Poor Man's Team Foundation Server (TFS)

If you are like me, then the only time you get to use team foundation server (TFS) from Microsoft (if you are lucky enough) is from your employer. Well, what about all those side gigs that you have that you work on at home? Well, this was a concern for me since I had some projects that I was working on that had some additional developers as well. A buddy of mine had recommended Visual SVN.

Visual SVN is the answer to TFS. It may not have the same clout that TFS has, but it comes with a server program and a client program. All you have to do is pay per client seat, which is $49 (July 2008). This does version tracking, check in / check out, etc. It also is fully integrated into Visual Studio 2005, 2008. I installed Visual SVN on my server and I have it linked to my home desktop workstation and my laptop workstation. It makes it easy to keep all the changes on both the laptop and the desktop since I hop between them during the week.

Have fun!