I have a team of 3 developers and I want that we should be able to work on the project from our own homes, at any time (or at the same time) and make changes to the project. Till now, we have to mail each other all the updates versions to keep in sync. We are developing the project in Visual Studio 2010 currently and use SQL Express 2008. I searched internet and got some idea about Team Foundation Server but it requires Windows Server. I don't want to get into this mess and I have a Win7 Pc. Please suggest me some easy solutions.
There are any number of low-cost (often free to open source projects) hosted source control providers out there.
Personally I use Subversion along with the AnkhSVN plugin for Visual Studio.
Mercurial and Git are also quite popular and supported within Visual Studio via plugins.
Any of those options can be setup in a few minutes (if you use a hosted solution) and will all work for a small team.
Version Control is what your looking for,and your right there are some complicated solutions out there. TortoiseSVN isn't too complicated but works well.
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In the process of building an ASP.NET Core MVC rc1 application with SQL databases, c#, bootstrap, angular, css, javascript, javascript dependencies, package managers like bower, or any visual studio project for that matter, I sometimes break the application and would like to roll it back to a previous state when the application was working.
What are some techniques/the best way to create incremental versions, save and flag working versions, and rollback to earlier versions especially when a project has so many moving parts, technologies, and dependencies?
I would prefer a technique that exists inside Visual Studio, or the most standard/popular Microsoft or open source technique or tool that may be free.
I also would like the option to do the backups on my local machine rather than on an external server.
If anyone else has this question: I found Git to be a great way to achieve this purpose. Unlike many version control systems, it keeps the change repository on the local machine and only places it on a server when the project is merged. As of 2015, it integrates well with Visual Studio and TFS. Here is a video from the Build conference explaining its integration with VS2015:
Channel 9 - using git in visual studio
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/3-746
I have a Visual Studio project that I want to work on in two computers.
I'm looking for how to sync the project between the computers.
I have a few options, and I'm open to other suggestions:
Dropbox
OneDrive, which is integrated nicely in Windows 10.
Github, although I'm not sure if it is used for this purpose, and don't want my code to be public.
What has worked for you?
Thanks!
If you use Visual Studio, then Visual Studio Team Services is good for you.
For source control you can use TFVC or Git and it's free (for team up to 5 people) and repositories are private.
GitHub is a nice choice, not only to share between machines, but mainly as version control.
Also, if your version of Visual Studio supports it, you could use TFS - the versioning integrated to it.
OneDrive or Dropbox doesn't have version control - once your project grows, you will notice it is really needed.
For source control I would prefer tortoise svn (over git and bitbucket) - because it's easier to use.
For data replication / sync - google drive. Its similar to microsoft one drive, but bit faster.
Oh common - downvoters ! :-) I know you're absolutely love git, but unfortunately it's too over abstract, lacks of proper error handling, to difficult to use.
We can skype if you think otherwise, and I can prove it to you.
I'm trying to get my head around how to best organize my companies code set in visual studio 2013 TFS-git. We have multiple database projects and multiple web application projects. I like the idea of being able to develop a web app and the db at the same time in a particular solution but its not a one to one scenario. Multiple web apps talk to the same databases.
I know you can break things up into solutions and projects but not seeing too much out there in best practices in this area.
Any guidance? Thanks for your help.
I think this will help you what you are trying to do
Git init VS full Git support into all their ALM products. Here they have published for Visual Studio that adds Git source control integration. Git Extension includes add-ins for Older Visual Studio versions and Windows Explorer integration. It's regularly updated. And alternatively you can look for Git Source Control Provider
And you may also a read about TFS-GIT here
I need to deploy some Crystal Reports XI .dlls (craxdrt.dll, crviewer.dll) to client computers. Craxdrt.dll has many dependencies. I found out that the easiest way to go about this is to use the supplied merge modules. Having always relied on ClikOnce deployment I am at a total loss how to do this.
If it matters: the .exe is written in VB6, but I have visual studio 2010 to make setup projects.
Thanks!
Ideally you'd use the Visual Studio Installer 1.1 that Microsoft supplied as an add-on to VB/VS 6.0 a long time ago. While a bit long in the tooth (and recently removed from Microsoft Downloads) it works fine and was intended for just this purpose. The process is described in the Help that came with the product.
However if you have an edition of VS 2010 that can create real Setup projects (i.e. not Express) it should work in a very similar manner. It should be a standard option to add MSMs to a Setup project.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aw2dz878.aspx
I'm looking to move to distributed source control since I use multiple computers and often work offline. What if any distributed source control systems integrate with visual studio and how good is the integration?
Have you considered using Git? You can host open source projects on github for free.
For integration please refer to Using Git with Visual Studio which indicates it is possible.
I'm not sure about integration with VS but I have used the excellent Tortoise Windows Explorer plugins. We use Tortoise-CVS and SVN all the time and they are fast and reliable.
They do a Tortoise-Hg plugin for Mercurial as well.
It may sound funny, but I rarely use my VS integration even though I have one.
Tortoises and command line work great, and Bzr and Hg have workable tortoises.
AnkhSVN does the job nicely for me and my team.
Jared,
If you need distributed and VStudio integration, then you're talking about Plastic SCM
The whole GUI is integrated with VStudio 2005 and higher, and SCC integration is available starting with VStudio 6.
It directly supports renaming and moving files from VStudio too.
Plastic SCM is free for students, for open source projects and most likely you can get some free licenses for personal projects too.
There is VisualHG too, with TortoiseHG it is a Visual Studio Plaugin.
I use subversion and tortoisesvn. For integration with VS, I use VisualSVN which does cost money but it pretty cheap and works flawlessly. There are free subversion source control provider packages for Visual Studio and I tried a few but VisualSVN worked so much better so I went with it.
I like using KilnHG (which is an online wrapper around Mercurial) - it's free for small numbers of developers from what I can recall.