Any bug tracking addin for Visual Studio?

Question

I don't want a fancy bug tracking suite. Sometimes I am working on projects/tools for myself, and I just want to keep track of any bugs, features, etc.. as I go along. I keep these in TODO and a bugs.txt for now, but it would be nice if there was a typical bug tracking system that would be stored with the project or solution file itself.

EDIT: To clarify, if I have to run any server portion to access it (website, database, etc..) then it becomes sort of useless to me. I want it stored with the project itself so that I can open it up on multiple computers.

Solution 1

Another free for single user product is Axosoft's OnTime. It has a Windows client, as well as integrating with Visual Studio. Uses MS SQL Server as store, and supports SQL EXpress, so it's still free.

Solution 2

Fogbugz is a great solution. However, I'm not sure this classes as a suite or not. It maybe does. It has some useful features which include (in addition to the website), Visual Studio integration and Source Control intergration. You can even add comments in your code to tie your fixes, bugs and code together.

Solution 3

OnTime by Axosoft has a VS.Net add-in, and it's free for a single user.

Solution 4

Since it appears that Visual Studio integration is important to you, I would recommend Visual Studio Team System.

If IDE integration wasn't so important to you, I would recommend Redmine.

Solution 5

I use SourceGear Fortress which provides a very nice cost effective ALM suite which integrates quite well into Visual Studio and a single user license is free

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Comments

[esac]

Odd, I have Team System, and I do not see any bug tracking pieces in it. If it requires TFS, then that's sort of what I mean by 'suite', I don't want to have to run a server somewhere.

[esac]

Thanks, I think this is closest to what I want, if it supported SQL compact framework files so that the database is portable it would be near perfect.

[Nate Cook3]

Where are the VS integration plugins? I looked around the plugins section of the site and couldn't find one.

[user3001801]

VSTS is pretty much the definition of a "Fancy bug tracking suite"

[user3001801]

It's not in the plug-ins section. The Visual studio integration is a separate download (our.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W984). It isn't bad.

[James Jones]

A consultant I know rants and raves about VSTS integrated bug tracking. We use Redmine in my department and I love it... Very versatile/configurable.

[James Jones]

If you haven't heard of Redmine before, you should know it's web-based. Their site is actually an instance of itself so you become familiar with the product as you browse their site. Best of all, it's open source. Check it out!

[Andrew Song]

It's worth mentioning that if this is just for yourself, FogBugz has a "Student & Startup Edition" that you could use free of charge. This won't be included with with your project file naively, but web-based with the VS plugin is probably second best.

[esac]

I think this requires Tools->Connect to Server, and it is this 'server' portion that I don't have.

[Nate Cook3]

I'm using the student and startup edition (well, until I hire my next developer - yay for making money) and I had no idea that there was a vs plugin. +1 johnfx and amadiere

[Jake Berger]

their web site is a major turn-off

[Jake Berger]

their web site is a major turn-off

[connectedsoftware]

I didn't even realise there was a student and start-up edition, I have just switched to that until I hire more people. +1 from me

[Kyll]

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