Bug with Vs2005 and vault

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:58 am

I open vs2005 and choose...

Source control -> Open from source control.

i then login and the tree dialog appears and i choose my web project.

it then tells me that the directory doesnt exist - would i like to create it?

i choose yes and i get the same error with every project....

'An error occured while accessing the source control system.'
Check your solution's source control bindings.

This has not happened before today and the error isnt exactly giving lots of clues.

How am i supposed to access my source code???????????

GuyH · Post by **GuyH** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:02 am

well looks like i got it to work by chance...

instead of using 'open from source control'

i chose File, Open website (dialog opens)

then hit the source control option, logged in and it got all my files.

maybe it should work the other way too seeing as though it was a viable option in vss??????????????????????????

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:10 am

If you're opening a website from source control with VS 2005, then the proper way to do it is with File->Open Website->Source Control.

Microsoft changed this in VS 2005.

Also note: you only need to open from source control the first time you retrieve a project from the repository.

After it's already on your local machine, just open the project normally. It will already be bound to source control and will connect to Vault as needed to get and checkout files, etc.