I'm using TFS for synchronizing my works with my partner on out project. But I have many problems with this. When my partner added some new files to the project and I want to have this files is my local version.
At first I tried to get it by right-click on project in solution explorer and selecting "Get Latest Version". But this method did not get the new files.
Then I went to Source Control and selected all the files and folders in project and pressed "Get Latest Version". The new files downloaded, but it seems that files are not a part of the project. They are just downloaded, but the don't appear in solution explorer near other file.
What is the problem here? Thanks.
Is your solution and project files bound to Source control in TFS? That is one of the things I can come up with with your description.
Those files may be added after mapping is done I think. Also, as #James Reed suggested, those files may not be checked-in.
If those are not the cases, I recommend a "Remove Mapping" and "Mapping" again.
Hope this helps.
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Visual Studio (and possibly TFS) has somehow (I think perhaps during a source control merge) become confused about the path of a project within my solution.
It thinks it is here (example paths for simplicity):
C:\My Projects\ExampleSolution\ExampleProjectWrong\ExampleProjectCorrect.csproj
whereas actually, the project file is located here:
C:\My Projects\ExampleSolution\ExampleProjectCorrect\ExampleProjectCorrect.csproj
I cannot for the life of me get it to recognize the correct location. I have tried:
Removing and re-adding the project from the correct location. An error message comes up saying The project file at C:\My Projects\ExampleSolution\ExampleProjectWrong\ExampleProjectCorrect.csproj could not be found.
Manually editing the .sln file to ensure all references to ExampleProjectCorrect.csproj have the correct paths.
Doing a find in files on the solution directory for both the correct and incorrect paths, to try and track down where studio is hiding the incorrect path.
Deleting the cache directories for VS and TFS
I'm tearing my hair out because I can't recreate the solution as it has near as makes no difference 100 projects in and is tied in to source control with several other developers working on it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where it is storing this incorrect path and/or how to reset it so the damn thing will load correctly?
Go to Manage Workspaces (either through the File/Source Control menu or the workspace drop down in Source Control Explorer)
select edit for your workspace.
You should see, under working folders, a mapping for the source
control directory to the old/wrong project directory.
Select it and click remove.
Close VS and delete the suo file.
It still references the wrong directory. Maybe rebinding might work at this point but I didn't try that. Reload your project and you should be good to go.
Simply deleting the solutions .suo file worked for me.
I was facing this issue after performing a migration from Visual Source Safe 2005 to TFS 2012. I couldn't wait for the "Conversion Wizard" due out in the next couple weeks so I just ran VSSConvert.exe. This took 6 or so years of history and moved it into TFS.. while I didn't get the actual timeline history.. I got a bunch of entries on the same day with the comments indicating the actual check-ins of the history.. not bad.
So after it ran all night (Successfully, yay!), I was having trouble loading my projects just as this question stated. For some reason, a few projects were being referenced to an incorrect directory. I checked the .sln, the .vsproj files, and getting latest, deleting re-getting, adding removing, etc.. I tried everything noted here... even upgrading my workspace, which I'm not sure what that even did.
FINALLY... I deleted the *.suo files and viola. It worked.
I spent a couple hours on this one.
A slightly different solution.
TFS was displaying a non-existing path for a particular Solution. Previously, I had a laptop with a separate D: drive, but now, I just have a C: drive. TFS still thought my project was stored on D:\Project\MikesProject
I didn't have a .suo file to delete, the D: path wasn't mentioned anywhere in my Workspaces (buried away under the File\Source Control\Advanced\Workspaces menu), TFS showed that I did have the latest files in my (no-longer-existant) D: directory, and TFS in VS2013 didn't have a "Remove Mappings" option for this project.
But what did work was to simply do a "Get latest version" on the project.
After doing so, a fresh copy of the code was written to my C: drive, and (interestingly), now the Local Path was shown underlined.
Previously, the D: path wasn't shown like this.
Odd. Very odd.
We've had similar issues with moves and renames.
Deleting the local directories and then getting again solved it.
