4.0.5 question

gmagana · Post by **gmagana** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:55 am

I don;t actually know if this is specific to 4.0.5, but it seems that it is hard to update the icons when the status of a file changes... For example, if I have a file whose status is "needs merge," I can see the icon there... If I do a merge and resolve it, it seems that it takes a very long time to update the icon to "modified." There is a "refresh" element on the solution's right click menu, but it seems to not refresh these icons...

Also, if there is a file status icon on a file, for example when the file is in the project, but not on the disk, VS puts an icon on the file that signals there is a problem. If the problem is resolved (ie, get the file from Vault/Fortress), that "error" icon does not go away until the solution is re-opened.

If there a way to fix this? One of the things I really miss from the VS2003 client is the "source control" menu bar, one of the elements in it did an update on the icons (ie, refresh source control status) upon demand.

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:12 pm

Good questions. In short, these issues are on our radar and will be fixed. We intend to add a "Refresh Source Control Status" command so you can simply force a full update. The most common automatic status icon updates are working nicely, but you've identified both of the known scenarios that we know are not:

1. After resolving a merge
2. After retrieving a file that was missing from a project

Fixing these involves a somewhat significant change to the way we do icon updates in general, so the fix is a few months off. I know it's annoying, but hopefully it helps that it's only a display bug: there's no incorrect underlying status data.

gmagana · Post by **gmagana** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:16 pm

Cool, thanks