Does anyone know what these icons mean in TFS 2017 Source Control Explorer? The files are .cpp and .h... The icons for the two newly added files show up correctly (as seen below), but the existing files all turn into the multi-yellow-document... why is it replacing the icon for file type?
The icons initially load correctly, but seem to change after being analyzed...
I just came across a more specific solution than uninstalling all of the TFS Source Control Explorer Extension. The "icon change" functionality that is causing this can be optionally toggled on its own from Tools->Options. Set "Files icon change" = False to disable this icon behavior.
If file is branched to more than one location its icon is changed to icon as this.
File icon change
In the file list on the left side of Source Control Explorer
window are branched files displayed with changed icon.
I was wondering if you or your mates have installed TFS Source Control Explorer Extension. Please also check this link for more detail information：
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What does this dotted file icon mean? It's a .cs file but it is not behaving right in my project and I've noticed this separate icon in Solution Explorer:
I've checked the MSDN Documentation in three places
Another page at MSDN
Yet another page at MSDN
I've also checked the Visual Studio Documentation itself, which is rather obscurely organized.
I've even checked this website:
Lastly, I found this topic with a similar question but both the question page and the references inside do not have this icon. Thanks for your help.
This means that the file isn't included in the project.
You're only seeing it because you turned on Show All Files.
You should right-click the file and click Include in Project.
You have "Show all files" checked.
The dotted lines indicate files that have not been added to your project.
Right click on the file and click "Include in project" to include the file in your project.
That "dotted" icon mean that that file is not a part of your project or it is hidden and it is not included in your project.
That "dotted" icon is pretty similar to the icon in Solution Explorer called "Show all files". When you click on it you can see all the files and maybe you click on it or you have some issue and your file is not included in the project.
To include it you can right click one of those files go to Include In Project and that will add it to the project, which declares it in the manifest of your project. You can do it like this:
It is not included in your project and/or hidden.
As per the tags, I'm using VS2013 and TFS2013.
There are multiple projects in the solution: Model, Presenter, View, etc. All other projects are working as expected in terms of source control operations.
Problems with the Model project:
Adding a new file via Solution Explorer isn't automatically detected as a pending change
Deleting a file isn't detected either
Other source control operations work fine for the Model project, such as:
Get latest version
Edit detection for existing files (including changes to the csproj
file when a new file is added)
Checking in pending changes
The csproj file would show up in pending changes with the newly added file listed in it, but the new file itself isn't showing up, therefore causing build errors on other developers' machines if only the csproj changes are checked in.
The workaround is to find the added file in solution explorer and Add via context menu, this will make it appear as a pending change. But this process should be automatic as per the other projects.
Noticed that there is no .vspscc file for the Model project while other projects have one each.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
I would unbind and rebind the problem project and try again:
To unbind a solution or project from source control
In Visual Studio, open Solution Explorer and select a solution or
project to unbind.
On the File menu, click Source Control, then Change Source Control.
In the Change Source Control dialog box, click Unbind.
To bind a solution or project to source control
In Visual Studio, open Solution Explorer and select a solution or project to bind.
On the File menu, click Source Control, then Change Source Control.
In the Change Source Control dialog box, click Bind.
Select the database and location to which to bind, and click OK.
Click OK.
You might need to go to Advanced to find the Change Source Control option
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0eh3790h%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
Before unbinding and binding your solution try his:
Go to Source Control Explorer
Click the "Add Items to Folder" (the
one on the left of the red cross)
Select the items you want to Add and follow the instructions on screen
That's all
Click <Detected: x add(s), x delete(s)> : in the source control explorer then select the file to add
For years I've been relying on 'Detected Adds' to add missing files - which was never a sustainable solution but I've just about managed with it.
But now if broke.
I'm actually about to reinstall Windows but in the meantime one of the best ways I've found to get a sense on what's missing (and it's still working even though the detected adds isn't) is the recursive 'Compare' window.
You can add files from here too.
It's a little klunky but it gives me a good sense of security and shows file diffs if you want to see what may have changes.
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, so forgive me if it is not.
Our group uses Accurev (AccurBridge) for our source control.
I wanted to know where the vs 2013 source control list is read from? VS is not detection all my source control options all the time, so I would like to make sure that this folder is always in the list.
Thanks,
I recommend you'll install TFS source control explorer extension:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/af70cbb7-1e0d-4d16-bc57-cccc15370c51
Which includes the following features:
Move to Folder
Branch to Folder
Merge from Sources File icon change
Drag & Drop
Show / hide deleted items
Destroy
Source Control changes and fixes
Update Since you added you are using Accurev - go to AccuRev menu and choose Workspace Information.
