Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Visual Studio likes to work disconnected, but how to reconnect ?

I like to work on my notebook and work when- and wherever i can, like when in the train or plane etc. That did mean to work without any internet access and thus working on a checked-in C# project. Now fortunatly, both Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 nice let you know that it can simulate a check out and let you work disconnected. Very useful and just a confirmation click away. I might have been the only one expection it to nicely ask me to work connected again as soon as VS would start and find a connection to the VSS server again.

It didn't, and it took my at first quite a bit of time and hassle to reconnect AND be sure that no updates on my (faked checked-out) files at first.
While I could see that Visual Studio 2003 was a first of its kind, VS 2005 certainly isn't (I do definitely believe that MS did a good and extensive job with both versions, though). So I was again naive and looked forward to making reconnecting the project much easier, but I was in for a suprise - it did exactly what it's predecessor (?) did - nothing !

So whether you're in the fortunate situation to already work with VS 2005 or still stick to VS 2003, you still have to open "File" menu, go to Source Control and indicate to "Change Source Control" (which is not quite what I really want to do, but well..). You'll find your projects being disconnected, and have to check the box for each (and usually all listed) projects, which then causes VS to (most of the times, but you might even there run into trouble) connect again and let you know about next steps. For me, doing a GetLatest while not letting it overwrite writable files did the trick.

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