I'm a developer who works on both individual and group projects using Microsoft Visual Studio. I could setup one of several different source control packages, such as VSS, SourceGear Vault or SVN on a server of my own and access them remotely; however, I don't want to deal with the hassle of setting it up, configuring it, etc.
Does anyone offer a hosted source control service?
For Git, check out GitHub. Good packages, used by an awful lot of opensource projects. Considered to be one of the best hosting experiences for git.
I use Assembla to host all my personal projects. It has 500mb of storage and you can host your code and do bug tracking and issue tracking.
It also has a good set of tools and you can use SVN, Trac/SVN, Trac/git, Mercurial or even an external SVN server for source control.
http://unfuddle.com/ offers a wide variety of SCM offerings (Subversion/Git/Maybe CVS?) as well as issue tracking. And they do it very well.
We use Dreamhost for our subversion repositories and are very happy so far, plus you can't beat the price:
http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-features.html#svn
Google Code, SourceForge all have code hosting solutions. How private do you want to be ?
A basic hosting plan at dreamhost gets you tons of web hosting space, bandwidth, database, jabber chat server, CVS, subversion repository and more for a little more than 5 bucks a month.
Beanstalk seems nice (SVN only), but i don't have any experience with it. Free plan has 20mb space for 3 users and 1 repository.
Project Locker hosts both subversion repositories and an issue tracking software, trac, for you. Trac is real nice when coupled with version control.
I used CVSDude a long time ago. They were free up to 10 MBs at that time.
I'm using webfaction (webfaction.com) as my main web-host at the moment. They offer subversion as a 'one-click-installer' - in reality it takes a few more clicks than the name suggests, but it's really a straightforward process.
Their technical support is absolutely brilliant, and you're provided with the same features across each of their levels of shared hosting. I'd recommend them, most hosts I've used have been pretty awful in comparison.
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We are looking at using Visual Studio online in an environment with multiple development partners that support a myriad number of systems. Across these partners, each one of them uses their own source control however we are looking at a model that commits code into a repository managed by us.
As part of this, we are looking to support partners that use toolsets such as Github, Jira, Bamboo, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, etc
Does Visual Studio Online natively integrate with all of these?
When using Visual Studio Online, do accounts need to be setup with each of these services e.g Github?
Will Visual Studio Online support all IDEs e.g. Eclipse, Xcode, etc?
What other considerations do we need to consider e.g. latency, local copies (should connectivity be lost), etc?
If upgrading from Team Foundation Server 2010 to Visual Studio Online, what other considerations do we have to take onboard?
For the purposes of continuous integration & deployment, does Visual Studio Online support this natively?
If there is no native support for Jira for example, are there similar native features available with Visual Studio Online?
If you want integration with GitHub, then the first requirement would be to use Git as your VCS. This also requires you to use Team Foundation Server 2013 (or later) if you want to host it yourself, as earlier versions don’t support Git.
Once you use Git, you can indeed access the repository from VSO with other clients, as it provides a normal Git interface which all Git tooling options can talk to. And you also get the benefits of Git as a DVCS, so you can use it completely offline.
If you want to user other online services (e.g. GitHub), then of course you do need accounts for those services. VSO is something separate on its own.
As for features of VSO, you need to know that it’s technically a Team Foundation Server, so it comes with a range of included tools. For example an issue management, a build server with continuous integration, a team chat room, etc. So you may not need other services.
Visual Studio Online (now Visual Studio Team Services) supports Eclipse, IntelliJ, your favorite Java IDE, Xcode, Visual Studio, or any editor/IDE you like.
We work for a small firm and we just started getting few SharePoint Projects.
Setup what we have done:
Purchased a new server and installed SharePoint 2010, SQL 2008R2, Visual Studio 2010 in the same server.
Created the application in the SharePoint Central Administration.
Developers directly login to server built the project using Visual Studio. (In server, only 2 ppl can login and work)
Issue:
1. We started getting 2 more projects, and the count of developers became more.
We need to know how to set up an environment where all the developers can work.
Also need to know if there is any way that they can work from local and then we can push the application to the server.
We do not have budget to get one more server and install TFS, so need to know if there is any other repository where we can make the above task possible.
Any help from all you people will me greatful.
Expecting a reply at the earliest.
Regards,
Alex
Depending on what specification laptops/PC's you have you may be able to create a virtual machine to do the development within. All the licenses here would be covered by MSDN subscription(if your devs have this) I think. VM's can get very big so what all the developers did in my last company was to have an external HD with our VM's on there, i think we were using e-sata connected external hd's
If you have TFS you should be able to connect the VM's up to this which essentially would allow you to use the build functionality to create your WSP packages ready for production(once testing has passed on your VM obviously), this package can then be dropped by TFS automatically to your production server ready for installation.
The great thing about this model is that you can have multiple VM's so if you break one you can just use a fresh one! All developers will be on a different VM but with some configuration would be working from the same source code.
Essentially this method has it's drawbacks and it's positives but i found this way was really benificial to me as i was learning how to do things and regularly needed a new VM :P
Something to note about what you have said, It is not recommended that you have VS on your production server.
Hope this helps
Truez
I'm going to be building some ASP.Net MVC 2 software using Visual Studio 2010 and, as the only developer, I'd like to have some basic SCM in place to I can manage changes locally. I know most SCM solutions are designed to run on servers and accessed by multiple developers. What's an easy, simple SCM solution for a solo developer that wants to manage everything on a single Windows 7 machine?
Thanks so much in advance for your help!
A distributed VCS like git or mercurial would work just fine for a local repository, and you could always use your local repo as a master for future shared access.