There you'll see the attribute "Accurev_BIN" which display the folder where AccuRev read its source controlled files.
I hope that support your question.
I moved some code from my c drive to my d drive. When I opened the solution, it told me that:
The solution appears to be under source control, but its binding
information cannot be found. Because it is not possible to recover
this missing information automatically, the projects whose bindings
are missing will be treated as not under source control.
So I tried permanently removing the bindings and downloaded the latest version. Now my changes don't register as pending changes.
I've tried selecting the solution in the Solution Explorer and File => Source Control => Change Source control, but it does not let me bind. Server Name and Server Binding columns have "".
Generally speaking, the location of code on your machine is dependent upon where your workspace is located.
If you move your workspace to the D: drive, then there shouldn't be an issue.
However, if you simply used Explorer to copy the files to the new location, then VS isn't going to be able to maintain the bindings.
From the Workspace Editor you can map the entire tree, solutions or even individual projects to a new location.
First off, put it back and undo the changes.
Then, Go to File | Source Control | Workspaces.
Click on the work space name and then the "Edit..." button.
In the working folders area select the source control folder you want to move and give it a new local folder location.
You will need to edit your Workspaces for TFS Server to know the change that has happened at your local machine. To edit your workspace, in Visual Studio:
ensure you have no pending changes; also copy your source code folder to some location temporarily, just to be safe (you can remove after you are all set)
go to Source Control Explorer
locate the "Workspace:" dropdown
select the item "Workspaces" from the dropdown list (you will get a dialog titled "Manage Workspaces"
if you have multiple Workspaces, select the appropriate one from the list in the dialog
click on "Edit" button (you will get an "Edit Workspace..." dialog)
down below in the dialog, you will see "Working folders" grid
click on appropriate row from the grid and modify the "Local folder" path to set to your new folder location
Sometimes TFS and Visual Studio have issues in getting these workspace changes synchronized. I would always close Visual Studio and re-launch it to get my changes synchronized anytime after I make Workspace related changes.
Hope this helps.
the most crude way here (I don't know if there is any other way)
is to put the folder back to its old location , Check in your changes
then remap the project to the new folder
When you move files/folders to make the moves pending changes you need to use a TFS client to do the moves.
For one or two files the Team Explorer UI is OK, for more the command line is easiest.
See tf.exe rename on MSDN (tf move is an alias for rename). There is also step by step help on using the GUI: Move, Rename, and Delete Version-Controlled Files and Folders.
I've got two branches of code. 1 has a dialog box that the other doesn't, but because of politics the dialog box wasn't moved into the newest branch. Now they want it in...
So is it possible to copy a dialog box from one project to another.
There apears to be an export and import feature however it's greyed out.
.RC files are simple text files. You can simply copy/paste the DIALOG text from one .RC file to the other. Make sure that you copy the corresponding RESOURCE.H entries as well.
Alternatively, you might be able to open both .RC files and then simply drag-and-drop the dialog from one to the other.
Update for Visual Studio 2010 - 2013:
You can still drag-drop and copy-paste, but only outside of your project / solution.
Close solution, open both RC as files without any open solution, and go. For drag, "Hold down the CTRL key and drag the resource to the second .rc file. For example, drag IDD_DIALOG1 from Source1.rc to Source2.rc."
Microsoft - How to Copy Resources
Drag and drop doesn't work in Visual Studio 2010. Editing the .RC file does work but be careful. For me the ID for the dialog showed up with *ID_etc*. I copied it and removed the *'s and it seemed to fix the problem.
I finally figure it out how to copy a Dialog from one solution to another.
Steps:
Open both solutions in separte windows.
Add a new Blank Dialog -Add Resources-> add->newDialog
Open Both Dialogs Open Binary data.
Copy the Binary data from source solution dialog to Destination Dialog
This is just to add some visual detail to the accepted answer (by Roger Lipscombe) along with its steps.
In order to copy a resource such as a Dialog from one project another project, below steps can be followed.
Start a new instance of Visual Studio.
Open both source and destination .RC file as files, as shown in the picture.
From the source RC file, copy required dialog.
Switch to the destination RC file tab and simply paste it.
Please note that this operation would have updated the resource.h file. That is an excellent help by Visual Studio.
One will have to make sure that no duplicate resource IDs are present in the resource.h file. When working with some legacy projects, it is found that there came some duplicate resource Ids that had to be manually corrected. It looks like such an effort is worth considering the mammoth task required otherwise.