Howto resolve... Visual Studio Source Control notification "Projects have recently been added to this solution"

Question

After some use Visual Studio 2008 when opening a solution that is checked into Visual Studio Team Foundation will pop up a dialog saying:

Projects have recently been added to this solution. Do you want to get them from source control?

This happens every time the solution is loaded (even if no projects have been added). The only way I have found to remove this minor annoyance is to completely rebuild the SLN file.

Has anyone found a better/simpler way?

Answer 1

I had this recently after we moved a number of projects in the solution. I worked out eventually, that each project actual appears in solution file multiple times each with path information! So even though the path in the main reference of the project was correct it was wrong further down the file.

So go through the .sln file and make sure the paths in all the references of each project is correct.

For instance, the first reference for one of my projects is:

Project("{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}") = "ObexPushVB", "Samples\ObjectPush\ObexPushVB\ObexPushVB.vbproj", "{E3692A59-D636-48E8-9B57-7DA80A88E517}" EndProject 

In my case the path there was correctly updated. But then we have also for that project:

SccProjectUniqueName8 = Samples\\ObjectPush\\ObexPushVB\\ObexPushVB.vbproj SccProjectTopLevelParentUniqueName8 = InTheHand.Net.Personal.sln SccProjectName8 = Samples/ObjectPush/ObexPushVB SccLocalPath8 = Samples\\ObjectPush\\ObexPushVB 

So all of those paths needed to be updated too! After I fixed that manually all was well. (The sample there is after the fix BTW).