Great article about getting started with VisualSVN, which I found because it was linking back to my post about the TortoiseSVN 1.5.0 release. 
The previous post explained the basics of using Subversion. We used TortoiseSVN from the Windows shell, and while this was really easy to do it isn’t always the most convenient. Luckily for us, there are ways to integrate Subversion with most of the popular IDEs. Since I primarily use Visual Studio, this post will explain how to use a plugin called VisualSVN to manage your repository without having to leave Visual Studio. VisualSVN is simply a front-end for the command line Subversion functions, just like TortoiseSVN. The difference between the two is that TortoiseSVN is a “add-in” for Windows and VisualSVN is an add-in for Visual Studio.
However, VisualSVN uses TortoiseSVN for its functions, so really VisualSVN is just another way to use TortoiseSVN. To explain: TortoiseSVN allows you to access Subversion functions from Windows with a nice GUI, and VisualSVN allows you to access TortoiseSVN from within Visual Studio.There are a few other Subversion add-ins for Visual Studio out there, the most popular probably being AnkhSVN. AnkhSVN is great, but in my experience it’s a little more complicated [than] what most people need.
