Plastic SCM integration with Visual Studio allows developers to perform common version control operations from their development environment, making SCM transparent to the developer. This would bring an increase on their productivity as every task would be done within the same tool.

From Visual Studio developers can keep under control the whole project working transparently on their source code. Operations such as check out and check in, adding new elements, the ability to see the differences with previous versions, checking the history of the project, obtaining different versions…they are all easily available.

Furthermore, from Visual Studio 2005 developers are able to manage the projects´ structure from their development environment due to the ability of renaming and moving both files and folders. Traditional SCM products do not support this kind of operations or are very slow and difficult to manage. Plastic SCM, by its full project’s structure versioning and its fully integration with Visual Studio, allows moving files or folders and always keeps the elements history.

Starting to work with Visual Studio and Plastic SCM is very easy. You would only have to create a new project and add it to the source control so it will be ready to start working. Plastic SCM is meant to allow the developer to spend his time only doing his job and not having to learn how to use new tools. It also provides useful functionalities in order to increase the development productivity.

Isolated development on branches allows each developer to make changes on his code without interfering with the rest of the team and they do not interfere with his work, so it provides parallel development, the possibility of always returning to a previously modified version and it increases both stability and productivity.

Plastic SCM integration with Visual Studio is available for the following versions:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 +
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Microsoft Access

Note: In order to use Microsoft Access integration it is necessary to install the following  Add-In, provided by Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2ea45ff4-a916-48c5-8f84-44b91fa774bc&displaylang=en