How to write a SourceControl Add-in for VS Express edition

Question

As you all know Visual Studio Express edition do not support Source Control Integration and Add in

As it is obvious there is a feature which allows VS tointegrate with any kind of source control. So I'm using VS express for myself (in home, and for my presonal Project and want to use a source control for my projects) So what should I Do

Currently I'm using SVN and by Command Prompt using svn, but I want to create an Add-In for VS Express edition which works with VS Express.

Any help will Appriciate.

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Update : An example for doing this is to write an application which run beside of VS and by refactoring find the Items and make them capable to work with a sourcecontrol inside of VS express your solution may be completely different

Answer 1

I don't think you can as the express editions don't support Add-ins. See this question for some more details

Answer 2

As Sam said, you can't write an Add-on. In my opinion, the best add-in for the full Visual Studio is AnkhSVN and they have not been able to create one either.

So I would recommend looking at Tortoise SVN instead. It is a complete, mature and Free GUI SVN client, implemented as a Windows Explorer extension. If you can't integrate into Visual Studio Express, this is the next best thing.

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Microsoft's Dan Fernandez from the Visual Studio team does discuss on his blog how TestDriven.NET managed to work around the restrictions in the Express Editions.

I recommend against trying this for practical and ethical reasons, but the information is out there, so this answer would not be complete without it.