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Rod
Rod

Reputation: 4471

Is it possible to open a project with Visual Studio from different machines?

Earlier I asked a question, which has now been deleted. It was asked me of to come up with some different wording to my question. I'm sorry, but in this case I don't know how better to ask it then I have. Here's what I said:

At work I've got a desktop with Windows 10 on it. Been working there for 3 years. We using TFS 2015 with TFVC. Recently I was given a laptop, but without enough disk space, so what I have done is on the laptop I mapped a drive to the second drive on my desktop, where I keep all of the Visual Studio projects I work on, that are in TFS. I had hoped I could just open the project on the mapped drive from the laptop to the D: drive on the desktop. But VS complained to me. So, is it not possible to open the same project, on only 1 machine, but being accessed both on the machine and by a mapped drive from another machine?

Perhaps it would be best if I illustrated. On my desktop I have a project in my D: drive, so it's located in D:\Src\LRAT. Its in TFS 2015 and we're using TFVC on-premise.

On my laptop I've mapped the drive from the desktop, using D: on the laptop, as D was available. So, I get into VS 2017 on the laptop and try to open the project in D:\Src\LRAT on my laptop. However, trying to do that results in a warning message issued from Visual Studio (the complaint I mentioned earlier) which says:

Team Foundation Server Version Control

The solution you are opening is bound to source control on the following Team Foundation Server: http://ourserver:8080/tfs/defaultcollection. Would you like to contact this server to try and enable source control integration?

This confuses me a lot! I know that its in source control. Why is it asking me if I want it in source control? I want to be able to open it and use TFS/TFVC from my laptop against the same files and folders that are on my desktop. The dialog box that warning pops up in has 3 buttons, Yes No and Help. Clicking Help sends me to a very unhelpful link about Git and VSTS. I don't know what will happen if I click the Yes button, because that project on my desktop is already in source control, so I just click No because I don't know what else to do.

So, this leads to ask is it the case that in some way I don't yet understand opening a project created in VS 2017 and saved to TFS under TFVC on my desktop is different than opening that same project from my laptop connected to the D: drive on my desktop?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51143

The solution you are opening is bound to source control on the following Team Foundation Server: http://ourserver:8080/tfs/defaultcollection. Would you like to contact this server to try and enable source control integration?`

This kind of pop-up info, usually indicate there are some mapping issue related. Please double check your workspace mapping first.

Besides you could also try to connect your project in Team Explorer -Visual Studio follow below steps:

1 View->'Team Explorer'

2 'Manage Connections' (green plug)

3 'Manage Connections' (drop down) -> 'Connect to Team Project'

4 List of projects shows up from your account.

5 Select Project and Connect

More details take a look at this similar issue-- Opening an existing VS2015 solution bound to TFS hangs VS2017RC

Upvotes: 1

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