connecting visual studio 2010 to assembla SVN

Question

I'm working now with a friend on creating a project together and a SVN is quite needed.

however, yesterday when I tried to save my Project to Assembla I couldn't manage to commit it correctly. in the beginning, I thought it might be due to me using a live login from google ID. so I created a new user using a normal user name and password. but it just didn't help.

Visual Studio 2010 opens the login dialog for connecting to Assembla and asked for my username and password, I entered them but received an error message saying that the response code from the server was a 400 one...

looking all over the web, I couldn't find an explanation on how to do this.

any thoughts?

Answer 1

I do not have anything against Assembla but I think its a very bad idea to try and integrate mercurial / git to Visual Studio. If you do not have TFS integrated with Visual Studio, you are much better off using a stand alone Mercurial client than trying to integrate one to your Visual Studio.

We have been using bitbucket.org by Atlassian for hosting small projects for collaboration. They have a free plan to collaborate up to five users with private repositories.

Manual steps involved in using Visual Studio with Mercurial

1. Create an account at bitbucket.org
2. Download a mercurial client like TortoiseHg to your machine
3. Create a repository on bitbucket.org
4. Clone the git repo to your machine.
5. Push changes as your code.

Thats it!. Here is a complete tutorial on using Mercurial / Git using bitbucket.org - bitbucket101

P.S: There is no harm in using Assembla if you already have a plan, just make sure you do not install extra scripts into your Visual Studio. TortoiseHg can sure handle any Mercurial.

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Update based on your comment:

Well yes and no. Microsoft always had its own source control system. Earlier it was Source Safe. Now they have upgraded it to another much better option called Team Fundation Server (TFS) which among doing many other things, also controls source