Windows Developer Power Tools

11.3 Using Subversion Inside Visual Studio with AnkhSVN

Sure, TortoiseSVN is a great application with lots of power, but wouldn’t it be nice to have your Subversion support integrated right into Visual Studio? AnkhSVN, an add-in for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, makes that possible.

AnkhSVN at a Glance
Tool	AnkhSVN
Version covered	0.6.0.2423 (latest 0.6 snapshot)
Home page	http://ankhsvn.tigris.org
Power Tools page	http://www.windevpowertools.com/tools/15
Summary	Get access to all the power of Subversion while working inside Visual Studio
License type	Apache
Online resources	Mailing list, FAQ, Wiki, IRC channel, author’s blog
Supported Frameworks	Visual Studio 2003, 2005
Related tools in this book	TortoiseSVN, SVN 1-Click Setup

Getting Started

You can download AnkhSVN from the Downloads link on its home page. You’ll also need the Subversion client software installed if you want to use AnkhSVN for repository-management tasks such as copying, merging, or creating. You can find Subversion at its home page, http://subversion.tigris.org. Follow the Downloads link to grab the binary installation packages.

AnkhSVN’s current stable release is the 0.5.x series; however, you’ll need to get the snapshots from the 0.6.x series in order to use AnkhSVN in Visual Studio 2005. The 0.5.x series works fine in Visual Studio 2003. Download the MSI file for the series you’re interested in and install the file, and you’re off ...