.NET project on online Source control : Useful and interesting web sites

Visual Studio 2013 express have a option to add your project to Source Control. It is easy to add project to local repository location. In this article you will find step by step tutorial how to add your project to free private Source control located on the internet.

Bitbucket supports private or public Git/Mercurial repositories up to 5 users.

Why you need online Source control Repository?

Let's say you developing your project and one day your computer crash down. It is pity to lose all your development effort till this point. So if you have local Source Control repository you will lost everything. But if you have online repository you could continue to work from your last check in on other computer.

Of course, there are other reasons why you should use online Source safe like sharing work and code with other people who are distant from you but in my case online backup is main reason to use online source control.

Step by step guide for online Source Control with Visual Studio 2013 express

To add your project to Source control click FILE --> Add to Source Control

Choose Git radio button and click OK

If you get error like this: "The current solution has projects that are located outside the solution folder. These projects will not be source controlled in the Git repository..." check Add ASP .NET Empty Web Site to Git Source control

Open Team Explorer, VIEW --> Team Explorer

Choose Changes in dropdown of Team Explorer window

Commit to local GIT, enter the comment (eg. "Initial Commit") and choose Commit from dropdown

Click on "Unsynced Commits"

Now you need to enter URL of an empty GIT repo, to get this URL you need to create account on Bitbucket

Creating Bitbucket repository

Go to Bitbucket and Sign up for free

Click on button Create to create new Bitbucket repository

enter Name, Description, Access level (in this sample I checked private repostiroy checkbox), Repository type (Git) and Language (C#)

after Create repository button is clicked you create new repository

next step is to copy URL,
URL is in format :
https://bitbucket.org/[ProfileName]/[RepoName]
So if my profile on bitbucket is Me URL will be:
https://bitbucket.org/Me/newwebsite

let's go back on Visual Studio 2013

In Visaul Studio in Team Explorer paste link of your BitBucket Repository and click Pubish

Enter you BitBucket username and password if you are asked. If everything is ok you will see meassage : "The origin remote has been added and the current branch has been published."