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Blue question mark on files in solution explorer

I often get blue question marks on files in my VS2012 Solution Explorer when opening a solution bound to Perforce through P4VS.

Looks like something is having trouble to "synchronize" with the depot/workspace/whatnot. Hitting "Refresh View" always solves the issue but I'm growing tired on doing this everyday:

Screenshot

This is my VS version:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012
Version 11.0.61030.00 Update 4

And P4VS:

2014.1.85.4506

This is persistent across P4VS versions for a few months now, and seems to be affecting sometimes individual files, sometimes entire projects, with no apparent pattern.

How can I diagnose what's going wrong, be it a server issue, a VS issue, a workspace issue?... The Perforce Source Control output shows nothing special.

Actually it's not entire folders, it's entire projects. It appears that even if refreshing a project "fixes" the issue for one run, re-opening the solution brings it back. Whereas I think that for individual files, refreshing them solves the issue once and for all. I'll play with it a bit more to confirm that.

Solution

  • This "solved" the issue for me, at least for the entire projects that went blue-question-marked:

    1) Tools > Options

    2) Source Control

    3) Perforce - General

    4) Tick the option "Treat Solution/Project as directory when selected"

    Not sure why but that's one less annoyance for me every day. Thanks to Perforce support for suggesting that.