Which plugin do you use for SVN in Visual Studio?

Brann picture Brann · Jan 8, 2009 · Viewed 39.6k times · Source

I'm considering using SVN for my .Net projects, and I'd like to know what plugins are available for integrating the source control capabilities directly into the Visual Studio IDE.

I already know about the following Visual Studio extensions:

  1. VisualSVN, which seems great but is not free. It is implemented as a low-level VS package extension. Is anyone using it?

  2. AnkhSVN, which is free but I've heard it's a bit buggy. It is implemented as a VS add-in extension. Is anyone using it? are you experiencing problems? Edit: The 2.0 version is a complete rewrite and seems to solve the problem I've heard about (which were related to the 1.x versions)

  3. Edit : TortoiseSVN + Mindscape's FileExplorer VS Extension, which is not a real IDE integration but somewhat eases the use of TortoiseSVN from Visual Studio.

Edit : I've found a few comparison posts between AnkhSVN and VisualSVN here, here and here.

Answer

thaBadDawg picture thaBadDawg · Jan 8, 2009

I've used AnkhSVN for the past year and I've never had a problem with it. I switch between that and TFS and some of the times I think I prefer AnkhSVN to TFS.