Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

Common Issues And How To Resolve

• Problem
  • You get an error while opening project: "Projects have recently been added to this solution. Do you want to get them from source control?"
• Solution
  • Click Yes
  • Go to. File->Source Control->Advanced->Change Source Control
  • Select your solution (.sln) in the list and click unbind.
  • Reply Unbind if you get a popup dialog.
  • Click Ok to close Change Source Control window and save changes.
  • Right click solution in Solution Explorer and select Open Folder in Files Explorer
  • Select File->Close Solution
  • Return to Files Explorer and make a backup of your .sln file
  • Open your .sln file with a text editor, for example Notepad++
  • Find and delete section from and including GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution to and including its EndGlobalSection
  • Save and exit your text editor
  • Open your solution in Visual Studio
  • Return to File->Source Control->Advanced->Change Source Control
  • Select your solution in the list, probably at the bottom, click Bind'.
  • Click Ok to close Change Source Control window and save changes.
  • Test closing and opening solution.
  • You can now check in the fixed solution file, compare changes before checking in to make sure only the preSolution section were changed.
  • Tell other project members to get the file, they may need Source Control->Get Specific Changes and select overwrite file even if version matches.