Getting started with a new project

Greetings. I am a network Admin, not a coder, but I have the task of setting up and using wincvs for our development project. We started this project with a coder in house and CVS was not required, but she is gone and development has gone out-of-house to at least three different locations. The coders are all using Visual Studio as their environment.

I have a dedicated CVS server, with wincvs 2.0.2.4 (build 4)installed. It is running on Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. I have SSL installed and working. The coders to date have been FTPing their code up - but this is not the best way to go. We need to version control and merge code....

I have downloaded and printed the documentation, which is not written for Windows users, but oriented towards Linux users, thus I have a difficult time understanding anything.....

I do have a repository setup - at least I think I do.

What I need help with is the following: (lots unfortunately)
How do users of Visual Studio use CVS?  Is there a client they need to install?
What do I need to do to get wincvs configured for their use? I already have accounts made that they are using for FTP and it works fine.
What else do I need to know?

I would like to be able to check in and out code myself as I will be testing the code. How does this work?

Again, I have tried top read the documentation, I am reviewing sites on-line to try to get up to speed. But if anybody here can help, it would really be appreciated.

Thank you.









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