Even after deleting the .suo file and .vs folders, I had to edit the .sln file and remove the old relative url from SccProjectName# despite the SccLocalPath# being correct. Apparently VS also uses the name as a hint path.
Try to delete or rename .suo file (including extension). This file is at the same location where your solution file is. It worked for me.
Just guessing, but perhaps some of your other projects references your project from the wrong location? In this case, you have not just to delete and re-insert the project into your solution, you will also have to delete and recreate the references from the referencing projects (stored in their .csproj files).
After trying many recommendations I deleted the suo file ( again ). The last time worked. Why it did not work earlier I do not know. In general I find deleting the suo file one of the first steps I do.
I had my asp.net website solution opened from my Dev Branch.
Then for some other purpose I opened same solution from Main branch.
I made a change to one of my .ascx.cs file in the dev branch and set breakpoint. When I ran the debugger, all my break points were hit in the Dev Branch except for the .ascx.cs which was hitting the Main branch. Have not idea.
Tried cleaning the Temporary folder but didn't work.
What worked:
Closed all instances of Visual Studio
Opened the solution from Dev branch again.
Run again and the break points started hitting.
In my case i copied the *.sln file into the project folder and changed the path to project into the *.sln file. Only this resolved the problem (vs 2015 sp1, winservise project).
Delete *.suo does not helps for me.
Yet another solution worked for us - after trying the delete of suo and almost everything mentioned in this thread. We had a project in the solution which was showing a ghost version of the csproj file. We deleted that file and our paths fixed on another project we were trying to add.
Deleting obj and bin files would solve the problem...
I know it is an old line. I just went through the same problem. We recently migrate the TFS, so I created a new workspace to map to new server and kept the old one. Every time when I open a solution which is supposed to target to my new workspace, VS always tried to load projects from my old mapping directory, till I removed my old workspace.
I'm having problems with TFS when adding new files or folders to my solution.
When any other people in the team try to "get latest" it updates every changed file but it doesn't download the new added files!!
If we go to the Source Control explorer, the new files appear as "not downloaded"... and if we force it to download, then we have to include the file in the project in his machine too.
I can't believe this is the normal behavior for TFS (I think this is basic) so I assume we are doing something wrong... Any idea of what's happening??
Thanks in advance ;-)
Have you also checked in the project file to which the added files are related? In Solution Explorer these files will only be available if they are also in the local project file. Also check if the user attempting to download has the project file checked out already.
Update:
From within Solution Explorer you'll only get what's required for the referenced files in the .proj file. For Source Control Explorer yes it should get those files if you've never downloaded them before. Best way to be sure is rather than just do Get Latest (which tries to sync what it understands server side about your local workspace with the server) do a Get Specific Version -> Latest Version. This way you can "force" download of all project files irrespective of existing workspace status.
The hint above did not help in my scenario.
What did do the trick was to check out an old version (with the two overwrite-checkboxes) and get the latest version afterwards (also with the two overwrite-checkboxes).
This is a huge bug in TFS IMO.
I just had the same problem. My co-worker created a new file (with content, not just an empty file). He did a check-in, and everything went well on his end. But the file never got downloaded to my project. I could go into Source control explorer and navigate to the file in question, then do a "get latest version" or "get specific version" on it, but it still didn't appear in my project.
Then my co-worker did some cosmetic changes to the file and did another commit. This time, when I did a simple "get latest version" on the whole project, the file downloaded without a problem.
Check the most voted answer in this thread. This should be the nearest to what you are looking for
Find unadded files in Team Foundation Server
My solution structure looks something like this:
MySolution
FirstProject
SecondProject
SolutionFolder1
SolutionFolder2
SolutionItem1.txt
SolutionItem2.txt
Then there are two workspaces with
this solution at the same version
used by two users on different
computers.
A solution item is removed in the first workspace and the change is checked in into TFS.
In the second workspace the latest version is get from the TFS (the workspace is without local modifications and no files are checked out). Visual Studio displays this message:
Your action caused a check out of the
file(s) C:\MySolution \MySolution.sln,
and a new version from source control
has been loaded in the development
environment.
