.

When working with multiple people in different time zones, SS becomes unusable. When the project becomes quite big, SS isn't stable enough to handle the database appropriatly. SVN is good for such projects.

[OwenInCanada]

I'm curious gob,

How did you choose IAR?
I am considering a similar workflow:
EA -> something -> embedded system

Did you want to use VS2005 because of the nice interface or some software reason? If its the interface, I do know that the Rowley Crossworks looks a lot like Visual Studio IDE so a two-tool solution might be EA  + Rowley. But I don't know how smoothly that works. (Crossworks uses C, but not C++.)

I'm interested to hear back what your tool choices were and how it's working together.

Thanks,

Owen