In Visual Studio 2008, I can unshelve changes from the solution explorer context menu. It was easy back then.
Now I am using VS2015. I found that you'll be able to do this in the later versions by selecting Team Explorer > Pending changes > Actions > Find Shelvesets.
They must have a good reason for doing this. Does anyone know why they made it so?
Can you share your workaround for this?
I had about 20 files pending changes in my solution in Visual Studio 2015,I had a problem with repository so clicked on "Undo pending changes" thought I had already had shelved my changes. After undoing pending changes I noticed that I hadn't created any shelveset of those change.
I googled a bit about it and I found this link How can I get my changes back after clicking “Undo pending changes…” in Visual Studio 2013 and TFS
I tried the solution mentioned in answers of link above but there is no TFSTemp folder in my AppData\Local\Temp folder do notice that I'm using Visual Studio 2015 but the user asked this question is using Visual Studio 2013. Maybe vs 2015 store TFSTemp in different location but where ???
Any Idea about how I can get my changes back???
Any help would be greatly appreciated
The TFS Temp folder should be the same path "AppData\Local\Temp\TFSTemp". It's not related to VS version. If you could not find it in your own account, give a try with Admin account (If the VS run in Admin mode)
You should be checking in frequently or setup some sort of backup system to avoid mistakes like this. If the files are gone from your file system, they're gone. Maybe a file recovery utility could do the trick, but the solution is too complicated. Besides past that, there's no way to get them back.
I'm a TFS administrator for my project and I want to implement a few check-in policies to remember developers to follow specific procedures.
However, when I got to the Settings->Source Control dialog. I only see the tabs "File Types" and "Workspace Settings". There is no "Check-in Policy" tab.
I have Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 2, full installation
I checked the permissions and all the roles I'm member of has the Edit project-level information permission as either "Allow", or "Inherited Allow".
I could not find specific information as to what I may be missing that is causing this tab not to be there.
Does any one of you have an idea of what I may be missing?
Thanks!
I believe you must be admin on the Team Project level. You may also look into TFS power tools, although they shouldn't be needed to make the required changes. 4
Are you using a Local instance of TFS or are you using Visual Studio Online?
I'm working in a big project in Visual Studio 2010. Often I must wait the check-in before doing simple test. How can I work with Visual Studio 2010 offline when TFS Server is available?
I'm not sure I understand your question 100%, but there are a couple of options depending on what you mean.
First of all, working offline is not possible with TFS 2010, but is available with local workspaces in TFS 2012 (overview in this article)
You say that you're waiting for check-in to complete. If you have a plain check-in situtation, then you have a couple of choices:
You can open a second instance of Visual Studio, and work while the first instance completes the check-in.
You can open a command prompt and use tf.exe checkin in your workspace directory.
If you have a gated check-in, then you can check the 'Preserve my pending changes locally', and you will be able to keep working on the changes until they have been validated and checked in. (further details in this article)
All that being said. A simple check-in should not take more than seconds. So if you're waiting a long time for a normal check-in situation, then you might have some performance/server issues.
My issue is that I cannot add SourceSafe Database for source control within Visual Studio 2010.
Our team was initially using VSS for source control in Visual Studio 2010. During an evaluation of TFS, I switched my source control to TFS. It will be a few weeks before a decision is made on TFS, so I needed to switch my source control back to VSS. However I'm now unable to add a SourceSafe Database in Visual Studio.
Steps to Reproduce in Visual Studio 2010:
1) Access the 'Open SourceSafe Database' form via Tools->Options->Source Control->Plug-in Settings-->Advanced
or via File->Source Control
2) The list of available database is blank so I choose 'Browse'.
3) I browse to the srcsafe.ini file for my VSS database and select it.
4) I'm promted to confirm the Database Name - Click OK.
5) The database does not appear in the 'Open SourceSafe' Database form. The list of available databases is still blank.
Note that I can add the database fine outside of Visual Studio using VSS directly. However the databases I add via VSS do not appear in the Visual Studio forms.
I'm suspicious that this is related to "down-grading" from TFS to VSS which may not have been heavily tested at MS.
Any assistance is appreciated.
I installed VS2010, then i install VSS, then i have the same problem, cant connect to my VSS it by default opens (TFS)
the suggestion here, to reinstall, dont sound good, did a bit more searching and found this:-
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vssourcecontrol/thread/6c927805-bca6-445b-b406-0a0da8fa21d3
and found the easy solution that 'CletusLoomis' is looking for:
simply:-
hanks for your post.
Could you please try the following steps?
Open VS2010, then choose the menu: Tools->Options, then click "Souce Control"
click drop-down box under text"Current souce control plug-in", use "None", rather than "Microsoft Visual Source Safe"
thats it, problem solved!
:)
hope this helps someone else who found this page via google.
To do that you must run Visual Studio 2010 as Administrator. Just click on Icon using right button, Go to Properties, Compatibility, at the botton of screen you should mark Run this program as administrator.
That's all.
Must exist some file that the permission should be granted to all users, but instead of searching for the file, I preffer this solution.
Regards,
Luiz Ricci
My Visual Studio 2010 had very similar symptoms: having selected Visual SourceSafe 2005 in the Options I had the only menu option: Launch Microsoft SourceSafe
While following the steps provided by 'visual' (as of Nov 30 '10 at 8:00) I have found the following registry key, which needs to be switched to 0 to enable the SourceSafe menu options to be displayed in Visual Studio 2010. Once the registry key value has been changed to zero Visual Studio needs to be restarted and .. voila! Now I have an additional menu option Open from source control...
The registry key is as follows (for 32bit OS it would need to be slightly modified): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SourceSafe\Namespace Extension\DisableOpenFromSourceControl
Now, why it was disabled by default is beyond me.
Your installation of VS might be corrupted. I would recommend uninstalling VSS, VS, and TFS and then reinstalling VS and VSS. Unfortunately, this could take 4+ hours, but it should fix your issue.
I don't believe that my VS installation was corrupted. I do believe there is a bug in VS 2010 which does not allow me to use VSS for source control after having used TFS. Fortunately for me, our team decided to go forward with TFS for our project's source control. I never had to solve the problem. I believe that reinstalling Visual Studio alone would have been enough to solve the issue.
I had the same problem with Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and VSS. I noticed several things:
VSS as standalone program does always work on my system.
VSS works perfectly in my projects, if the UAC Level is the lowest, but not with the default UAC Level.
If I open a project file with VSS source control, Visual Studio tries to read the registry. It fails to read/write the keys in the registry with access denied. Therefore I changed the permissions in the registry of the SourceSafe keys to full access for all users. Now, VSS works perfectly on my system with default UAC security level.
I faced the same problem.
I am using Visual Studio 2010 and my projects added to Visual SourceSafe 6.0
The VSS database list was not prompted on my machine as well.
After a number of attempts for over 3 hours. Finally got a solution.
I run the VS2010 using Run As Administrator option. The VSS database list was visble.
I think the issue might be due to Access Rights of Registry in Windows 7.
What a nightmare this has been. Ultimately, you can set in domain or local policy.
Local Security Policy\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode - Disabled
This means anyone in the administrator group does not have to have approval (The Dreaded Run as Administrator)to be an administrator. Can be set locally as above or domain wide. Solved a lot of problems for us.
Options -> Source Control -> Make sure the "Current Source Control Plugin" is correctly set.
Mine was set to Microsoft Visual Source Safe (Internet), and should have been Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
First, make sure you can view the database by visual source safe explorer.
Then, trying to proceed with these step...
Open Visual studio as Administrator.
Log in visual source safe by the database path. (it still disappears the database in "Available database" list.)