Unidev .NET Technology Blog

Recently our organization (The Net Impact) made the decision to rebuild our entire development environment. As most know this can be both a daunting and yet exciting venture. During the planning phase we had numerous discussions concerning which source control utility to implement and we finally decided to test Subversion versus Microsoft Team Server.

One of the complaints I have had in the past with Subversion is how clunky interfacing with it has been. I feel that in this day and age any command line interface is past its prime, and having to run external third party interfaces is simply annoying. I wanted something fully integrated into our development tools mimicking the functionality of eclipse and PVCS I had used years back.

Well, I am happy to announce we found it, the perfect tool (in my opinion) that ties Visual Studio seamlessly into Subversion. It’s called VisualSVN, and it makes me smile every time I have to interact with our source control. True, it leverages the TortoiseCVS client, but unlike before where you would have to interact with TortoiseCVS external of your project, VisualSVN allows you direct control over your repository from where you expect it. If you are looking for a highly reliable and hugely satisfying source control solution your search is over.