How do I solve error message "an error occurred registering this project with source control" when loading a project retrieved from a TFS server?

Question

the full error message is:

"The Project 'my.project.name' is under source control. An error occurred registering this project with source control. It is recommended that you do not make any changes to this project."

It seems that I can make the error message go away, and load the project correctly by opening the csproj file, and remove all nodes with names starting with "scc" - however, then I have to confirm wanting to use the solution Source control settings every time I open the solution.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Please open the *.csproj file of your project then replace the following tags:

<SccProjectName>SAK</SccProjectName> <SccLocalPath>SAK</SccLocalPath> <SccAuxPath>SAK</SccAuxPath> <SccProvider>SAK</SccProvider> 

With

<SccProjectName> </SccProjectName> <SccLocalPath> </SccLocalPath> <SccAuxPath> </SccAuxPath> <SccProvider> </SccProvider> 

Close the solution, close VS, reopen VS and then your problem will be resolved.

Answer 2

The problem is with the *.csproj.user and if you have source control with the *.csproj.vspscc (in VS2012). Delete both, close the solution, close VS, reopen VS using the Run As (preferably administrator) and it should be fine.