Source control in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

After doing some search on SO, Google and MSDN forums I\'ve become frustrated that there is so little information for what might seem like an obvious question and possibly a dum

Answer 1

See: List of Source Control Systems with Visual Studio Plugins

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Visual Studio is just an IDE. You can use any source control solution that you want with it. Any open source source control solution in particular, like git, mercurial (hg) or subversion (svn). And there are commercial products like Perforce or SourceGear Vault. See here for a pretty exhaustive list and google for more information.

You can find Visual Studio plugins that integrate it with any source control. Of open source ones subversion is especially rich in this regard. Commercial ones usually come with this integration.

And if you are not using source control that requires you to explicitly check-out files to edit them (like VSS or TFS do), the IDE integration is not even essential. I personally prefer to use git or subversion from outside the IDE.

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And please, stay as far from Visual SourceSafe as you can.