When CrossStudio loads a project, it examines the file system folder that contains the project to determine the source-control system the project uses. If CrossStudio cannot determine, from the file system, the source-control system in use, it disables source-control integration.

That is, if you have not set up the paths to the source-control command line clients, even if a working copy exists and the appropriate command line client is installed, CrossStudio cannot establish source-control integration for the project.

User credentials

You can set the credentials that the source-control system uses, for commands that require credentials, using VCS > Options > Configure. From here you can set the user name and password. These details are saved to the session file (the password is encrypted) so you won't need to specify this information each time the project is loaded.

Note

CrossStudio has no facility to create repositories from scratch, nor to clone, pull, or checkout repositories to a working copy: it is your responsibility to create a working copy outside of CrossStudio using your selected command-line client or Windows Explorer extension.

The "Tortoise" products are a popular set of tools to provide source-control facilities in the Windows shell. Use Google to find TortoiseSVN, TortoiseGit, and TortoiseHG and see if you like them.