Visual Studio 2008 source control for small teams

Question

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 st

Answer 1

Visual SVN might work for you, it is supposed to integrate well and is relatively cheap at ~$50 per license. I've been considering buying it myself, so far I just use Tortoise SVN as I do relatively little non-Eclipse work right now.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Microsoft's Team Foundation Server integrates fully into VS2008 and uses SQL Server for its back end. The downside is that it's a very expensive solution.

Answer 4

Has any body given Git any thought? There is a very usable solution for windows called GitExtensions here. It integrates with Visual Studio Professional trough an extra menu and optional toolbar. Unlike Subversion, Git is distributed, which means you can commit locally to your copy of the repository, and afterwards push the changes to the server. The bottom line? Git is FAST! It's storage is also more efficient than subversion, which means your repository takes up less space.

Answer 5

I recommend subversion, coupled with AnkhSVN, a plugin (Free!) that integrates Subversion with the Visual Studio IDE.

If you use the svnserve distribution that's free from CollabNet (Windows binaries: here), setup is very simple. Administration is very easy. And the product works very well.

It is still file-system based, but that isn't really a problem. Make sure that you back-up regularly, both full dumps and hot-copies (both of which are explained in detail in the documentation).

Answer 6

Why not use a SVN server? That way, all your developers can use it, and there is a very good free Windows Client for it (TortoiseSVN). You can integrate SVN support with TortoiseSVN into Visual Studio with VisualSVN, which is commercial, but not actually expensive.