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I work on a small web team where I am the only .NET developer currently using Visual Studio 2008 Professional to build and maintain a few web applications. I am about to start training another member of our team so we purchased him a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional. I've looked into Visual Source Safe, but I'm dubious. I don't like that is file system based. Ideally, the system would work with SQL Server 2005 and plug into Visual Studio. Windows based solutions are the best because of the IT environment of the organization I work for.
What are my options for a source control system?
(Forgive me if the answer exists in another thread.)
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Source Control Explorer is available in Visual Studio, but isn't opened by default when working with a project managed in TFVC. You can open the Source Control Explorer window: From the Team Explorer home page (Keyboard: Ctrl + 0, H), choose Source Control Explorer.
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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.
The Source Control Explorer is used to view and manage source control-related files and settings for your project. This window pane collects all source control information in one place so you do not need to open multiple windows or tabs when working with projects that are bound to source control.
Subversion has good integration with Visual Studio 2008 through VisualSVN and Ankh.
SourceSafe is dangerous. You're right that a filesharing-based SCM is a bad idea, and Microsoft themselves have downplayed it and replaced it with a new SCM that comes with the Team edition of Visual Studio.
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned SourceGear Vault. It stores your code in SQL Server, integrates extremely well into VS, and is an excellent replacement/alternative to Source Safe. Since their single-user license is free, I even use it when coding at home. Plus, it's the company founded/run by Eric Sink.
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