Problems Loading Team Source Control into VS Experimental Hive

Question

Greetings,

 

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to load Team Source Control into Visual Studio's experimental hive. I have it loaded in the regular hive of VS, but when I attempt to load it through Tools -> Options -> Source Control, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is not listed as a plug-in for me to load. I do not have any other possibly conflicting source control systems loaded on my computer, so I know that this is not the issue.

Any idea why I had no problem loading it into the regular hive but cannot do so in the experimental hive? I have some colleagues who have done it successfully through the mechanism I just described, but as I said, this doesn't work for me. I'm at a loss for what to do, and can't continue work on my extensibility VS program until this is resolved.

 

Thanks!

 

Brandon

Answer 1

Hi Brandon,

I'm guessing that you installed TFS after the SDK, in which case the 8.0Exp registry hive, probably doesn't have the additional packages or SCC provider settings.

To fix this, you could try rebuilding the 8.0Exp hive with the VsRegEx.exe utility. The following command line will rebuild the 8.0Exp hive based on the original 8.0 hive. Note, this will require you to reregister any packages you previously built and registered under the experimental hive.

VsRegEx GetOrig 8.0 Exp

 

Sincerely,

Answer 2

Ed,

 

This worked! It seems like VsRegEx.exe is a useful tool that I should be using every once in a while just to make sure that any items I've installed since the default installation are transferred to the experimental hive.

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

Brandon