About projects and version control

Projects in Flash let members on a team work together on a single Flash application or project. A project file remembers each of the files it contains, and lets you incorporate some SourceSafe capabilities into your applications, which helps you keep backups of modified files.

To group multiple files into a single project file, use the Project panel. This helps simplify application building, where managing related files could get complex and confusing. You can define a site for your work, create a Flash project (FLP) file, and then upload everything to the server so that a team can work on the project.

Version control lets you check files in and out of your repository, and check that only one person is working on a file at a certain time. Other benefits include the ability to revert to older versions of the files.

Version control features help you ensure that you use the correct current files when authoring, and that certain files are not overwritten.

You can typically use your current source control software with Flash, but you might not be able to integrate it with the Project panel. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is currently supported. Other software programs can manage and control your Flash documents, but you probably cannot integrate them with the Project panel.