Whidbey: New SCC tool
Finally! Wooo! Microsoft has written what looks like a decent client/server source code control tool, which will ship with Whidbey. Not that I had anything against VSS — it's always been maligned by people who are completely clueless as to what it can and cannot do [Boo-hoo, my 61.7GB VSS database with binary files just corrupted! What? No, I never ran Analize on it. Boo-hoo, VSS sux], but this is a Very Good Thing. Boy, I hope it has an API. That's the one thing I could never get over with VSS.
This of course begs the question: what happens to SourceGear Vault? We'll see what Erik Sink has to say in the coming days. Given the relationships between MS and their partners, I don't believe for a second that this blindsided him — in fact I'd put some money on them actually having licensed Vault to Microsoft to create this tool.
I'll probably keep using Subversion for little day-to-day projects at home, but I can't wait to use Hatteras in a real project. We'll see if it's better than Subversion (and CVS, which, coincidentally, sucks rocks).
Well this whole TechEd thing is cool because I can talk about the whole Burton (now "Team System") deal, which has been burning holes in my brain since April =)
