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title: "Add Solutions and Projects to Source Control | Microsoft Docs"
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# Add Solutions and Projects to Source Control
  When you add a solution to source control, the solution becomes part of a dynamic versioning archive created and maintained by the source control provider. Each time someone checks in a new version of the solution, that version becomes part of the archive and is available to other source control users.  
  
 Adding a solution to source control also starts a system of centralized file management. Source control providers, such as [!INCLUDE[msCoName](../includes/msconame-md.md)] Visual SourceSafe, control access to source-controlled items; source control clients cannot write to local copies of source-controlled files without checking them out.  
  
 The following table describes the topics in this section.  
  
|Topic|Description|  
|-----------|-----------------|  
|[Add Solutions to Source Control](../../2014/database-engine/add-solutions-to-source-control.md)|Describes the project types you can add, and provides instructions on how to add a solution to source control.|  
|[Add Projects to Source Control](../../2014/database-engine/add-projects-to-source-control.md)|Provides instructions on how to add a project to a solution.|  
  
## See Also  
 [Open Solutions and Projects from Source Control](../../2014/database-engine/open-solutions-and-projects-from-source-control.md)