Now, there are two items in pending changes in the second workspace: solution file is checked out and the solution item is deleted. After undoing these changes and getting latest version, they appear again. These conflicts are resolved only during checkin which is a little bit confusing.
Is there a way how to get rid of this TFS oddity? Thanks.
I cannot find any answer but there is a workaround. Solution probably is not the best place to store complex folder hierarchies with a lot of files. When these folders and files are moved to own VS project then everything works well.
I have a simple Silverlight program that displays a bunch of images. I modified it do display more images, but it when I hit "run without debugging" is keeps running the old build with fewer images. When I copy the code into a new project and run it, it works fine for the first time, but then each subsequent change is not displayed. What could be the problem? I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express.
Always check "Configuration Manager" option on "Build" menu in Microsoft Visual Web Developer. The checkBox "build" has to be checked, otherwise it won't build.
Happened to me, I hope this helps others.
I just had this happen to me in VS 2013 for Web. Had to change the Project URL in:
"Project properties"
"Web" tab
"Servers"
To a different localhost number and recreate Virtual directory.
Before my Project URL was:
http://localhost:55487/
I changed it to:
http://localhost:55488/
Then clicked "Create Virtual Directory".
Would like to know why this happened in the first place.
I found that I had to close all open instances of Visual Studio before I got it working again
This happens because your cache memory is full. just go to you bin and obj folder and delete all the temporary files. Now it will run properly.
Maybe it's a caching issue (webbrowser / proxy).
To fool the browser try to embed the xap file with an additional parameter that changes every time you open the plugin:
<param name="source" value="ClientBin/BubuApp.xap?<%=Guid.NewGuid().ToString() %>"/>
If this don't help, try to clean the project (delete obj / bin folders & xap file).
I was also suffering from this issue and none of the suggestions worked. I was building a Office.js add-in and debugging was with IIS Express.
What fixed the issue for me was deleting files in
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET
Actually, I went ahead and and deleted the entire C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp folder out of spite :)
I also had this issue and while some of the fixes above helped temporarily, the one that worked for me was to remove the history and caching in Internet Options.
Go into Internet Option (also available in VS via Tools > options > Environment > Web Browser > Internet Explorer Options).
On the General tab click Settings in the Browsing History section.
On the Temporary Internet Files page select Every time I start
Internet Explorer
On the History tab set the Days to keep history to 0
On the Caches and Database tab make sure Allow website caches and
databases is NOT ticked.
I'm not sure if all of the above are required, but I've made a number of changes to files and so far they have been reflected straight away in the dynamic versions without any noticeable performance problems.
I've also since realised if I set 'Every time I visit the webpage' instead of 'Every time I start Internet Explorer' I don't have to stop and restart the project to see the changes. Which is how it should be!
I used to suffer this. All of this used to be (for me) a folder's contents issue.
Maybe you can check this:
Delete %windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0xxx\Temporary
IIS Express: even if you change the output file for compiled results, you will see in applicationhost.config that many times IISExpress is really "looking" to the default bin folder of your project.
It is even possible that you have different configurations for Debug or Release, so maybe IIS is looking BIN with Release code, and you are now compiling in Debug to another folder, do you understand me?
Happened to me too. Well i dont know the exact reason for this behavior. But when i close the visual C express 10 and then open again and build it builds the new saved file. I guess it still hangs on to the old file when there is an error in some debug mode or something.
Stop all incntance of VS.
Delete all /bin, not just /bin/Debug. All /bin
Remove user option .suo file in solution dir. It will create on self.
Remove all restore windows point
Stop IIS.
6 Start IIS after 1 minutes.
Rebuild solution, Buid projects
It happing on me too. Very nasty. You may restart your computer.
Check for global asembly dll.
Just delete folder 'Release' in project with old code build.
I had the same problem and none of the answers were working for me. It turns out that building the ASP.Net project did not build the Silverlight project, so running without debugging didn't update the Silverlight.
