Archive for Subversion tag
AnkhSVN 2.0 – free Subversion integration with Visual Studio
The guys over on the AnkhSVN team have acquired new members and burnt the midnight oil to deliver a great 2.0 release with:
- Subversion 1.5 merge & tracking support
- Wizards to help step through tasks like merging
- Now a source code control package (SCC) for smoother, faster integration
- Pending changes window providing change summary
- Easier to get up and running with the source
- Property editor
- Automatic update check
Despite all these great features it’s absolutely free and still works with older versions of Subversion and both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
What are you waiting for, go download AnkhSVN 2.0 already!
[)amien
Future of AnkhSVN (Subversion for Visual Studio)
AnkhSVN 2.0 is now out with the majority of these features making the cut!
Now that AnkhSVN 1.0.3 is out with support for Visual Studio 2008 we can discuss our future plans for AnkhSVN.
We have moved over to openCollabNet and welcomed Jeremy Whitlock and Bert Huijben to the team!
Our preliminary roadmap for AnkhSVN 2.0 is:
- Improve user experience
- Refine windows, options and icons
- Localise dialogs and messages
- Support customisation of icons & menus
- Develop interactive log window
- Add keyboard support (short cuts & tab order)
- Extend integration
- Subversion 1.5 branch & merge tracking
- Subversion property editing
- Visual Studio 2005/2008 source provider model for better integration
- Foster developer participation
- Simplify build environment with MSBuild
- Reduce code-base with SharpSvn
- Switch Visual Studio API from automation to source control
- Provide source-on-demand using Sourceserver
Switching the provider model means we have to drop Visual Studio 2003 support for 2.0 but means we get to use .NET 2.0+ features as well as a much faster and more robust mechanism for extending Visual Studio.
The timetable is quite aggressive and I’m hoping we can get quick regular builds out for people to try.
[)amien
AnkhSVN (Visual Studio Subversion integration) on Vista
Try the new AnkhSVN 1.0.3 preview release
As a number of people have found our popular free Subversion plug-in for Visual Studio, AnkhSVN, has an issue with Vista but a fix is at hand!
Until we can get another build of AnkhSVN out simply:
- Uninstall AnkhSVN
- Run one of the following registry files on your machine
- Reinstall AnkhSVN choosing the Install for all users option
Download AnkhSVN fix 32-bit (Windows Registry REG) (2 KB)
Download AnkhSVN fix 64-bit (Windows Registry REG) (2 KB)
These keys also contain the Visual Studio 2008 fix and should work fine on Window XP too.
Thanks to Jon Skeet, Arild Fines and Jesse Johnston who helped find the solution.
[)amien
Recent activities and inactivities
It has been a crazy couple of months between moving home, spending a week in Seattle and a couple of days in Holland for my real day job (the source of income!)
It was a little too close to my USA trip which has meant I’ve missed my niece trick-or-treating for the first time since I returned to Guernsey 3 years ago which leaves me a little sad. I guess I should be grateful for not being hit with jet-lag and the fact I’m surviving just fine on 5.5 hours of sleep a day which tonight is in a cubicle hotel…
As you can imagine the fun projects I get involved with in my own time have suffered somewhat although I’ve really tried to at least keep the blog posts flowing. Here’s a quick update on things:
SubSonic
I’ve committed the final piece of my refactoring to make the coding languages abstracted. To add additional programming language support you can now just implement the ICodeLanguage interface and add knowledge of it to the CodeLanguageFactory class. The command line and web interface tools will all just magically work with a recompilation.
Rob Conery is now under the employ of Microsoft and will be aligning SubSonic with their MVC efforts. I hope this support of open-source projects is a trend Microsoft are keen to continue.
AnkhSVN
This great add-in for Visual Studio provides Subversion integration continues to face competition from the commercial VisualSVN front and I had an interesting discussion with Aaron Jensen about performance with large projects and some relating to moving.
I have some UI work checked-in to trunk and we are likely to move to a better model for integrating with the Solution Explorer to address these issues that would require we drop Visual Studio 2003 support which is looking quite likely. Various things are moving forward on this project so keep an eye on it!
Envy Code R
I’ve not touched Envy Code R since the PR6.1 release but to be honest this tends to be the way I work with it. Nothing for weeks then 15 hours over a weekend gets it to the next release. Unlike code I find it difficult to jump in and out whilst being productive and consistent. Perhaps when I’ve worked on a bunch I’ll be able to but this is still my first scalable font.
The plan is to add all the essential box-drawing characters for code page 850, extend the # sign (should we slant this in the non-italic version?), increase the curves on { and } and adjust the comma to make it less like a slightly deformed dot. I’m open to suggestions as to whether the .,;: characters should in fact revert back to be square dots rather than round ones… again, leave comments if you have an opinion. I’m not sure whether I would extend this squaring back to the dots on ij! etc.
I’m hoping to get preview 7 out within the next couple of weeks and if that goes well then consider a more liberal licence to allow bundling etc. as I’ve had a couple of enquiries.
Silk Companion icons #1
My pack of addition Silk style icons has suffered as I find it impossible to draw on the move requiring instead a comfortable desk and a proper mouse to draw. As I no longer have a desk at home this means staying late in the office or throwing my lunchtimes at them.
The temptation is to just release the 352 icons as they currently are and produce another set at a later date. The alternative would mean a release some times over the next 1-3 weeks when the number finally reaches the proposed 500 mark.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions, leave a comment!
[)amien
Change Management with Subversion presentation online
The slides from my Change Management with Subversion presentation I gave at the Guernsey Software Developer Forum back in May are now available for download.
[)amien