New VS2005 client versus existing VS2003 client

cac123 · Post by **cac123** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:44 pm

Could someone spell out the major differences between the existing Vault VS2003 client and the new VS2005 client. I keep seeing a love and hate posts and was curious just how much different the new client is. Does it support the same source control modes (VSS / CVS)?

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:39 pm

Those 2 terms, VS 2003 client and VS 2005 client, indicate which interface you will be making use of. One is MCSCCI, which we call the VS 2003 client, and the other is VSIP, which is the VS 2005 client. MCSCCI is what most Microsoft products use and was the only one up to VS 2005. VSIP is only available in VS 2005. MCSCCI is also available in VS 2005 and still works the way it always has.

What making a VSIP client will allow us to do is to have much tighter integration between source control and the code. This will be especially nice with Fortress with the task and bug tracking. A big thing many users wanted was the ability to work in CVS mode in Visual Studio and that's not possible with the MCSCCI interface, but is with VSIP. VSIP can also work in the VSS mode as well.

VSIP is new and behaves a bit differently, so if you are a person that doesn't like change, you can feel free to continue forward with MCSCCI.

We are going to continue to add many wonderful features to the VSIP client that will go far beyond what we could have done with MCSCCI.

We'll add more details to this post.

cac123 · Post by **cac123** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:17 pm

I appreciate the response Beth.... I look forward to more details as they become available.

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:58 am

We just posted a new KB article with additional information on these two interfaces: Visual Studio IDE Clients