Fix: Right click the Asp.Net project. Build Dependencies > Project Dependencies. Check the Silverlight project. Now building should work.
If this is a web application, change the Project URL with a new port number.
Example :
Change from http://localhost:3688/
To http://localhost:36881/
To do this:
Navigate to Project properties -> Web
Change the URL
Hit "Create Virtual Directory"
Finally, Build and RUN
I had this issue in a web site.
The site referenced 1 of the projects in the solution, and changes to it would not reflect in the debug.
Issue was a third project was referencing an outdated dll of the same same referenced project.
I removed the project and all references in other projects and readded and re-referenced everything and it worked fine.
Check you haven't got two versions of whichever file you're updating (one for one group of users, one for a different group of users).
In my case(VS 2015) it was because of the missing dll in the .exe directory... I made a "clean solution", then additionally deleted all bin and obj folders' contents. Reason to do so was VS keeping to load old dll build. Solution was to select folder of the running debug config, i.e. everytime I rebuild project destination location with dll and a reference to it stays with warning mark for some time until intellitrace does its job. After doing the setup mentioned above, I still have to do a manual rebuild on a project that generates a dll into specified dir. Pressing F5 does nothing, I don't have time to find out why... Main thing is its working for me
I had this recently too and I didn't see the answer here. I was changing an MMI to get rid of redundant buttons, and they didn't go away.
Really old legacy code. To make it keep user settings - like language - someone had made it keep the Settings. I was not allowed to change this, they want it like that.
To get rid of the old settings and allow new ones:
open regedit
navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - MyProject - SubProject
here you see Recent File List and Settings.
Delete Settings completely - don't worry, it will make a new one.
Please check is there any old .tlb file present in someother folder. In my case i was using the .tlb file generated using .NET dll and then created the .tlb file using RegAsm. I tried to use the .tlb file in vb6 code, it still refers old code only. After a long search i found same .tlb file older version found in Visual Studio\VB98 folder. I removed it then it worked fine. This may not be relevent for this issue but could give you another way of thinking
There is a scroll bar at the top which has 3 options:
debug
release
configuration manager
Make sure release is selected.
I had to clear browsing data and it worked in my case
In showing a colleague how to use SVN yesterday, we created a test folder and file within our existing Visual Studio Solution. We'll call it "Test" folder with two files, "Test.ascx" and "Test.ascx.cs". We added it (or Visual SVN added it, 'cos it's awesome), and committed it. We also added and committed other files elsewhere in the project.
We can see it in the repository (and the other files).
Doing an update on my own machine to pull down these new files resulted in the other files being pulled down correctly, BUT the Test folder does not appear. No matter how many times I try Updating from various points in VS and in TortoiseSVN (urgh) Repo browser, it can't see that there are any changes to pull down.
Where am I going wrong?
This is a known problem.
You can use
$ svn update --depth=infinity
to force the update. With TortoiseSVN, use the "Update to revision" command in the Submenu, then change the depth combobox to "fully recursive".
I've had ghost errors like this before and found the easiest work around is to delete the parent folder and update it's parent:
Project Root
Project
NewFolder
Delete Project, then Update Project Root
We can see it in the repository (and the other files).
...
No matter how many times I try Updating from various points in VS and in TortoiseSVN (urgh) Repo browser, it can't see that there are any changes to pull down.
So you can or cannot see it in the repository browser?
Did you commit and update the parent folder of your Test folder?
I don't know, svn is always telling me to clean, did you try that?
It's not an answer, I know, but I have tried all the solutions you guys have kindly suggested and I just end up with conflicts, crashed TortoiseSVN and built up Karma. Therefore, a trusty edit in the .svn/entries file sorted it.
I have until now been a single developer using SVN just to manage my source code. Other people don't have problems, and I just check in stuff. I use Visual SVN as a layer to frig SVN for .NET (which it isn't great with) and I seem to constantly run into issues. I am performing very simple operations, not even branching/tagging. Simple simple simple. And yet I have issues with it?