TFS Issue: No source control options (get latest, check-out, check-in) for Solution

Question

Background

I created a new project with Microsoft's Team Foundation Service (tfs.visualstudio.com). I added code (Orchard CMS) which includes the solution file and performed initial check-in. To make sure nothing was missed, I removed mappings and deleted my local. Then got latest and reestablished mappings. I opened the solution, built it and set up a local site. Everything worked fine.

Issue

Whenever I open/load the solution, I noticed that I don't have the usual TFS options like get latest, check-out and check-in and source control options. Then I noticed an add to source control option (see below)

Whenever I click on it, I get told that the 'item 'Orchard.sln' is already under source control'

Without source control, I don't have the options and I can't track which files have been updated or not, and the locks as well. Can anyone help please?

Hypothesize

Answer 1

All the source control settings are in the SLN file.

Open it up with notepad, and remove the following GlobalSection (there can be more than one sometimes):

GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution
    ...Stuff...
EndGlobalSection

Now re-bind the solution and project using the: File, Source Control, Advanced, Change Source Control... option.

This should setup the binding correctly. If you check in these changes to SLN, vspcc, csproj files it will stay.

Droplight

In my version of VS (2010 Pro), there is no "Advanced" mid-menu stage. – Postpaid

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@DaveShaw, any idea if it is a Web Site project (as opposed to Web App project), where the TFS bindings get stored at the proj level (since there is no csproj file). – Bacteriology

Answer 2

I was having the same problem. When I opened a file in solution explorer and modified it, it was being checked out.

I fixed it by unbinding my solution and projects and then rebinding them.

To unbind:

(1) selecting my solution in solution explorer (2) selecting File -> Source Control Advanced -> Change Source Control (3) clicking unbind for my solution and all projects (4) click OK

To bind: (1) selecting my solution in solution explorer (2) selecting File -> Source Control Advanced -> Change Source Control (3) clicking bind my solution and all projects (4) click OK

These files will appear under Pending Changes. After I checked them in,, I tested if it worked.

I went to solution explorer, opened one of my .cs files, went to an end of line of code hit enter, and noticed it immediately got checked out.

I didn't have to open my solution in notepad and delete anything as mentioned in another answer.

NOTE: I am using VS 2012 Pro and TFS 2010.

Totten