I hope that StackOverflow can help me with this problem, even if it's not 100% a programming question.
I've created a Visual Studio Online Account so I can manage my Code from everywhere and can share it with my buddies. There is just one problem:
Even though I have read al the Microsoft help about for days, I can't manage to simply create a new TeamProject with code and everything. You really are my last chance to understand it. At the moment, I have deleted all my failed attempts, there are no projects currently on my Account.
When going online, a question prompt appears asking me to create a new project. I enter a name, easy. I don't know what a Process Template is but Scrum sounds most like what I am searching for. It asks me whether I want to use GIT or TFVC. I want to use TFVC as I'm only working with Visual Studio 2013 and I think it's easier to use with it.
It says that my project is now in the cloud and asks me what to do next. I want to "add code", so I click it. Now there's a folder named "BuildProcessTemplate". I don't know how to add code or create a normal Visual Studio project. If I create a new project offline and click "Add to version control", it doesn't add it and if I connect to VS with another PC I can't find the code I wrote.
How am I supposed to simply create a normal project, write code and upload it after? And how can I change it with another PC after that?
I hope you can help me. Thanks!
Open Visual Studio 2013 on your machine, click on "View" in the File menu along the top, then select "Team Explorer". That should open a window with the team explorer. Click on "Connect to Team Projects" (it's an icon that looks like a US plug socket). Then click "Select Team Projects..." and enter your details for your vs online account. That should get you going...
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When i open Visual Studio i see on the top buttons: File, Edit, Selection, View, Go, Debug, Taks and Help. Whatever button i opened i couldnt find any restart button. I searched on the google and also on this website what should i do. I got few same answers- that i should download some sort of restart extension (i am new in programming, so im not quite sure what is the name of it). When i dowloaded it and inserted it in Visual Studio, there was this sentence thats says that VS wont open the file because its too large ( i think that there were another 2 reasons ). I googled that and still couldnt find anything helpful. In all of this searching i found out that this is might connected to option tools
and customize
but i cannot find them aswell. Can anyone tell me roughly what might be the problem? Thanks! :)
If you're looking for some way to restart visual studio, say after installing some plugins, all you need to do is Close and Re-Open it. There is no specific restart button
Using Visual Studio 2015 I was previously working on a project which is in an old Visual Source Safe repository.
I needed to connect to a project in Visual Studio Online (Team Foundation Server) and so in Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Plug In Selection I choose Team Foundation Server and successfully connected to the Visual Studio Online repository pulled down the code, worked on it and checked it in.
The problem comes when I need to access the project in VSS again. I tried to reverse the process. Setting the Plug In Selection back to Visual Source Safe. However even when I don't have a solution open the 'Team Explorer' is still connected to Visual Studio online and I can't connect back to VSS. When I open my VSS based project it is STILL connected to Visual Studio Online as well.
I don't have the option of moving the older project out of VSS just now (not my choice, I'm hoping it's going to change soon but not a choice I can make), and need to carry on working on it. I basically need to disconnect VS from VSO and can't, and can't connect to anything else instead.
Has anyone come across this problem and a solution to it? I've searched but only find answers about disconnecting a project from it's current source control, I don't want to do that, I want each project to remain with it's source control, but I need to be able to choose which source control VS is connected to.
Well I've found AN answer eventually, through trial and error... it's a bit of a faff.
First thing is I forgot that VSS doesn't use the Team Explorer. When I opened the VSS based project the project HAD actually connected to VSS, but the Team Explorer wasn't reflecting that. So I could carry on working on my VSS based project and just ignore Team Explorer.
However I still wanted to disconnect, because it had only been a one-off requirement to connect to that Visual Studio Online project.
What I did was...
1. Log out of my Microsoft account from Visual Studio.
2. Close and re-open Visual Studio.
3. Click close on the prompt to log in to my Microsoft account.
4. THEN the option to delete the connection was available in Team Explorer. Pretty sure it hadn't been there before.
5. Log back in to my Microsoft account.
Unfortunately I had also reset my Microsoft Account password in the trial and error, which I now think was unnecessary. I was just trying to force VS to stop connecting to that repository.
As Team Explorer is not use with VSS you may want to use "Team | Disconnect from TFS" to disconnect. Then switch your control...
Note: As VSS as been completely unsupported for many years you are incurring a significant business risk by staying with it. Have you raised this risk with your executive team? Do they know that their organisational asset is at risk?
I just started working in Visual Studio 2012 in a project group. We are using team foundation server to share our code. I have a couple of problems here I was hoping someone could help me solve them.
I have succesfully connected to our TFS-server and checked out the project, but for some reason when I check my solution explorer it says "0 solutions". I dont know if this is a problem but I feel like it has something to do with my other problems.
I can't, for some reason, press the play button to start debug, also in the menu the debug option is greyed out, 5 obv doesent work either. And in the "project" tab I dont have the option to set my project as startup project wich would make it so that I can debug it.
Check your Source Control Explorer. There you can navigate the code in TFS. Make sure there are files checked in to this location. If not, you will first have to add your project to TFS.
