Source control in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

After doing some search on SO, Google and MSDN forums I've become frustrated that there is so little information for what might seem like an obvious question and possibly a dumb question.

I need to use source control in Visual Studio 2010 Professional. I do not have separate Team Foundation Server 2010. Some people have mentioned SourceSafe? I haven't seen any SourceSafe inside of the Visual Studio 2010 to be honest.

What are some alternatives (preferably free) for source control in Visual Studio 2010? Or is it already integrated in Visual Studio 2010 that I am so blind to have missed that?

EDIT: Thank you everyone, I will go with SVN, in particular AnkhSVN for Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 1

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653379

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Visual Studio is just an IDE. You can use any source control solution that you want with it. Any open source source control solution in particular, like git, mercurial (hg) or subversion (svn). And there are commercial products like Perforce or SourceGear Vault. See here for a pretty exhaustive link and google for more information.

You can find Visual Studio plugins that integrate it with any source control. Of open source ones subversion is especially rich in this regard. Commercial ones usually come with this integration.

And if you are not using source control that requires you to explicitly check-out files to edit them (like VSS or TFS do), the IDE integration is not even essential. I personally prefer to use git or subversion from outside the IDE.

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And please, stay as far from Visual SourceSafe as you can.

Answer 2

As @Tomek suggested use Subversion.

Check out this post, which will help you to use subversion and AnkhSVN(VS plugin) with VS2010

Visual Studio 2010, subversion with AnkhSVN

Answer 3

I am using Ankh SVN together with Subversion on the server side and it works fine for me. Mercurial and Git are more popular than SVN lately though and there is also Visual HG, a Mercurial plugin for visual Studio.

Answer 4

Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere integrates with VS 2010 well. SourceAnywhere Standalone is 1 user free and SourceAnywhere Hosted provides a 3-user free plan.

Answer 5

Let me add one more option to the list of SCMs integrated with Visual Studio 2010: Plastic SCM. You can check how it looks like here.

There's a Community Edition available.

Answer 6

it seems that you are not familiar with version control in visual studio 2010. not sure whether this article helps you. http://www.kevingao.net/version-control/version-control-visual-studio-2010.html