ERROR: Refreshing the project failed.

TheJet · Post by **TheJet** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:36 am

Hi,
I have recently started to receive the following error from our Vault client:

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|Microsoft Development Environment   |
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| Refreshing the project failed.  Unable to retrieve folder information from the server. |
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This is happening consistently with one of the web projects in our solution [3 VB.NET class library projects, 1 C# windows app, 2 web projects]. All other projects are retrieved successfully, but this particular web project fails. I have successfully had an equivalent setup on a previous set of projects without issue. The only difference between this solution and the working one is that multiple people are now working on the non-working solution.

Has anyone seen this and are there any workarounds? What appears to be happening [from my rather limited troubleshooting] is that the source control binding is not being saved correctly for the non-working project, no matter how many times the information is reset to be correct.

All clients and the server are running version 2.0.3.

Thanks!
Ben

dan · Post by **dan** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:20 am

Does the GUI client report the working folder to be in the location that the IDE thinks it should be at? Sometimes the IDE will set a working folder to somplace that you didn't expect, and the GUI client will tell you where it is set to.

Also, check the mssccprj.scc file in the working folder - it contains the association between the working folder and the repository folder that the IDE uses to bind, and make sure it is what you expect. You can edit this file to be correct if it isn't.

TheJet · Post by **TheJet** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:21 am

OK,
Well, in answer to myself, I cleared out the VSWebCache for the offending project and now everything seems to be working properly again.

Ben

churlish · Post by **churlish** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:54 am

More generally (in VS 2003, at least) I was able to solve the problem by clearing out the contents of the directory specified here:

Tools | Options... | Projects | Web Settings | Location of Web Project Cache (textbox)

Check this first if clearing out (drive):\\Documents and Settings\(username)\VSWebCache doesn't work.