KB952043: In Visual Studio a SourceSafe Get returns Unexpected error encountered on Line number: 5907

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In Visual Studio a SourceSafe Get returns Unexpected error encountered on Line number: 5907

Action

Closing and re-opening Visual Studio 2005 solution containing web projects under SourceSafe control.

Result

Some files appear as new even though they been in SourceSafe for a long time – they show up with a yellow plus icon.

Attempting to do a SourceSafe get get latest on the project:

Unexpected error encountered. It is recommend you restart the application as soon as possible.
Error: Unspecified error.
File: vsee\pkgs\vssprovider\cmsscciabstractionlayer.cpp
Line number: 5907

Attempting to rebind the project:

Unexpected error encountered. It is recommend you restart the application as soon as possible.

Error: Unspecified error.
File: vsee\lib\path\cvapipath.cpp
Line number: 2459

Answer 1

Cause

Line 5907 is "Project must be available"

Line 2459 is “Can't unrelativize a non-relative path”

-For websites, something wrong happening with the suo file, and translation map gets incorrect
- For webapp projects, a stale file or setting in solution or in vspscc file that causes the webapp to be treated like website, with enlistment, etc.

Resolution

Open from Source Control from within Visual Studio into a different working location and create new web enlistments if necessary, so stale files won’t be used.

Open solution

- Use ChangeScc dialog to unbind the websites from scc, Ok ChangeScc dialog (this allows scci to clean up the messed up scc sections in suo and sln)

- Remove the websites from the solution

- Make sure the nodes in IIS like <http://localhost/MyInfo (http://localhost/MyInfo)> point to the correct version of the website on local disk (2.1/2.2/2.3). If it points to the wrong version, fix the Virtual folders mapping.

- Add the websites back, using File/Add/ExistingWebsite/LocalIIS, select the nodes in <http://localhost/ (http://localhost/)> (this allows web projects to write their relative locations correctly, if that's messed up)

- Use ChangeScc dialog to bind back the websites to the correct folders in the VSS database

- Checkin the changes to the solution file.

More Information

A relative path reference is used in the bad Solution along with references to the pre-branched local directory 2.1 instead of 2.3.

***** good.sln
                SccProjectUniqueName1 = MyInfoLib\\MyInfoLib.vbproj
                SccProjectName1 = \u0022$/MY\u0020EI\u0020ACCOUNT/2.3/Development/project/MyInfoLib\u0022,\u0020NTGAAAAA
                SccLocalPath1 = MyInfoLib
                SccWebProject2 = true
***** BAD.SLN
                SccProjectUniqueName1 = MyInfoLib\\MyInfoLib.vbproj
                SccLocalPath1 = .
                SccProjectFilePathRelativizedFromConnection1 = MyInfoLib\                SccWebProject2 = true



***** good.sln
                SccProjectName4 = \u0022$/MY\u0020EI\u0020ACCOUNT/2.3/Development/MyInfoServices\u0022,\u0020QIHAAAAA
                SccLocalPath4 = C:\\_Project\\MY\u0020EI\u0020ACCOUNT\\2.3\\Development\\project\\MyInfoServices
                SccProjectEnlistmentChoice4 = 2
***** BAD.SLN
                SccProjectName4 = \u0022$/MY\u0020EI\u0020ACCOUNT/2.3/Development/MyInfoServices\u0022,\u0020QIHAAAAA
                SccLocalPath4 = C:\\_project\\My\u0020EI\u0020Account\\2.1\\Development\\project\\MyInfoServices

Also in the good SLN the Guid identifiers have been updated.

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