Antix Software

I've used Visual Source Safe for around two hundred years, both on solo projects and as part of the corporate scene. But now its time to say goodbye.

There hasn't been any significant improvement in VSS for a long while and to get the latest source control offering from MS you have to shell out a cool million for VS Team Suite . Its a shame that MS don't consider source control as professional. Anyhoo, a much cheaper option and one widely used and highly regarded is Subversion or SVN.

I have been toying with getting this sorted for a while and finally took the plunge last week. Here's what I have installed;

• VisualSVN Server, this includes Subversion and Apache in an MSI set-up - free
• TortoiseSVN, a windows interface for Subversion - free
• VisualSVN, an add-in for Visual Studio - $49 ~£22

So for a total of 22 quid I'm set, considerably cheaper than one million dollars I think you'll agree.