How do I get Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to see I moved code to a different folder?

Question

I moved some code from my c drive to my d drive. When I opened the solution, it told me that:

The solution appears to be under source control, but its binding information cannot be found. Because it is not possible to recover this missing information automatically, the projects whose bindings are missing will be treated as not under source control.

So I tried permanently removing the bindings and downloaded the latest version. Now my changes don't register as pending changes.

I've tried selecting the solution in the Solution Explorer and File => Source Control => Change Source control, but it does not let me bind. Server Name and Server Binding columns have "".

Sheffield

I'm set to go now. I had two copies of the project. When I checked out my code again, it placed it in a subdirectory past where I was loading so I tried loading my project/project.sln instead of source/project/project.sln. – Sheffield

Answer 1

Generally speaking, the location of code on your machine is dependent upon where your workspace is located.

If you move your workspace to the D: drive, then there shouldn't be an issue.

However, if you simply used Explorer to copy the files to the new location, then VS isn't going to be able to maintain the bindings.

From the Workspace Editor you can map the entire tree, solutions or even individual projects to a new location.

1. First off, put it back and undo the changes.

2. Then, Go to File | Source Control | Workspaces.

3. Click on the work space name and then the "Edit..." button.

4. In the working folders area select the source control folder you want to move and give it a new local folder location.

Darby

Answer 2

You will need to edit your Workspaces for TFS Server to know the change that has happened at your local machine. To edit your workspace, in Visual Studio:

• ensure you have no pending changes; also copy your source code folder to some location temporarily, just to be safe (you can remove after you are all set)
• go to Source Control Explorer
• locate the "Workspace:" dropdown
• select the item "Workspaces" from the dropdown list (you will get a dialog titled "Manage Workspaces"
• if you have multiple Workspaces, select the appropriate one from the list in the dialog
• click on "Edit" button (you will get an "Edit Workspace..." dialog)
• down below in the dialog, you will see "Working folders" grid
• click on appropriate row from the grid and modify the "Local folder" path to set to your new folder location

Sometimes TFS and Visual Studio have issues in getting these workspace changes synchronized. I would always close Visual Studio and re-launch it to get my changes synchronized anytime after I make Workspace related changes.

Hope this helps.

Mauretania

What do you mean by "Source Control Explorer"? I can get to Workspaces via File | Source Control | Workspaces... Is there a more full-featured path? – Luminal

I haven't logged into stackoverflow off-late. I meant "View" menu, "Other Windows" menu option, and there you will see a "Source Control Explorer" – Mauretania

Answer 3

the most crude way here (I don't know if there is any other way) is to put the folder back to its old location , Check in your changes then remap the project to the new folder

Postfix

Answer 4

When you move files/folders to make the moves pending changes you need to use a TFS client to do the moves.

For one or two files the Team Explorer UI is OK, for more the command line is easiest.

See tf.exe rename on MSDN (tf move is an alias for rename). There is also step by step help on using the GUI: Move, Rename, and Delete Version-Controlled Files and Folders.

Hazlip