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Synchronize Files command includes Refresh Project View. It is more rich command. Making Refresh Project View compares list of files on web server and in local copy on development server and when local copy misses files the command would copy files from web server to a local directory. Synchronize Files command compares additionally content of the files and copy content to file in local directory if content is different.
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Answer on the question depends weather you are working as single developer or in a team of developers. If nobody else can edit files on master web server and local copy of the files, then you don't need Get Latest Version. The files on Master web server are always latest. Now somebody else can access files on master web server and Visual InterDev project files are not under Source Control. If second developer put modifications to master web, then you should copy the changes before you start working. Compare to Master Web command lets you to see if file has differencies. When there are no changes you just getting a local copy of a master file, when file was changed by another developer choose Get Latest Version or Get Working Copy that copy content of master file to a local directory. To do it on whole project you making Synchronize Files. Important that if you are working in a team and not under Source Control, then you must always synchronize project files before making changes. It guarantees that you have latest versions and when you make Release File modifications made by other developers will not be erased. The guarantee works as long as you are not working on file simultaneously with other developers. In the case only Source Control guarantees that changes made by some developer will not be overwritten by another. It is because Source Safe, by default, unlock file for writing only for one developer at a time. When Source Safe is installed Get Latest Version becomes redundant. Making Check Out always gets latest version weather you are working alone or in a team.
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Get Working Copy gets latest version of a file and opens file for editing.
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Your release should not overwrite changes released by other developer while you've worked on your copy of a master file. Visual Source Safe makes it automatic. You check out a file and it guarantees that you and only you can make changes to file. Now your project files are not under Source Control. You finished editing a file in Master mode and want to release it. If somebody else released the same file to master web while you worked on your cope, you overwrite his work by your version. To avoid it, use Compare to Master Web while file is selected ( and opened for editing ) in Project Explorer. You should get a message "Files are identical" if you master and local copy on your machine are identical. Have in mind that you have two versions of local copy on your machine. Compare to Master Web compares master and local copy, not copy that you are editing. One is that you are editing and the basic is latest released. Release working copy when files are identical or make changes to open file before release if they not.
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Get Working Copy gets latest version of a file and opens file for editing.
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This is true that Notepad lets write ASP/HTML/DHTML code, use JavaScript/VBScript for scripting, use COM objects, write pages with the same functionality as with Visual InterDev. ASP code interpreted by ASP.DLL, installed with NT4.0/2K, located on web server
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