I have a workspace in VS2015 (same problem in 2013) that I'm trying to completely remove and start fresh with a copy from the server. To clarify, I want none of the files or changes that currently exist and I want to start completely fresh with the server copy of all files. I don't know how to correctly do this, however. I've deleted the workspace, the actual files that the workspace pointed to, and I've cleared the cache locations below, but VS still shows that the workspace exists and won't fix itself. In fact, it still shows the mapping even though I've triple-checked that it's deleted.
I'd like to avoid using devenv /reset since I'm pretty customized and I don't want to fix all of it, but I'll do it if it's unavoidable. How can I accomplish this?
Locations cleared/deleted:
%LocalAppData%\Temp\<all VS files/folders>
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Team Foundation
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\ComponentModelCache
On the window where you can get a specific change set from TFS, get the changeset with id "1". This is the situation just before the project was created - empty!
Right mouse om project node in solution explorer
Source Control > Get specific version
Version type "change set"
Input change number "1" (without quotes)
Click "Get"
Related
When Source Control Explorer shows that a file is Not Downloaded, selecting Get Latest Version will result in the following:
I don't remember this happening in the past. Is there a way to prevent this?
This kind of error or situation may occur when using "Get Latest Version" after someone else has just added a new item to source control.
For example, it seems to be triggered by multiple people working on the same solution at the same time. So if you check stuff in, then the other user gets this message when doing a "Get Latest". It appears Visual studio is detecting the files that were checked in by the other user and then pulling them in the background but not updating the local workspace data, so when you do a Get Latest, the files already exist, but it gets confused as to the source control status and throw this because it's confused.
One solution for this issue is closing your Visual Studio and clear TFS cache. Then open the Visual Studio and get latest for this file again.
Another way is directly removing the work space and create a new one then tfs will prompt you to download everything again. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181386(v=vs.100).aspx This should do the trick.
We are working with building ETL packages in SSIS using a TFS repository. When my collegue add new files to the repository they are not added properly to the repository even though he checks in the entire project file. He sees the files in his project folder, and it looks like everything is checked in. But when I click on "Get latest version" I get a warning that the package is missing from the project directory. If any of us then try to add the file again we get a warning that the file all redy exists, even though it is not visible in my folders. Right now the solution we are using is for him to delete the file and then commit the change. After he deletes the file I get the latest version. Then he sends me the files and then I add them to the repository. Once I have added the files things seem to work as expected. Has anyone else had this problem, and know of a solution?
UPDATE:
The solution we found now is that I have to go to the local folder and find the new file my colegue added. Then I right click the file he just added and select add to project. Then the new file is visible in my version, but it does not have a blue lock icon next to it. If I then double click the sln-file to reload the project the blue lock icon is visible to me.
It is still not an optimal solution, but it works a lot better than him having to send me the file so I could check it in.
Is this the way TFS is supposed to work?
Can you please check the mapped work space path in your local machine there you will find the checked code. You need to manually Add.
Right Click on SSIS package -->AddExisting Package--> Select the package from Workspace-->Ok
Now you will find the missing package in your Solution Explorer as well.
If you are using TFVC.
Open Source Control Explorer=>Right click that solution/project folder=>View History, then check the related ChangeSet whether he add the file correctly.
Let your college to check the permission of that folder/file: Right click the folder/file->Advanced=>Security.
Regards
hello i want to make a copy of my TFS solution to avoid the control of source code.
i mean to have 2 same solutions, one on tfs and one other without tfs.
tried to copy mapped folder solution on my desktop and VS 2010 return a message everytime as
1. work temporarily offline
2. remove permanently the solution
If you are sure you are working on the 'copy' then you can remove the source control bindings safely. If you have picked the wrong one, use the source control window to roll back the change.
I am using VS 2010 and recently I moved some files around and changed paths etc.
The solution still compiles correctly and all files are able to be loaded/compiled without error however just about every time I go to compile after a change it gives me the save as dialog and asks me to save one of the projects, if I try to give it a new name or something the dialog does not exist nothing I do can make it exit apart from pressing cancel.
If I do a build straight after cancelling it works fine and I'm not presented with the save as dialog. I have verified that the project file is not read only.
Any ideas as to whats going on here.
The solution is stored in TFS 2008
You need to do 2 things
1- remove the read-only tick from the project folder
2- when a save-as window prompts at build, just overwrite the project
next time you build, the window won't pop up
You need to run VS as administrator. (right click on VS Icon- Run as administrator)
I solved the issue. When I try to save as this time it gives the error that file is being used by another process. Google Sync prevents to save so it opens save as dialog.
You should put your project under a folder not sync while working.
Are the bindings in TFS set up correctly with the new location? TFS will mark files as read only unless they get checked in. It might have been marked as such before you moved everything around, and now, isn't being checked out properly.
Also, try closing sync. files tools like google backup and sync.
At the moment when unmapping a source on TFS Source Control in Visual Studio 2010, the local downloaded files are removed automatically.
How can I keep them untouched?
Nam.
In VS2012
"You can remove the mapping in the Manage Workspaces dialog (File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Workspaces...) Pick your workspace and select edit, remove the entry for that mapping. Then hit OK. When prompted to perform a Get you can say "no" and the items will stay on your local disk until you next perform a Get."
I added some more information on to it.
Source: Remove Mapping
Just in case anyone else need help with this because i went for hours searching for the solution....and this is the way to see all the mappings you have and remove them if wanted without deleting local files.
I have not seen this behavior. When un-mapping, are you choosing to re-download all files in the workspace? If so, choose not to do that, and the files should be preserved locally. Keep in mind that TFS is no longer tracking changes at that point, so it could get you into a lot of difficulty if you inadvertently make changes to those files.
What kind of process are you trying to implement that you need to keep these files around after an unmap? Maybe there's a different way to accomplish what you need?
--EDIT--
When you're doing this, files are just files, so you could:
do a Get of all files in that workspace
copy them to another folder on your hard drive
map that new folder
Do an "add files" on everything in the new folder structure
check in.
You will have to rebind all of the projects/solutions to source control when you do this.