I got the latest version of a Visual Studio solution on TFS. But when I try to open the solution in Visual Studio I get the following message:
Source Control
The solution you have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in Visual Studio. Would you like to bind this solution to source control now?
Asking my colleague, I found out that he's been checking in the changes through Visual Studio without any problem.
Here's my question: Considering the fact that I can still check in my changes via IDE, what is the use of binding a Visual Studio solution or project to TFS (or more generally source control)? Except that "lock"/"red tick" icon appearing beside them in Solution Explorer.
Adding Solutions and Projects to Source Control: When you add a solution to source control, the solution becomes part of a dynamic versioning archive created and maintained by the source control provider. Each time someone checks in a new version of the solution, that version becomes part of the archive and is available to other source control users.
According to the warning message, It seems that you are opening from source control a solution that was incorrectly added to source control (it's missing some bindings strings that should have been in the sln or project files). You should click the button yes and Bind the projects correctly to their server location, then OK the dialog. The server file will be checked out and modified locally. You should checkin the changes after that.
I have a solution that is checked into our TFS source control repository, but when I open it in Visual Studio 2005 the padlock symbol that usually tells you it is under source control is missing. The effect of this is that when I save after performing an action in VS2005 that would typically force a solution file checkout (e.g. adding a new project) I get the following error:
The file
xxx.sln
cannot be saved because it is
write-protected.
You can either save the file in a
different location or Microsoft Visual
Studio can attempt to remove the
write-protection and overwrite the
file in its current location.
All the projects auto-checkout fine, and have the padlock icons beside they correctly too. I assume I just need to mark the solution as being under source control somehow.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
Go to File->SourceControl->Change Source Control and set the binding of your project there to an appropriate location in TFS repository.
The link here (Change Source Control Dialog) will give you the details on how to deal with it.
Is there a way to integrate Visual Studio with VSS without doing source control binding?
The problem I have is that my team is opposing to add source control binding to the solution and project files, since they claim it adds more problems (restrictions) for them.
On the other hand, I really like to perform most of the source control operations from Visual Studio.
Is there any way to have the solution file and all the project files the way they are (without added binding to VSS) and still have VSS and VS integration without forcing other team members to use that integration.
I don't see a way to do it per project.
You can however you do it for IDE (all projects loaded).
It is under Tools\Options\Source Control
and then set Binding to None.
I see it in VS 2005 and 2008. I gave it a try in a project I wanted to convert from VS2005 to 2008 and appeared to work (I did not want to check in/out files for conversion).
The answer to your question is "no." Bindings and VS integration are one & the same with SourceSafe. I'm not even sure what it would mean for a solution to be integrated but not bound, or vice versa. What exactly are your teammates looking for?
You can adjust bindings per-project in the File -> Source Control -> Change Source Control dialog. You can also adjust them per-user (effectively; not a supported configuration) by excluding the *scc files from source control. However, you are likely to encounter problems down the road if you try to manage these files yourself instead of using the Add Solution To SCC wizard. More info:
http://alinconstantin.dtdns.net/WebDocs/Scc/_Bindings.htm
http://alinconstantin.dtdns.net/WebDocs/Scc/_WebEnlist.htm
The binding is stored in the .vssscc, .vspscc and MSSCCPRJ.SCC files.
If you don't add these files to Visual Source Safe every developer can configure his bindings like he wants.
Since we use Perforce, I'm not 100% sure if this works with VSS.
I recently migrated a VSS database to TFS 2008. Using Source Control Explorer, I got the latest version of a solution with 12 projects.
When I opened the solution in VS 2005, two of the projects were not found. I am not sure why these two projects were not found, but thought it easiest to just delete and re-add them to the solution.
When I do this, VS gives me a "A project with that name is already open in the solution." The project doesn't appear in solution explorer, and is not listed in the .sln file.
Any ideas?
I had this problem and I was able to solve it using the following steps:
Remove the project from the solution.
restart visual studio.
add the project to the solution as an existing project.
I had the same message... Seems like it comes from (.csproj) project file. Under first propertygroup there is a section named
<ProjectTypeGuids>...</ProjectTypeGuids>
which generally tells Visual Studio to handle that project in some specific way. Some Guids can be found here.
First make a backup copy of that file. Then removing that section can help you open the project as usual project. As it seems that the Visual Studio thinks that the project is not the type that is specified in the ProjectTypeGuids.
This did it for me:
remove the section <ProjectTypeGuids>...</ProjectTypeGuids> in each project
reopen each project, then save to overwrite the existing project file, finally exit
reopen the solution file
pray (optional)
If anyone uses AnkhSVN instead of TFS, it's also possible, that the .sln-file need the following lines:
GlobalSection(SubversionScc) = preSolution
Svn-Managed = True
Manager = AnkhSVN - Subversion Support for Visual Studio
EndGlobalSection
in the "Global" section.
Before anyone tries tempering with their solution- and project files, figure if you may have project dependencies outside the solution, such as IIS - and you forgot to start Visual Studio in Administrator-mode
For me, the project not loaded was because it was configured to use IIS on the local machine and I needed to start Visual Studio as an Administrator.
I have to say that removing the section <ProjectTypeGuids>...</ProjectTypeGuids> could create some problems.
In fact, such a section defines the type of the project and, if removed, could disable some features.
