We had used Visual SVN for Eclipse before starting a new project with Visual Studio 2017 and now we are looking a similar one for VS. We have look at several version control plugin and tried some of them i.e. Team Foundation Server, AnkhSVN but we do not think that they fulfilled our requirements. We have many problems while synchronisation and we do not want to use it anymore. So, we are looking a good version control plugin or software similar to Visual SVN in Eclipse as described below:
It uses Windows Server rather than Linux, etc.
It should be free.
It should be as useful as Visual SVN as used for Eclipse.
Could you please suggest us some plugin or tool having the features above for Visual Studio 2017 except from AnkhSVN? Any help would be appreciated.
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I understand I can use 2015 side by side with VS 2010, but we've had problems just polluting our environment. If there is a chance someone has done this, it could save me a lot of time and energy instead of going with an install only to find out it doesn't work. It's also unfortunate this isn't documented anywhere.
So just like the title says.
To give some more background we're hoping to use VS2015 with our testers to kick start using selenium, but our task/bug management is all on TFS2010.
I don't want to distort the testers' environment, neither can I play with any of our dev machines to try this out physically. A VM will just not really run on our, not so fast machines.
My google-fu didn't get me to far. The VS2015 Express features does mention TFS, but I want to know specifically if it supports TFS 2010. Additionally I found a MSDN page. This talks about the various VS and TFS versions but nothing here about VS Express
Related SO posts I found:
Visual Studio 2015 & TFS 2010 Not specific about VS express or not, no definitive answer
Visual Studio 2015 with TFS 2010 More unrelated, this is about builds going wrong
You should be able to run VS2010 and VS2015 side-by-side, but not on the same solution/project files.
Once you open an older project in 2015, a project conversion will happen. If I recall correctly, project compatibiliy started to stabilizer around VS2012, but don't quote me on that, I'd say it is not likely.
You will NOT be able to open the same project in both at the same time afaik, so it's a one-time shift that'd meet your needs.
As far as task tracking systems go, you could also opt in on VSTS and do a one-time export of your existing bugs/tasks. Shouldn't take you more than a day or so to plan and migrate those over.
You can open the project with VS2015 but it will be upgraded to a newer state. We recently done this and could not go back using VS2010. Otherwise you can version control and keep both projects, i.e. the old implementation and the upgraded one. You could try with VS2015 Community Edition.
You sure can run both versions side by side, but not on the same project. Also, the Microsoft Test Manager that comes with Visal Studio 2015 will not connect to TFS 2010. It tells you that it needs an older version of MTM. I am still working out the kinks on our systems.
I already have a project which is ready to build. Currently, I am using visual studio 2013.
But, I don't know how to create an MSI setup in visual studio 2013, but for visual studio 2010 there are plenty of tutorials out there discussing how to create a setup in visual studio 2010.
Does this mean I need to install visual studio 2010 in order to create an application setup for my project?
What is the easiest way to create an application setup in visual studio 2013?
Microsoft has listened to the cry for supporting installers (MSI) in Visual Studio and release the Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. You can now create installers in VS2013, download the extension here from the visualstudiogallery.
visual-studio-installer-projects-extension
As of Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft no longer provides the built-in deployment package. If you wish to use this package, you will need to use VS2010.
In 2013 you have several options:
InstallShield
WiX
Roll your own
In my projects I create my own installers from scratch, which, since I do not use Windows Installer, have the advantage of being super fast, even on old machines.
Visual Studio 2013 now supports setup projects. Microsoft have shipped a Visual Studio extension to produce setup projects.
Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension
Microsoft recommends to use the "InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio" as replacement for the discontinued "Deployment and Setup Project" - but it is not so nice and nobody else recommends to use it. But for simple setups, and if it is not a problem to relay on commercial third party products, you can use it.
The alternative is to use Windows Installer XML (WiX), but you have to do many things manually that did the Setup-Project by itself.
Microsoft also release the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects Extension This is the same extension as the 2013 version but for Visual Studio 2015
Apart from Install Shield and WiX, there is Inno Setup. Although I haven't tried it myself I have heard good things about it.
I will tell , how i solved almost similar problem. I developed a application using VS 2013 and tried to create wizard for it failed to do. Later i installed premium VS and tried and failed.
at last i used "ClickOnce" and it worked fine.
