This particular development environment was a series of very large projects that needed to be maintained and kept in synch with the live stores where the applications were in operation. Maintenance of the source code and databases were crucial and a version control was necessary.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe was the obvious and best choice for dealing with this scenario. Projects were maintained at the top level folder hierarchy and these were broken down into sub elements of those projects - in addition, the different technologies and databases used usually had their own project folders.