CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studiotfs
We Are All Monica
We Are All Monica

Reputation: 13336

Disable warning that solution is not under source control?

Shamefully, we use TFS at work for a C# project. I wish we could move to svn or git, but we can't change that. All of us working on the project hate the automatic check-out "feature" of TFS, so we checked in our solution and project files as unbound from TFS.

Now, whenever we open the project, we get the following message:

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?

Is there a way to disable this message while keeping the solution unbound from the buggy and annoying integrated source control?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 9873

Answers (3)

jeroenh
jeroenh

Reputation: 26782

Another possibility could be to move to a 'git-tfs' combined solution. You would move your team to git, and sync with TFS on a regular basis. This way, only one person has to live with the TFS annoyances.

I have no experience with that, but apparently it has been tried before

Upvotes: 2

jeroenh
jeroenh

Reputation: 26782

If you like the svn/git model better, then I honestly wonder why you would want to turn off automatic checkout? You can configure VS to silently check out files on edit. This comes pretty close to the svn way of working, no?

Also, ensure that the TFS server is configured to allow multiple checkout on all text-based files, and you should be good to go. You can also install your own diff and merge tools (e.g. TortoiseDiff/TortoiseMerge) if you want.

Upvotes: 0

Robaticus
Robaticus

Reputation: 23157

The message you reference has nothing to do with TFS, it has to do with integrated source control within Visual Studio. If you really want to get rid of this message, go to Tools->Options->Source Control and set your source control provider to "none."

Then, go and download the Team Foundation Power Tools and enable the shell access, and you'll be able to right click within Windows Explorer and check in from there. If you don't want to do that, you can do your check-ins from the TF.EXE command line.

But seriously, if you don't like the automatic check-out, then just turn that off. You have the option of having TFS automatically check out, prompt you for check out, or do nothing and leave the files in a read-only state until you explicitly check them out.

Upvotes: 5

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