Source Control Explorer Workspace Dropdown does not open

Question

I recently installed VS2008 Pro on Win 7-64 and then installed the Team Explorer.  I am able to connect to our projects in the team explorer window of VS and able to open project from source control via the File menu, but the workspace dropdown will not open so that I can change my project destinations.  It also seems that all the buttons on the toolbar of the source control explorer do not allow me to click them even though they are not greyed out.  It does allow me to expand projects within the project tree.

I have a second machine that is the same setup except that it is on Win7-32 and it works fine with the same credentials.  I am guessing this is a configuration problem, but I'm not sure where to look.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Answer 1

Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> ensure your plugin is set to TFS

Answer 2

Yes, the plugin is TFS.  If I didn't set that I wouldn't be able to do any opterations.  But thank for the suggestion.  The basic things we often miss.

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Answer 3

I've never had issues with 64-bit OS.  My next guess is a busted installation.  Try closing all VS windows and running devenv /resetuserdata.  

If that doesn't work, I would:

1) uninstall Team Explorer ("tfc" folder on the TFS disc)

2) reinstall Team Explorer

3) reinstall VS SP1

Answer 4

Not sure how, but this morning it just started work.  I would much rather that I had done something intentionally to fix it.  The machine hasn't been rebooted and I didn't get time to try the last set of suggestions, although I think I did the equivalent through the UI before posting this thread.  Thank you for the suggestions.

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Answer 5

I was facing the same issue. Your suggestion of running dev /resetuserdata worked. Thank you.

I also had to delete the old ..Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache\VersionControl.config.