Subversion and the ASP.Net Hack
I was recently converting the source control for a product over to SubVersion and this little funny came up. The problem is with directories in the ASP.Net Web Project folder that start with a '.' - directories such as .svn.
Now with that minor inconvenience it is not possible to load the Web Projects into Visual Studio 2003. Luckily the developers of Subversion have coded around Microsoft's stupidity by adding a compatibility flag for the Windows version of Subversion. Set the SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK environment variable in your profile to the value '*' and re-checkout all of your code. The .svn directories will have become _svn directories.
One gotcha is that this is only supported in the Windows version of Subversion. Just be aware that using any other platform on your 'Windows-fied' checkout directories won't work!
Of course you can always avoid the problem by steering away from Web Projects and implementing web solutions as standard class libraries.
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