Whats the easiest way to setup a local subversion server?

Question

I\'m really not well versed in these things, I just want to setup an svn server locally on my computer. Also I\'d like to set it up and integrate it directly into Visual Studio

Answer 1

Rick Strahl, FTW!

Another great walk-through on setting up SVN with Windows comes from Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror:

Setting up Subversion on Windows

In a nutshell:

1. Download/Install SVN, configure as windows service
2. Install TortoiseSVN (or your SVN GUI of choice). I recommend sticking with Tortoise, since there have been anecdotal horror stories of using SVN clients integrated with VS
3. Create a repository (either through CLI or GUI client