I've been brought onto a new project and there's a file that lays out
the preferred method of obtaining the source code.
This file starts as follows:
"Do not get the source for the web project throught SourceSafe explorer
or Visual Studio will attempt to open the web project from wwwroot, not
your work directory."
If I understand this correctly (by no means a certainty) it's saying
that storing your source code in C:\Inetpub\wwwr oot\MyProject is a Bad
Thing.
The file goes on to explain about creating the folder structure in a
different, preferred Projects area on your system.
"Create the directory structure where you want to put the web client
source, for example d:\Work\MyProje ct\Source\MyPro ject.Client.
Share that folder as a virtual directory with the name matching the
project name (do this either through IIS console or in windows
explorer). You'll now have a empty directory.
Now open Visual Studio. Use File -> Source Control -> Open from source
control... to load the solution and projects onto your local machine."
This is not how I've been doing things for the past four years. My
C:\Inetpub\wwwr oot folder stores the source code for dozens of
projects.
Have I been making a fundamental mistake? Is there de facto something
Wrong, or Bad, about using this location to store Source?
Thanks
Edward