For example, if your project was originally defined as Smart Device (C#), after removing the aforementioned section the on-device debug may not working properly.
Delete .suo file. Build solution. Add Projects.
Unfortunately I don't know the why behind the obtuse error message, I can merely provide what steps I took to get it to go away.
In my case, I had reconfigured my local IIS (<UseIIS> not <UseIISExpress>) and it was no longer hosting the URL that was in the csproj <IISUrl> field.
Editing the .csproj file in another editor and changing that field to the new URL, followed by closing and opening the solution in VS resolved the issue.
I would try hand editing the project/solution files, they are text and pretty easy to read. You can edit the file in notepad. To open up the file as text in visual studio you need to first close the solution. Then do file->open and select the sln file, but instead of hitting the open button, press on the right side where there is an arrow and select open with.. from there you can select source code editor (text).
Somehow VS 2022 doesn't create a virtual directory anymore. I had to manually create the website in IIS
I had the same problem when i migrated a website to a web app project.
Unload the web app.
Add the existing website.
Reload the web app.
The following worked for me when I moved a project running vs2010 to another laptop.
I removed exactly the following and it worked:
<ProjecctType>Guid of sorts</ProjectType>
<SccProjectName>Svn</SccProjectName>
<SccLocalPath>Svn</SccLocalPath>
<SccAuxPath>Svn</SccAuxPath>
<SccProvider>SubversionScc</SccProvider>
For those looking for this while dealing with VSTO projects...
Be sure to have the Office Tools for Visual Studio installed in your machine before opening the project.
I solved it by changing Windows' regional settings. Instead of "English (Europe)", I used "English (United States)". Others have reported similar behaviors with changing for example from "Russian (Ukraine)" to "Russian (Russia)", etc.
-AlessandroSegala
Work For me.
Ref: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/customized-cultures-cannot-be-passed-by-lcid-only/26eb9d4b-7ddb-4774-8a40-7a7d84ba9277?auth=1&rtAction=1455534187354
In my case it was corrupted vbproj file. First line was missing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
After adding this line I had to close the solution, delete .vs folder and open again.
I got it in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4.4.
You may also see:
Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM
component.
when you try to reload your project.
One way to load the project (and deal with IIS directories later) is to edit the .csproj file and set UseIISExpress to true.
Replace:
<UseIISExpress>false</UseIISExpress>
with
<UseIISExpress>true</UseIISExpress>
Then you need to close your solution and open it again and the project should load.
I encountered this issue with web application projects.
When I tried to reload the projects, the VS2022 output said something like :
"The project is configured to use IIS. Unable to find the server
'{site_url}' on the local computer. Ensure that the local IIS is
configured to handle secure communications."
Which is pretty clear. Indeed, in my case, this was caused by my website https binding that just vanished for no reason (it happened to me several times, looks like a bug with Windows 11 & IIS 10). Things got fixed when I got my https binding back (projects could load norammly).
In VS 2022 to open a legacy web project I had to:
Remove from Solution
Change framework version from 4.6.x to <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.7.2</TargetFrameworkVersion> in from csproj
Remove <OutputType>Library</OutputType> from csproj
Close Solution and open it again (!!!)
Add project to the sln again.
For two of my VS 2005 C++ projects, VS wants to write to the .sln file when I build the projects. I have got a number of other VS 2005 C++ projects where this is not the case. It is a problem as due to the fact that we have ClearCase source control integrated with our VS 2005 installations and when we try and run an overnight build via batch files, the build pauses as a ClearCase check out dialog box is displayed.
Looking at what VS is changing in the .sln files, it is the second GUID on the project line.
Before building:
Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "InterCommClientB", "InterCommClientB.vcproj", "{A2AF232A-7F27-4340-81D5-8ABFD10994D2}"
After building:
Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "InterCommClientB", "InterCommClientB.vcproj", "{67BE85B7-3234-484E-88FB-4F0E42096583}"
Any help gratefully received. I am new to VS 2005, as we have only recently migrated from VC++ 6.0, so apologies if I have missed something obvious.
We are running VS 2005 Professional Edition, with SP1 installed.
Regards,
Greg.
I had similar problem. It seems that when converting projects from old versions of VS (like 6 or 2003) VS 2010 is not adding Project GUID to the .vcxproj file. Because of that when you open solution including such project VS will recreate GUID for such project, and will change .sln file but will not change .vcxproj file. So another time you open such solution the situation will be the same and the .sln file may change again.
See this: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/586258/missing-projectguid-in-vcxproj-files
I am guessing here, but it looks like some changes have been made to the InterCommClientB project(project, not the files in the project). When this happens the sln is updated, in this case only the project GUID.
My best guess to resolve this issue would be to manually build the solution and then checkin the changes. This way the sln file won't change on build.
My second best guess is that you already made this changes at your computer and it is working fine, but you did not get lattest version on the pc where you do the night build .
This might be totally out there - but sometimes Visual Studio fails to check-in a Solution file when it's been modified and while the Solution is open in Visual Studio. Try closing Visual Studio, and only then committing the Solution file.
If it isn't that, there might be some other agency causing the Solution file to need to change the GUIDs its using. In one instance, I was using .NET tools from National Instruments, and they has a licensing scheme that would trigger that sort of action (modification of extraneous files for not good reason) whenever I went to do a rebuild.
Please take a careful look at the output from the build (in the log, or the output window) - you may find some further clues there!