Check out from the Repository Explorer

From the Repository Explorer, you can directly check out a project or solution and open it in the Solution Explorer.

1. In visual Studio, go to View > Repository Explorer.
2. To add a new Subversion repository path, click the globe icon and aenter it.
3. Browse to the solution you want to check out, right-click and select Open.
4. In the Open Project from Subversion window, browse to the local folder where you want the repository content to be checked out. For example, "C:/project1".
5. In the Version field, select the repository revision you want to check out. By default, the latest revision is checked out.
6. Click OK.