Work Items, Pull Requests menu not visible in Visual Studio

Question

I'm using VSTS and Visual Studio enterprise on two different machines (both VS2015U3 on Win10). The project has a git-repository. On one machine I do have all expected menu's (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/connect/work-team-explorer ) on the other some (pull requests, work items) are missing. On both machines editing code and commiting/synching works fine.

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

The reason is that you just connect to the local git repository and it likes this:

You configured Remotes (Home=>Settings=>Repository Settings=>Remotes), so you can commit and sync.

Refer to these steps to connect to the remote repository.

1. Go to Team Explorer
2. Click Manage connections=>Connect to Team project
3. After that Open Solution in Solutions section (if it is empty, you need to clone this repository)

Answer 2

I had the same issue. It was resolved by re-connecting to the tfs-server. on VS 2017 Team Explorer go to 'Manage Connections' and 'Add Server'.

Answer 3

Steps using VS (Visual Studio) 2019:

1. Manage Connections > Connect to a Project...
2. Expand server, and project to find the repo you want, then
3. If it is already cloned, "Connect" should be the default option - click it!

And why Microsoft doesn't just auto-magically do this bewilders me! I could sync and all, but no Pull-request until I jump through this little connect to the server/project/repo steps..