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Source control with Visual Studio integration for a small project

I'm begining the development of a personal Web Application project. I'd like to have a source control system for that project.

At work, we user Team Foundation Server and I'm quite happy with that, mostly for the Visual Studio integration.

I'd like to know if there was free source control solutions that had the same kind of integration with VS2008.

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Olivier Payen Avatar asked Jan 27 '09 22:01

Olivier Payen


3 Answers

I just started using Subversion actually, all I did was go to their website and download the server (took like 10 mins to install and setup). The installer asks you where you want your code repository to be and then it sets up the server completely. The only thing I had to do was put in a password file. I installed ankhsvn (which is an SVN client that integrates into Visual Studio) and it worked perfectly, without a hitch. Exactly how you'd expect. It's very little work overall.

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Ray Hidayat Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 02:10

Ray Hidayat


subversion, mercurial

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Bartosz Radaczyński Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 03:10

Bartosz Radaczyński


I think you have two options, really:

Subversion. It's easy to setup etc, and free. I like VisualSVN, which is $50, and worth atleast 5x that much, but you can use Ankh (free, OSS) or just use tortose (windows explorer plugin, OSS, free).

Once you have tortoseSVN (VisualSVN needs it too) you can make local repo's, or use a remote one, eg VisualSVNServer (also free), or personally, I have mine hosted with my websites at dreamhost :)

Another option is SourceGear Vault. It's GREAT if you have a windows-based server somewhere (it's SQL 200x + ASP.NET based, including SQL Express Edition I think), and it's free for one user. Very good if you are used to SourceSafe or TFS, and it can work in the SVN/CVS checkout-merge-commit way if you want to (not the default, but easy to change), or just use the check out - lock - check in way like VSS.

You might have heard Eric Sink of SourceGear on the Stack OVerflow podcast the other week - same company.

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Nic Wise Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 03:10

Nic Wise