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Visual Studio - working on the same project across multiple machines

I like to work between my laptop and my desktop in different parts of the day. I recently installed VS 2010 Ultimate (Extreme), and I am wondering how best to organize a joint project with these two machines. Do I need to go with something like subversion, or put the project on a network drive and open it on the current machine on which I am on. Any thoughts or warnings from someone more experienced were appreciated.

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I would probably go with Subversion or Git.

I have a working and home desktop + laptop on which I do all my dev work.

I keep all my changes in Subversion (which in itself is good practice), and that also means that I can continue from where I left very quickly. The quick update team gets my latest code, and I'm ready to go ..

In addition, to save me the need to copy databases or run database projects, I launch my databases on my working PC (which I never disconnect) and get access to it through a VPN. In my applications, there is no need to change connection strings, since My-PC \ SQLEXPRESS works both with My-PC and the other two computers (because they are on the same network).

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If you have a server on an accessible network that receives a backup, use this with the version control application.

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If you have a chance, install TFS. Now TFS can be installed on a desktop machine with Windows 7 or xp

With TFS, you maximize your distributed work. Visual Studio has better integration with TFS.

I suggest you use TFS; if you have a licensed copy or subtitles of MSDN.

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