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Can anyone recommend a source control solution for Visual Studio? I am going to be the only person using it, I just need something to back up my data every so often or before I undertake a big change in the software. I tried AnkhSVN, but this requires an SVN server. Is there anything that can be used locally that takes the pain out of copying solution folders manually?
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Visual Studio Code has integrated source control management (SCM) and includes Git support out-of-the-box. Many other source control providers are available through extensions on the VS Code Marketplace.
From the main menu, Tools -> Options and then navigate to. Under the Plug-in Selection, you will find it is already set to “None. From the plug-in selection drop-down, you can choose either Git or Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Visual Studio will enable the plugin for the specific source control accordingly.
Source control is important for maintaining a single source of truth for development teams. Using it helps facilitate collaboration and accelerates release velocity. Some benefits of source control are: It allows multiple developers to work on the same codebase.
Visual Studio for Mac provides support for both Git and Subversion version control systems.
With Subversion you can create local, file-system-based repositories for single-user access.
Probably the easiest way to use subversion (on windows) is to install TortoiseSVN. To create a repository, you simply create an empty folder in the location where you want the repository to be, right click that folder and select "TortoiseSVN -> Create repository here".
It is even possible (but not recommended) to create such a repository on a network share.
You can then access local repositories using a file-URL e.g: file:///D:/Projects/MyRepository
If you later find out that you need a server (e.g. to give other users access to the repository), you can easily install svnserve on a server and move the local repository to that server.
Just for completeness: as others have noted, there are several good clients for subversion (personally I'm using mainly TortoiseSVN and AnkhSVN):
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Funny nobody mentioned Git just yet. Granted, it does have a learning curve, but I've been using it successfully within Visual Studio for the past year. Both commandline and with a GUI (GitExtensions).
Download Git for Windows from here.
Since it is a DVCS, it doesn't need a server. You can work against your local repositories publishing them to the world when needed (check out Github).
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