Version Control your VS 2012 Code

Question

How do you manage your version control of your code in Visual Studio 2010 and is it recommended to let Visual Studio handle it automatically? Can it be trusted?

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a&h

Answer 1

Visual Studio doesn't really handle your version control.  Instead it provides an API that Source Control vendors/products write plugins for.  There are two different APIs for this, one is called Microsoft Source Code Control Interface (MSSCCI), and there is a more enhanced API available called Visual Studio Integration Partnership (VSIP)  SourceGear Vault offers BOTH a VSIP and MSSCCI based client for use within Visual Studio.  Microsoft SourceSafe has two different MSSCCI based clients.  Both handle interaction between Visual Studio and the respective version control solutions.

While not flawless as the Visual Studio API does not handle EVERYTHING you can do with version control, it does work pretty well with normal everyday interaction with Visual Studio.

HTH

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Jeff Clausius - SourceGear

Stretching VSS to its limits? Have you looked at SourceGear Vault?

Answer 2

As @Jeff pointed out, Visual Studio does not really handle version control, although Visual Studio 2010 has the ability to connect to TFS built in.

I recommend you read this article about Visual Studio and version control integration as a start.  :)

Answer 3

You may explain more about your using scenario and see if we can help better.

Catherine Sea
Version Control Software | TFS Hosting Service

Answer 4

I am not using this quite yet, but was in fact wondering if this is possible. Thank you

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a&h

Answer 5

I am not using this quite yet, but was in fact wondering if this is possible. Thank you

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a&h

NP.  Once you understand the configuration, the limits of capabilities, I can't imagine you won't find the integrated source control feature very, very handy.

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Jeff Clausius - SourceGear

Stretching VSS to its limits? Have you looked at SourceGear Vault?