Eclipse Import and Windows Shell Extension Power Tool

Question

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post an issue with the power tools but it only occurs when using eclipse. It looks like the windows shell extension in the Power Tools is not refreshing correctly when a project is imported through the eclipse client. The only way I have been able have the explorer window recognize that the folder is mapped to TFS is to restart windows or map a new folder using visual studio. Visual Studio seems to do something extra to refresh the explorer window for it to recognize the folder as a TFS mapped folder.

Answer 1

Hi Nole,

Sorry about this one.  This is a known issue because the Eclipse stuff uses a different and totally seperate store locally to cache the TFS workspace details, where-as the power-tools makes use of the .NET API and is therefore aware of anything that happens in Visual Studio or a .NET based client.

We've a story on our backlog to look at this to see if we can improve the situation on Windows platforms.  I'll bump up the priority on it a bit based on your feedback.

Regards,

Martin.

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