I work on a team that uses Ryder. I want to use Visual Studio 2022.
When I open the solution, Visual Studio makes a bunch of changes to the solution file (it modifies one of the project guids and adds debugging information for it).
I'm not allowed to check in these changes, nor are they needed, so every time I check anything in to git, I have to undo the changes to the solution file.
Is there any way to disable Visual Studio 2022 from doing this?
I've searched every setting I could think of and read the documentation but I can't find anything. I don't want Visual Studio to change my solution file if I haven't added or removed projects.
Though not exactly a "fix", I have a workaround that's been quite helpful from time to time. Copy the .sln file so you have a second one with a different filename. Let VS do what it wants to that second .sln without affecting the first one. You can take it one step further and gitignore the second file so that git will not constantly want to 'add' it to the repo.
I never did find a solution for this. I run a script every time I check in to undo the change to the solution file.
I am the only one on the team using Visual Studio and the team has strict rules about can be committed so this is the only solution.
It's not a problem now that I'm used to it, and I love Visual Studio 2022 so I'm willing to put up with it.
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I am working on visual studio 2010.
I have done some changes in files and then I have closed the visual studio.
But now I want to restore the project, means I want to undo the previous changes.
lets say first version is version1 after changes this it becomes version2. I save these changes and close the visual studio. now I want version1 instead of version2.
So is there any way to restore the project in visual studio or on the basis of history I can get the the old project.
Please help me how can I solve this issue.
Unless your code in under version control: nope, there is not!
It's too late now, but setting up a git repository on your local machine is very easy (see this SO answer) and will save you that kind of problems in the future.
Recently I was trying to load a solution source controlled by TFS but some projects in that solution were not being loaded in solution explorer inside visual studio. After spending hours of my time, for temporary reason when I deleted the whole "Global Section" at the end of .sln (solution file) by manually editing it in a notepad and restarted Visual Studio, all projects appeared as expected. I am using VS 2008. It hasn't shown any odd behavior yet, but couldn't understand the reason.
Does "Global Section" in solution file play and important role? Any harm in removing global section?
Well, you just deleted any source control bindings, plus build configuration and some solution-specific settings.
VS should revert to defaults if it doesn't find the section, though I suppose it would have been better if you knew just what was causing the issue. If the problem was with TFS then maybe resetting that fixed the problem.
As to harm, again, if VS is able to cope with the removal of the section and can revert to defaults then I see no harm. Of course you might lose configuration information, which will have to be re-applied.
I just had Visual Studio fail on a commit due to a merge conflict and when I was done I had about 10 files that it thought were checked in that in reality never made it to TFS.
I ended up having to compare every file I might have changed and adding a single space to the ones I did... quite tedious. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to tell which files have been changed in this situation?
Visual Studio will recheck all files when you change from offline mode to online.
If you don't mind losing the changes, you can also just re-checkout everything with the option to overwrite files enabled.
I've been developing a project for a while, and we have started a "documentation" folder in the Visual Studio 2008 solution so that we can keep the developer documentation (and a few other useful files) in there (it's one of Visual Studio's solution folders, rather than a project). We're also using the AnkhSVN plugin so these files get copied to Subversion.
However, every time I save any of the files, Visual Studio automatically removes it from the solution, so I have to add it back in,and then close Word again without saving.
I'd have thought this was a fairly easy problem to solve, but the past three weeks (and reading many spurious results on Google for almost every search query I can think of that might be relevant) seem to have proved me wrong.
Does anyone have any ideas how to stop this behaviour?
I don't know if this still happens with VS2013, but for VS2010 here is a detailed explanation on the cause and a work-around:
Word files disappear from "Solution Items" in VS2010
Are you sure the files are removed and not just hidden? I had a similar thing with non-code files.
Showing and Hiding Hidden Files in Visual Studio 2008
Is there a way to tell Visual Studio 2005 to just ignore source control binding when opening a solution? I sometimes need to load a solution for which I don't have access to the source control server, but Visual Studio insists on trying to connect anyway, meaning I have to click "temporarily work offline in disconnected mode" for every project in the solution (of which there are about 20) as it loads. For some reason, it also tries to check each project out immediately after I've told it to work offline, so I have to click past that dialog box too.
As I will never need to edit anything in this solution, is there any way I can open it and have Visual Studio just ignore the fact it has source control bindings in it?
Edit: Ideally, I'd like a way to do this without having to change the project/solution files. They change fairly frequently, so I'd have to redo any changes every time there was a new version (otherwise I'd just unbind them once and it wouldn't be a problem).
Thanks for the replies so far.
The source control bindings are stored in Visual Studio solution file (.sln). For TFS for example, it contains a global section for TFS information and the solution projects added to TFS. You can edit the solution file to remove these bindings manually. I would suggest making a copy of the solution file first. However, I would recommend removing bindins via Visual Studio. Open your solution and go through the offline scenario. Then go to File/Source Control/Change Source Control (VS 2008) to bring up the UI that shows you the source control bindings in your solution. There you can manage the bindings including unbinding them. Once unbound, the next time you open the solution, VS should not have a need to access the source control.
I've been looking for a way to disable Integration between SourceSafe 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. We are forced to use SourceSafe being in a corporate environment and all. SourceSafe is fine on its own if you treat it like a baby. As soon as you try to do anything approaching useful it starts to break. God forbid you try to use the integration with Visual Studio. Being that I didn't want the "Bindings removed" so that it doesn't confuse other devs on the team I needed to be able to tell Studio to ignore the solution and project bindings and continue on it's merry way.
I followed the registry hack suggested in the following post
Removing SourceSafe Integration from Visual Studio 6
Studio did what I wanted...sort of. It removed the SourceSafe integration. However when I opened up a source controlled solution it asked me if I wanted to remove the bindings.
"the projects will be treated as not under source control"
No I don't want you to remove the bindings from the files, I want you to IGNORE them. This dialog pops up every time you open the solution/project file and there is no way around it.
My solution at the moment seems to have worked...for now.
File->Source Control->Change Source Control...->Disconnect
I hope this helps anyone else in the position of having to use SourceSafe but can't remove the bindings from the files themselves. WHY, Microsoft, WHY would you put the bindings in the files themselves?
/rant