Compare with Latest version seems clear. It compares files against the latest version in TFS. So you’ll get all the differences between the very latest version checked into source control and whichever folder you’re comparing against. Compare with Workspace version might be confusing, but is actually pretty simple. TFS keeps track of the version of … Read more
They show lines that you have changed. See here for more details and a table showing what the different colours mean: +———–+——————————+————————-+ | Marker | Different from | Different from file | | colour | file saved on disk? | that was opened? | +———–+——————————+————————-+ | Nothing | No | No | | Yellow | … Read more
In order to obtain a better performance in Visual Studio 2017, some kind of Performance Tweaks can be applied as shown below: Set Current source control … to None under Tools → Options → Source Control Uncheck Synchronized settings across … option under Tools → Options → Environment → Synchronized Settings (for some versions: Tools … Read more
I have Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and 2015 all installed on my machine. After installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, I started getting the “package did not load correctly” error in VS 2013. All I did to get it working was to follow this step: Close all instances of Visual Studio Delete everything in this folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache Restart Visual … Read more
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According to this thread: Posted by Microsoft on 10/13/2009 at 4:33 PM Hi all, Thank you for your continued interest in this bug. We have been able to reproduce the issue intermittently in several versions of Visual Studio running on several versions of Windows and have identified the root cause as external to VS. The … Read more
For Visual Studio 2012 and later, this setting has moved to the “Tabs and Windows” section. Updated directions are: Click on the “Tools” menu, and select “Options”. Under the “Environment” heading in the listbox on the left, click on the “Tabs and Windows” item. Check the box labelled “Insert new tabs to the right of … Read more
Speaking for SymbolSource, I believe that the best practice is to: Push release binary+content packages to nuget.org only (or any other production feed) Push debug binary+content packages to a development feed: on-premise on myget.org on nuget.org as pre-release packages. Push both release and debug binary+symbols packages to symbolsource.org or any other symbol store. While we’re … Read more
Go to Manage Workspaces (either through the File/Source Control menu or the workspace drop down in Source Control Explorer) select edit for your workspace. You should see, under working folders, a mapping for the source control directory to the old/wrong project directory. Select it and click remove. Close VS and delete the suo file. It … Read more
I had the same problem migrating from VS2013 recently. As Josh noted in his comment here Visual Studio 2015 ships with an older version of Node. In case you don’t want to get stuck with whatever version of Node is built into Visual Studio, you can tell it to use the version you have already … Read more