Dot Net Tips and Tricks

We have been looking at alternatives to Visual SourceSafe over the last few weeks and we’ve settled on the open source solution called Subversion. This product is the successor to CVS and adds a good set of features. We’ve documented a 8x improvement in remote performance when doing full gets of the entire project structure. There are many good open source clients: TortoiseSVN, SmartSVN, VisualSVN etc. Several have good IDE plugins providing the same or close to the feature set of the SourceSafe plugin. Also the VSSMigrate script , here was very easy to move all of the files and history from VSS to the new SVN repository.

For those looking for an alternative to VSS, due yourself a favor and look at Subversion. Best of all the price is just right, FREE!