Features
VisualSVN for Visual Studio provides the following main features.
Live Status
VisualSVN instantaneously displays any change made to the working copy, including property changes, folder changes and changes made to files that are not included in the solution.
Traffic light status
An intuitive way to display status: green for unmodified items, yellow for changed items and red for conflicts and errors.
Real-time status
The background process incrementally recomputes status, which updates immediately after any change.
Status for everything
Cumulative traffic light status is displayed for physical folders, C++ project filters and solution folders.
Status is cumulative
Traffic light status is calculated recursively: a parent folder is marked yellow if any of its subitems contain changes.
Status is editor-aware
Even unsaved changes just made in the editor are considered and displayed instantaneously.
Whole working copy tracking
VisualSVN tracks all working copy items, including those outside your current Visual Studio solution.
Entire working copy status
An always-visible indicator in the Visual Studio status bar displays the cumulative status for the entire working copy.
Locked files indicator
A dedicated status bar icon appears if your working copy contains locked files.
Review Changes
VisualSVN lets you review all changes in your Visual Studio projects. You can easily see what has changed, iterate through modified files, and resolve merge conflicts inside Visual Studio.
Pending Changes window
The Pending Changes window displays all current changes made in the working copy. You can open the window using Alt+1 shortcut.
Review modified files
The Pending Changes window allows you to iterate through modified files using the F8 and Shift+F8 keyboard shortcuts.
Built-in Visual Studio Diff tool
Integration with the built-in Visual Studio Diff tool allows you to review file changes with syntax highlighting, IntelliSense and third-party refactoring tools.
Built-in Visual Studio Merge tool
Integration with the built-in Visual Studio Merge tool allows you to resolve merge conflicts directly inside the IDE.
Quick Diff and Commit
The Quick Diff feature allows you to assess, review and quickly navigate between changed blocks of code or selectively revert them. Quick Diff markers are shown directly in the editor and are computed and updated instantaneously. This is a flagship feature that dramatically improves your coding and code review workflow.
'Track changes' replacement
Quick Diff markers are displayed for lines that have changed since the last commit.
Navigation between changes
You can easily cycle through changed blocks of code using the Alt+[ and Alt+] keyboard shortcuts.
Quick Revert
You can easily revert a specific block of changes using the Ctrl+Alt+Z keyboard shortcut.
Overview margin
The Quick Diff Overview margin appears next to the code editor's scroll bar and allows you to quickly see where changes are located in the file.
Quick Commit
Commit selected changes with 'Commit this Block' and 'Commit Selection' context menu commands, while leaving your other changes uncommitted.
File Operations Tracking
VisualSVN tracks all file operations performed in Visual Studio and properly reflects them to Subversion. All refactorings performed by third-party plug-ins are also properly handled and reflected to your working copy.
Automatic add for all items
Automatically adds every newly created file or folder to Subversion.
Transparent file operations
Drag & Drop, Copy & Paste and Save As operations do the right thing in your working copy.
Transparent refactoring
All refactoring performed by built-in or third-party tools is properly reflected to Subversion.
Automatic lock
Automatically prompts you to lock files marked by a svn:needs-lock property.
Easy Start
We strive to make VisualSVN as user-friendly as possible by providing handy wizards that help you start using Subversion in just a few clicks.
Add Solution to Subversion wizard
Helps to properly add projects to Subversion in a couple of clicks.
Get Solution from Subversion wizard
Allows to check-out a project that is already stored in a repository.
TortoiseSVN integration
There is practically no learning curve for users who are already familiar with TortoiseSVN.
Polished usability
Complete and comfortable integration of Subversion into Visual Studio is achieved through carefully designed menus, a dedicated toolbar and other unobtrusive features.
Useful context menu
The VisualSVN context menu is available wherever you need it.
Keyboard friendly
All common Subversion commands can be quickly accessed using keyboard shortcuts.
Toolbar
VisualSVN provides a handy toolbar with common Subversion operations readily available.
Hot Switch
Allows you to switch between branches using a combo box at the VisualSVN toolbar.
Professional-grade product
VisualSVN is a professional-grade Subversion integration plug-in. Designed and built specifically for enterprise customers, VisualSVN provides a high level of stability, usability and robustness.
Genuine Subversion
VisualSVN is built against official Subversion binaries and does not depend on third-party Subversion bindings or libraries.
Out-of-process unmanaged code execution
Out-of-process execution ensures that Visual Studio will never crash or hang because of VisualSVN.