So i believe here also , "CLICKONCE" would help you.
Since a few weeks we have our first TFS (2013) setup. The setup is rather small and there are only a handful (read: 10) developers that will have to work with it for the time being. It was setup as a "test" to see if it fits within our organisation.
Now, we'd also like to test the build server functionality. We've configured the build server and enabled a single agent. The MSDN then states that "You must install on the build agent the version of Visual Studio that your team uses on its dev machines." (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399135.aspx).
This sounds pretty straight forward, just install the Visual Studio version we use to dev with (VS Premium 2013). We are however pretty tight on the amount of licenses we can give out. So would VS Express suffice? Or is VS Premium really needed for automated unit testing (MS Test, not NUnit)?
And if VS Premium is needed, which license should be used to activate it? By "which license" I mean, would a developer MSDN license work?
We have a silver MS partnership and every developer has their own MSDN subscriber account.
Disclaimer: This is my very first question, so please excuse me if I've broken any of the rules.
You are allowed to install Visual Studio on the build server without an additional license.
Using Visual Studio on the Build Server
If you have one or more licensed users of Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, Visual Studio Premium with MSDN, or Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, then you may also install the Visual Studio software as part of Team Foundation Server 2013 Build Services. This way, you do not need to purchase a Visual Studio license to cover the running of Visual Studio on the build server for each person whose actions initiate a build.
Visual Studio and MSDN Licensing White Paper
On our team, we don't actually have VS installed on our build server and are able to compile code and run unit tests, but you'll probably find it pretty straightforward to just install the 'highest' version of VS that your team has a license to just to keep it simple and not waste any time tracking down any issues.
For some more details, a similar question was asked recently
Consider to Visual Studio Compare I would recommend you Premium or Test Professional (or Ultimate). If you want the use automated GUI-tests like CodedUI you need Premium or higher anyway. Professional will be enough when you need only Unit-Tests.
I've been checking out Unity and it looks quite interesting.
In particular after reading you can use C# as the scripting language, I am left wondering if there is some sort of Visual Studio integration to leverage IntelliSense and all that jazz built into VS.
Unity has a wiki page explaining how to do this. It seems that the latest version of Unity should already allow you to create a Visual Studio project (if you're running Windows). However, it seems only VS 2008 is supported natively. You can follow this workaround to get it to work with VS2010 (except VS2010 Express Edition) to some degree.
Unity exports a VS 2008 project. I built a VS 2010 exporter so you can avoid fighting with the upgrade wizard. http://u3d.as/2gR
You can check UnityVS from SyntaxTree. With this extension you can code & debug Unity 3D games using VisualStudio
http://unityvs.com/
Disclaimer: both Sébastien and I are working on UnityVS
Microsoft have now acquired UnityVS company SyntaxTree, and are offering UnityVS for free for Visual Studio 2010-2013 Professional or higher.
You can download it here, or get it from the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery.
As of Unity 5.2, Visual Studio Tools are supported by Microsoft for Unity on Windows. Source
For OS X, Visual Studio Code can be used directly with Unity. Source
I need to setup a c# ide (free) on his laptop, do I need to download the sdk or does windows 7 come with a c# compiler? (it's been a while setting something up from scratch)
You can try Visual C# 2010 Express, it's a free version of Visual Studio for C# development, and IMHO more than enough for someone learning that you don't really need the full VS2010 package.
Download Visual C# 2010 Express edition. It's free, you can find further information here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/
Just use Microsoft Visual Studio Express.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer can be used to install Visual Studio Express, and also easily install many of the other MS tools like WebMatrix.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer
3.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the
Microsoft Web Platform, including
Internet Information Services (IIS),
SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and
Visual Web Developer easy.
Similarly Linqpad is a great tool for playing around and dynamic prototyping. I can't advocate it enough.
... LINQPad is more than just a LINQ
tool: it's an ergonomic C#/VB
scratchpad that instantly executes any
C#/VB expression, statement block or
program with rich output formatting –
the ultimate in dynamic development.
Put an end to those hundreds of Visual
Studio Console projects cluttering
your source folder!
Look for the free version of Visual Studio 2008. Not sure if there is one for 2010. It's at the Microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2008-Visual-CS
Framework is sufficient, IIRC.