… and the end of Visual SourceSafe. Brian Harry blogged about this recently. His post explains the early days of SourceSafe and the idea of bringing easy version control to developers. In the 3rd generation of Visual Studio Team System this concept returns in the form of TFS Basic. It is Team Foundation Server without components such as Windows Sharepoint Services and SQL Reporting Services but it does provide functionality for version control, builds and simple work items. The installation is supposed to be just 2 Gb and takes 20 minutes to complete. You can even install it on your laptop if you are doing a disconnected development project solo where you want to use version control. And if your TFS Basic is to be used by the entire organization, you can simply “reconfigure” the instance and make it a full-blown Team Foundation Server.

All of this will be publicly available in TFS 2010 Beta2, which is just around the corner. And since Beta2 can go-live you can actually have this functionality in the real world very soon.

Check out Brian’s post for more information.