Performing Source Control Tasks

This section describes the general source control tasks that you can perform from Visual Studio for any plug-in. Basic source control operations, such as check in, check out, and viewing history, are largely plug-in-specific, although these operations can make use of some of the standard UI elements supported by the Visual Studio source control wrapper. For plug-in-specific tasks, however, you should consult the documentation for your particular source control plug-in.

Note

Many of these procedures refer to selection of basic source control commands from the Visual Studio File menu. Alternatively, you can access many of the commands by right-clicking a source-controlled item in Solution Explorer.

In This Section

• How to: Add a Project to Source Control
  Provides procedures for adding a project to source control.

• How to: Bind or Unbind a Solution or Project
  Describes how to bind a solution or project to source control, and how to unbind the item.

• How to: Change the Working Folder Location
  Tells how you can change the location of your working folder.

• How to: Connect or Disconnect a Solution or Project
  Describes procedures for connecting a solution or project to source control, and disconnecting the item.

• How to: Copy a Source-controlled Item
  Tells how to copy a file or project from one source-controlled item to another.

• How to: Delete a Source-controlled Item
  Describes ways to delete a source-controlled item.

• How to: Enable Automatic Retrieval
  Describes how to configure Visual Studio so that it will not automatically retrieve the latest version of a source-controlled item every time you open it.

• How to: Disable Creation of the <solutionname>.root Folder
  Describes how you can disable the automatic creation of the .root folder for a solution.

• How to: Enable Automatic Check-ins
  Tells how to configure Visual Studio to automatically check your changes in to source control when you close a solution.

• How to: Disable Automatic Checkouts
  Describes the configuration of Visual Studio to check out a file automatically when you begin editing it.

• How to: Enable or Disable Source Control
  Tells how to enable source control using the source control plug-in of your choice, and how to disable source control completely.

• How to: Exclude a File from Source Control
  Tells how to mark a file to exclude if from source control.

• How to: Move a Project Binding Root
  Describes how to move the binding root for a project if some files you want to add to the project are located outside the project root.

• How to: Move a Source-controlled Item
  Tells how to move a source-controlled file or project from one project or solution to another.

• How to: Open a Project or Solution from Source Control
  Describes the opening of a project or solution from source control.

• How to: Rename a Source-controlled Item
  Describes how you can rename a source-controlled item.

• How to: Set Plug-in Options
  Tells how to set plug-in options for management of your source-controlled items.

• How to: Switch Source Control Plug-ins
  Describes restrictions and instructions for selecting different source control plug-ins for Visual Studio.

• How to: View a List of Checked-out Files
  Describes how to use the Pending Checkins window to display a list of the checked-out files in the current solution.

Related Sections

• Introducing Source Control
  Provides an introduction to source control in Visual Studio.

• Source Control User Interface Reference
  Provides technical information about the dialog boxes supported by source control for Visual Studio.