File based SVN
git
I see three possibilities:
use a VCS that allows file-based access (SVN does)
install a server (e.g. for SVN)
use a distributed VCS (like Hq, git etc.)
They are listed with increasing recommendation level, so I recommend last one most. (Although I should warn against using git, which isn't really considered the easiest to use of the family.)
In my experience, TFS, hands down, has the best integration with Visual Studio. All other source control providers offer lackluster support for .NET projects at best (this specifically comes into play with renaming, moving, and deleting files under source control).
That said, for a single developer, my recommendation would be to use AnkhSVN with free SVN hosting on projectlocker.
On the other hand, if you have a BizSpark or MSDN account, and have some time, you may want to set up TFS 2010, perhaps on a VM.
Perforce provide a 2-user non-expiring "evaluation" license. I believe this can be installed and used on a single PC.
If you already have the .NET stack installed on your machine and SQL Server (including Express Edition), you can have a single user version of SourceGear Vault for free. Works well on my fairly old XP Pro machine.
I'm working as part of a volunatry team creating an open source product with a permissive license. We are currently using Visual SVN Server/TortoiseSVN for source control and TeamCity for our continuous integration builds.
I would like to add a bug tracking component into the mix that will integrate into SVN. Ideally, I'd like to use FogBugz but we have no budget. So, I need an alternative. The requirements are:
Must be free or have a free version supporting at least 20 developers (we're volunteers!)
Must integrate with VisualSVN Server
Must run on Windows
I prefer Microsoft technology (ASP.Net over PHP; SQL Server over MySQL, etc) because we are a Microsoft shop, we have experience with those tools and already have them installed.
Must be able to work with a geographically distributed team
Must work with Express editions of Visual Studio (the developers don't all have the Pro version so we can't rely on Visual Studio add-ins).
I'd like The Community's recommendations, please, for products that meet all of the above requirements.
[Clarification: our license is very close (though not word-for-word) to the MIT license.]
Trac: It is not a Microsoft technology but will integrate well into SVN. There are not many free bug tracking software's that are free on Microsoft technology.
JIRA is free for open source projects and will run on Windows. Subversion integration is available and provided through a plugin.
Trac
Redmine
Try Bugzilla.
Is free
I do not know if integrates with SVN... but I suppose the answer is YES.
Runs on Windows - you must set up few
components, but it actually runs
prety well on IIS, however
installation is a bit tricky.
Bugzilla is Perl and MySQL. However,
as I said I had installed succesfully
Bugzilla on Windows 2003.
Installation of MySql and Perl does
not take a lot of server resources -
we had those two on our ASP.NET +
MSSQL test server, and no performacne
drop had been observed.
Works with distributed team.
Try InDefero, you can even get the hosted way for free if your project is not that big in size.
We are planning on moving for MS Source Safe (ouch) to SVN. We are working mostly in a Microsoft environment (windows, Visual Studio, .NET) and we have developers in multiple sites. I heard about VisualSVN and integration with visual studio. On the other hand I can get someone to host SVN for me and use TortoiseSVN. Any recommendations? Any pitfalls I should avoid?
I heard about VisualSVN and
integration with visual studio
Point to note, VisualSVN (the one that integrates with VStudio) is not a server technology at all, it is simply a integrated GUI front end to SVN, and in fact works through TortoiseSVN (which is required to be installed). However, VisualSVN is GREAT and defnitely worth the $50 per developer to use it. I used it daily and it saves me SO much time.
There is also VisualSVN Server, which will take care of the server side of things and the setup is absolutely dead simple. As long as you have an internet facing server and copious amounts of bandwidth (though SVN is not much of a bandwidth hog) you should be fine to host it yourself. Oh yeah, and VisualSVN Server is completely FREE!
However, having your repository hosted off-site is definitely always an option.
I use dreamhost for this now and couldn't be happier.
Hosting subversion is fantastically simple. At the risk of being labeled a brown nose (is there a badge for that?) Jeff Atwood did put up an article on installing subersion
http://blog.codinghorror.com/setting-up-subversion-on-windows/
So really you could save yourself some money by running your own subversion server and you'll never have to worry about what happens to your code if your hosting company goes belly up.
I would start with tortoise because it is free and is really easy to use. If you find you really need integration with VS then by all means try out visual svn. In my experience source control <-> editor integration is most useful for automatically opening files when you edit them. Subversion doesn't require you to open files so that big advantage is gone.
Another SVN integration with Visual studio is AnkhSVN http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/ It is free, and has a few quirks. Personally, I use it for basic diffing and the visual indicators for file status (changed, conflict, etc.) while I use Tortoise for the heavy lifting.
You can get hosting of secure svn repositories from a variety of sources: http://beanstalkapp.com/ and many others. Often free if the usage (users, data, etc.) is limited.
VisualSVN does integrate with Visual Studio but not like SourceSafe does (and I mean this in a good way). It requires TortoiseSVN so it's not not an either/or. VisualSVN and Tortoise is a great combination.
Best way to deploy subversion (SVN) in a multisite windows environment
As far as I understand, you have multiple development teams in different locations (even different continents, maybe) who have to access the same codebase. For such a case VisualSVN Server provides Multisite Repository Replication feature.
The feature is based on VDFS (VisualSVN Distributed File System) technology which allows automatic, transparent, bidirectional master/slave replication of your repositories between remote sites. What's more -- it works out-of-the-box with minimal configuration steps done via VisualSVN Server Manager MMC console.
Learn more at http://www.visualsvn.com/support/topic/00068/