"Pending checkins" window stuck; never finishes updating

Question

I'm having a strange problem in Visual Studio 2008 where my "Pending Checkins" window never updates. I open it up, and it says "Updating..." like usual, but I never see the "X remaining" message, and nothing happens. It just sits there doing nothing.

Checked-out stuff still shows as checked out in Solution Explorer. SourceSafe 2005 still works like normal.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hooray! I found a solution. For anyone else that stumbles across this, here's the deal.

I discovered today that the Pending Checkins window wasn't broken for all solutions, but only for a particular one. Also, though I didn't realize it was related, every time I opened the solution, I was getting:

"Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read."

The solution I found was here. It turns out that I had two

GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) = preSolution

sections in the solution (.sln) file. I deleted the second one (which had a long list of projects, but also some gibberish in it), and the message went away, and my Pending Checkins window now works perfectly.