Well I intend to host the group projects assigned by my Professor to a service like GitHub or CodePlex. I even have made an account on CodePlex to get started. What I am confused about is which is the most easiest to use for beginners like me or my Team members. Moreover which source control system to use with Visual Studio 2010 Professional? Any links or tutorials will be helpful for me.
Plus: Which license to use for Personal Projects?
If you're using VS Professional and working in a team, then I suggest trying Team Foundation Server with CodePlex.
TortoiseGit is very easy to use to manage GitHub repositories.
To integrate Git with visual studio, you can try Git Source Control Provider.
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I created a ASP.net MVC 5 project in Visual Studio 2013, running in a Windows 8.1 Pro.
I've been ask to put my project on a SharePoint, but I don't quite know how it's done.
i tried creating a SharePoint project on my Visual Studio but it won't let me since I don't have SharePoint installed, and when I try to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 or 2013 it complains I don't have Windows Server.
How do I make my project work on a SharePoint?
So you want to put your project on sharepoint? Cool!
In your case you definetly want to get your own SharePoint environment. To develop Apps (or Add-ins as they are called today) you mainly use Client-side code and techniques. This also means that you need to handle the SharePoint resources with asyncronous programming. Its very powerful, But that is not what you are asking for.
I would set up an SharePoint 2013 Foundation environment since its free and will very much deliver the capabilities you are after. Keep in mind though that SharePoint is a HUGE system that requires some understanding to be utilized.
I made a blogpost a while back where i Installed Win Server 2012 R2 on a external disk, this example works with SharePoint if you just want to debug your project on a SharePoint server. Check it out here: http://bayerlein.se/install-windows-server-on-external-hdd-with-the-help-of-virtual-box/
This solution will of course also require that you install your development program in the same environment.
Good luck//Kodz
It really depends upon what you want to do. Do you need to create a provider hosted app with MVC for SharePoint 2013? In that case, you might succeed with including the necessary references and tooling code (but you still might lack the app manifest project). Technically your project won't run on SharePoint but uses the SharePoint API.
If you need to create an SharePoint solution package, you need a SharePoint development install (and as SharePoint doesn't install on all client OS, your best way is going virtual with a SharePoint development VM). Keep in mind that developing solution packages is a different kind of trade than developing for MVC, so start with a Pluralsite course or some other kind of training.
I think you can create a SharePoint app. You can use VS2015 with SP online so that you don't need to install SP locally. Create a trial o365 account and enable developer site on it. You can deploy your app on the developer site then. If you have developer site from you client instead of using sp online you can use that too.
Once your app works you can create package to deploy on the SharePoint environment.
I think right now, the best way for you would be signing up as Microsoft Office 365 Developer and having a trial of the 365 cloud where you can setup sharepoint 2013 site collection and also develop apps using their tool NAPA.
These days they are calling apps "SharePoint Add-ins"
NAPA and SharePoint Add-ins
I would also suggest you take a look at this article:
SharePoint 2013 Developing Apps vs. Solutions
I've made ASP.NET MVC projects on my work PC, and I have a Mac at home and want to be able to dink around in my free time. I downloaded Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/ASPnet5#VSCode) to try and do this, but I got stuck at part of the instructions and I'm not sure it's even possible to deploy it from there to Microsoft Azure. I also don't want to have to download Boot Camp and Windows, if possible. Are there any options?
I have been in the exact same position as you, unfortunately there is little that we Mac users can do. As ASP.NET was developed by Microsoft they left little room for compatibility with other platforms
Installing Visual Studio Code is the only option for Mac however, all is not lost for we have Git! If your not sure what that is; Git is an open source distribution system which is freely available for anyone to use, allowing others to access and even edit your code.
To get back onto the topic at hand, VSC uses Git repositories to push your source into the Azure platform. Take a look at this site:
http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/your-first-mac-aspnet.html
This is some instruction for ASP.NET development specifically for Mac mainly, it tells us how to activate the Git functionality and how that incorporates to Azure. Hopefully it helps you figure out your issue!
Found these two interesting articles using a combination of Yeoman and Kestrel:
Develop ASP.NET vNext applications on a Mac
Your First ASP.NET 5 Application on a Mac
Basically, you can use Yeoman to get the project scaffolding, VS Code or Sublime Text to edit source code and Kestrel to run your project.
Visual Studio 2012 Express, SQL Server 2012 Express, MVC 4, Code First
I'm looking for a good single user source control solution.
Vault vs Git(hub) vs SVN
From what I've read deployment should happen FROM the source control server, not separately from VS, right? Can Web Deploy be used FROM a source control server?
What would be the best, most cost effective, simplest, easiest Source Control solution? I used SVN a few years ago and it was pretty clunky.
Visual Studio integration is preferred.
There seem to be mixed opinions on how suitable Github would be (very little integration with VS 2012 Express I think?!).
Cloud option would be good to have. Is there a cloud solution that can automatically deploy direct to production server?
(I guess I'm talking about Constant Integration here - though I have zero experience with it, the principle seems like a good one).
Git can now integrate with Visual Studio:
Download here:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c
Getting Started guide here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/01/30/getting-started-with-git-in-visual-studio-and-team-foundation-service.aspx
GIT is your best option.
Integrates with Visual Studio 2012 using the Visual Studio Tools for Git
There are some great Graphical Clients like Github for Windows and Source Tree
Microsoft Team Foundation Server now integrates with Git for automatic deployments with just a Git Push. Scott Hanselman has some great blog posts on how to achieve this here, here and here
Anyways I would strongly recommend taking the free tutorial on Git by Code School http://try.github.io/ (don't be afraid of the command line :P)
VS Express won't support plug-ins, so integration with VS would not be possible AFAIK. Try Tortoise/SVN which integrates with Windows Explorer instead.
For VS 2012 you could use the express edition of Microsoft TFS, which includes version control and a couple other nice perks, more aimed at team dev though.
So far i've only been using webforms. But me and my friend would like to try out the MVC architecture. Some questions:
Is there any downside with the free version of visual studio VS professional? I can get the professional version from work but is it worth the effort?
I would like to use Entity Framework and the latest version of MVC + the razor view engine. Does this need to be downloaded separatly?
As far as versioning is concerned; is tortoise SVN suitable for a small project on 2 persons?
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
SVN is ok as a repository in my experience. If you are using Visual Studio there is a decent plugin so you can use it from within the IDE, rather than from within Windows. If I am using SVN, it is what I use! More details here.
MVC3 can be downloaded here
Entity Framework can be installed via Nuget (PM> Install-Package EntityFramework ) or a quick google will show the download locations (I think there is version 4.3 and a CTP of version 5)
Free version will work, not sure if there are any differences.
Yes you need to download it seperately
Why wouldn;t it be?
Not that I know of. It's a good way to start. I know earlier versions didn't allow plugins but not sure about the latest versions.
EF will come with the .NET SDK (VS) so no need there. You can get MVC3 from the Web Platform Installer (http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3)
I use Tortoise SVN on a team of 4 people with no issues at all. Just make sure you all know good rules for source control management.
I used asp.net in a project in an old company. The vs was licensed etc. Right now, I am planning to use mono since my new company is using linux based stuff and I heard that mono uses the .net framework etc. I just want to know if I need to purchase anything or is it ok to create a webapp using mono?
You can create a webapp using mono wihtout buying anything, of course. You only buy from Microsoft the license of Visual Studio, not the .Net compiler nor the Framework.
#SoMoS has the right answer. If you want more detail, and a better explanation of the patent situation, check out the Mono Licensing page.