How to share one project with two machines ??

I finished the setup of my new rig at office, including a new PC with Vista and two screens. I also have Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 installed.

I want to use this machine every day I am at office. However I also use a lot a laptop (Windows XP and Visual Studio 2005).

One thing I really like with VS 2008 is the Javascript debugging and Intellisense which is really a productive thing. Now I can't figure out how I can share one project between my desktop PC and my laptop. I was hoping that offline files could be the solution, but it doen't works very well.

The only thing I know is that I want to avoid to copy every time I move the project I need. Does anyone get this scenario working? and how?

 

7 Comments

  • SVN? (with Visual SVN maybe)

  • Tim your suggestion is interesting, but I am looking for a local and offline solution. I looked at FolderShare, but it's working with an online application.
    Something like offline files seems to be an idea, but every time I debug I got permissions errors.

  • Tim sorry I give another try at FolderShare and yes it's a cool solution, it works fine. Just misunderstood the setup process!
    Thanks for that.

  • You could try a distributed source control like Mercurial or Monotone (both your laptop and desktop would be hosts). It wouldn't require either machine to be online, but would sync revisions whenever you update (which would require both machines to be connected).

  • I'm with Grewal. I used to develop directly off my usb drive, but it would run too slow. I now use SyncToy to go to and from the harddrive before I start developing. It only takes a few seconds to sync before I start for the day.

  • Like Tim said...FolderShare is the way to go.
    www.foldershare.com

  • You can install the TortoiseSVN and use Subversion server as a file storage. If you don't want install Subversion - check out the google project hosting or service similar to it.

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