If you do some personal development, Sourcegear Vault is an excellent alternative to using Team Foundation Server Express/Team Foundation Service.
First of all, it is free (like Team Foundation Server Express/Team Foundation Service). However, it is free only for 1 user, therefore, if you need more than 1 user (and up to 5 users), you are still better off with using Team Foundation Server Express/Team Foundation Service.
Second of all, it is reasonably easy to install and has a few features which Team Foundation Server still does not have (such as detection of renegade files and archiving of old source control folders/branches).
However, if you were previously using Sourcegear Vault v. 6.0 (like me), you will definitely want to upgrade to the latest version--v. 7.0.
While I was using v. 6.0, I noticed that I was having tremendous performance issues running on a Windows Server 2012 Server with IIS 8.0 and SQL Server 2012. An operation such as a simple checkout of a few files would take several minutes and very frequently crash the Vault Client!
Therefore, after reviewing the release notes for v. 7.0, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my existing Vault v. 6.0 installation to v. 7.0.
After making a backup of my databases, I proceeded to upgrade my installation. The upgrade installation went very smoothly and fortunately, after the upgrade was completed, the performance issues that were plaguing my Sourcegear Vault client vanished!
I was back to excellent performance! Therefore, if you haven't already upgraded to v. 7.0, you should do so now!
First of all, it is free (like Team Foundation Server Express/Team Foundation Service). However, it is free only for 1 user, therefore, if you need more than 1 user (and up to 5 users), you are still better off with using Team Foundation Server Express/Team Foundation Service.
Second of all, it is reasonably easy to install and has a few features which Team Foundation Server still does not have (such as detection of renegade files and archiving of old source control folders/branches).
However, if you were previously using Sourcegear Vault v. 6.0 (like me), you will definitely want to upgrade to the latest version--v. 7.0.
While I was using v. 6.0, I noticed that I was having tremendous performance issues running on a Windows Server 2012 Server with IIS 8.0 and SQL Server 2012. An operation such as a simple checkout of a few files would take several minutes and very frequently crash the Vault Client!
Therefore, after reviewing the release notes for v. 7.0, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my existing Vault v. 6.0 installation to v. 7.0.
After making a backup of my databases, I proceeded to upgrade my installation. The upgrade installation went very smoothly and fortunately, after the upgrade was completed, the performance issues that were plaguing my Sourcegear Vault client vanished!
I was back to excellent performance! Therefore, if you haven't already upgraded to v. 7.0, you should do so now!
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