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Why does TFS Power Tools 2012 not recognise newly uncloaked project?


I have TFS Power Tools 2012 installed on my PC.

I recently uncloaked a project in TFS and performed a get operation to bring the project folder into my private workspace (using server-side for backwards compatability with VS2010).

Whilst in Visual Studio, there is no problem - I can check it out and check back in.

However, Power Tools does not recognise the new folder in windows explorer. In other words, all other projects have the green-arrow icon overlay, but this one doesn't. Right-clicking on the folder also does not bring up the TFS context menu.

Does anyone know what I may have neglected to do? I have tried deleting the folder and doing a "Get specific..." to bring it back in. Hell, I've even done a repair on TFS Power Tools and restarted; the behaviour remains unchanged.


This is not my problem (the rest of my projects do show the icon overlay)...

Possible duplicate here maybe...


Solution

  • I have noticed Power Tools sometimes has conflicts with icon overlays, particularly when they compete with others (like SVN).

    It can also conflict when you have multiple workspaces on your PC. As you mentioned, make sure the project is uncloaked in both workspaces.