If there are files in TFS, map the files to a location on your harddrive. Then open the solution file by double clicking it in your Solution Explorer.
The MSDN has a nice walktrough: Set Up Team Foundation Server for Version Control
It turns out the local path has to be in the visual studidio\projects folder... re-mapped it and works as intended. No need to answer this anymore, thanks for your suggestions though :)
Im using VS express web developer, and attempting to create a new MVC project. The problem is, VS hangs when adding EntityFramework to the project. Its attempting to add EntityFramework 4.1.10331.0 to an MVC 3 project. Any ideas what might be going on?
It has been a while since you asked the question, but I recently stumbled across a similar issue except with MVC4 adding EntityFramework.5.0.0 in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate.
The issue was that I was trying to create the project in a network folder (I run Windows 7 in a VM on top of OSX).
The problem appears to be that the network folder is not considered a Trusted Location. I had to go into Control Panel -> Internet Options, click "Security" tab, Click "Local Intranet" zone, then click Sites button.
In the "Local intranet" dialog which pops up, I un-checked "Automatically detect intranet network" and checked "Include all network paths (UNCs)"
Now I guess Visual Studio and/or nuGet see the network folder as a trusted location, and EntityFramework.5.0.0 is installed along with everything else a new MVC 4 project requires.
Credit goes to my colleague who referred me to this SuperUser post.
Bit of an old question, but it's still an issue today so this might help someone looking for a solution.
I don't have enough rep to comment on Chris Cameron's answer, so apologies for submitting it as a new answer - all credit should go to Chris. I found that to get it working I also needed to check "Include all local (intranet) sites not listed in other zones." Chris' solution then worked like a charm.
Our TFS server has some temporary connectivity issues right now, and as such VS has gone unresponsive, leaving 50+ developers unable to work!
Is it possible to switch TFS into an offline mode in the event of such an issue?
See this reference for information on how to bind/unbind your solution or project from source control. NOTE: this doesn't apply if you are using GIT and may not apply to versions later than VS2008.
Quoting from the reference:
To disconnect a solution or project
from source control
In Visual Studio, open Solution
Explorer and select the item(s) to
disconnect.
On the File menu, click Source
Control, then Change Source Control.
In the Change Source Control dialog
box, click Disconnect.
Click OK.
The 'Go Offline' extension adds a button to the Source Control menu.
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6e54271c-2c4e-4911-a1b4-a65a588ae138
plundberg: The "disconnect" button is only available for the TFS provider starting in VS 2008. Even then, I'm not sure if it's officially supported. The recommended way to use the Go Offline feature is to [re]open the solution.
Martin Pritchard: if you get stuck mid-operation, you can force VS to timeout by pulling the network plug (literally) or running ipconfig /release.
Once you're marked offline, here's a step by step guide to working in that mode: http://teamfoundation.blogspot.com/2007/12/offline-and-back-again-in-vs2008.html
More detailed info on tweaking the behind-the-scenes behavior:
http://blogs.msdn.com/benryan/archive/2007/12/12/when-and-how-does-my-solution-go-offline.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/benryan/archive/2007/12/12/how-to-make-tfs-offline-strictly-solution-based.aspx
There are couple of little visual studio extensions for this purpose:
For VS2010 & TFS 2010, try this
For VS2012 & TFS 2010, use this
In case of TFS 2012, looks like there is no need for 'Go offline' extensions. I read something about a new feature called local workspace for the similar purpose.
Alternatively I had good success with Git-TF. All the goodness of git and when you are ready, you can push it to TFS.
Depending on which tool windows you have open, VS may or may not try to hit the team server automatically when it starts up.
For best results try this:
Close all instances of visual studio
Open an empty visual studio (no project/solution)
See which windows are opened by default, if source control explorer or team explorer or any other windows that use team are opened (and activated) by default, close them or switch them to a background tab.
Close visual studio
You should notice now that you can start visual studio without it trying to hit the TFS server.
I know its just an aside to your problem, but I hope you find this helpful!
If you have a solution open, and TFS is down, you might have trouble going into offline mode. If you close and reopen your solution, a nice little dialog will appear asking you if you want to Go Offline.
Alternatively if you don't want to close/reopen the solution, (as suggested by Bernie) you can install the TFS Go-Offline plugin, then click:
TEAM -> Go Offline
Simply, change the root folder name for your solution in your local machine, it will disconnect automatically.
I just wanted to include a link to a resolution to an issue I was having with VS2008 and TFS08.
I accidently opened my solution without being connected to my network and was not able to get it "back the way it was" and had to rebind every time I openned.
I found the solution here;
http://www.fkollmann.de/v2/post/Visual-Studio-2008-refuses-to-bind-to-TFS-or-to-open-solution-source-controlled.aspx
Basically, you need to open the "Connect to Team Foundation Server" and then "Servers..." once there, Delete/Remove your server and re-add it. This fixed my issue.
If the code has already been checked out by the user that if offline and they have the latest version on their local hd, then they just need to browse to the solution location and open the solution by double clicking sln file. The solution will open in disconnected mode.