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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / IDE / August 2007Pending Checkins Tab not populate on launch
Every time I launch VS2005, I need to select "View" - "Pending Checkins" as the tab isn't populate. The tab is there as it should be but just a very narrow tab with just the icon and not he words "Pending Checkins". As soon as I select it from the menu, it goes through the process of loading the tab and all is fine. I've tried resaving preferences multiple times with no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated --- it's one of those things that's so easy to deal with it's taken me this long to even bother writing a post, but it is annoying. Hello Matt, According to your description, you are experiencing an issue that "Pending Checkins" window doesn't display correctly in VS 2005 IDE. "Pending checkins" window only shows as very narrow tab with just the icon and no word "Pending Checkins". Re-opening the window (Select-"View"-"Pending Checkins") could resolve the issue. Please let me know if I misunderstand anything here. The issue sounds strange. I haven't met such issue before. In general, we would like to suggest you install VS 2005 SP1. Have you installed it so far? If this is not the key to the issue, please check the following points. 1) Based on my experience, such issue could be caused by 3rd party add-ins. Have your VS.NET 2005 IDE installed any third-party's add-ins? 2) If 3rd party add-ins is not the root cause on this issue, I'd like to recommend you try devenv.exe /resetsettings in command line. This command restores Visual Studio default settings. At last, if the issue still persists, I wrote a Marco to display "Pending Checkins" window each time VS 2005 starts up. You may paste the following code into EnvironmentEvents in Macro Explorer. Private Sub DTEEvents_OnStartupComplete() Handles DTEEvents.OnStartupComplete DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.PendingCheckins") DTE.Windows.Item("{53544C4D-5C18-11D3-AB71-0050040AE094}").Activate() 'Pending Checkins End Sub Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any more concern.We are glad to assist you. Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. WenYuan Wang, I do have SP1 installed (have since first day released). Tried the command line param you suggested - no benefit. I'm certainly willing to try to macro you suggested below, but could you give a little more detail than paste into macro explorer? I've never used macros in VS before. Dear Matt, Thanks for your reply. I have tried Andrew's suggestion. I open the VS IDE by double-clicking a solution File. But the issue doesn't show up. Again. I created a shortcut to the solution, clicked the shortcut to open the VS 2005. However, I still cannot repro the issue.... For the Marcos, the following step could used for executing View.PendingCheckins each time VS stars up. Please try it. Let me know if you have anything unclear. We are glad to assist you. 1) In VS 2005 IDE, please click [Tools|Macros|Macros IDE] There will be "Microsoft Visual Studio Macros" ide 2) In Microsoft Visual Studio Macros, please Double-Click "MyMacros" 3) Double-Click EnviromentEvents 4) Paste the following code in EnvironmentEvents Module Private Sub DTEEvents_OnStartupComplete() Handles DTEEvents.OnStartupComplete DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.PendingCheckins") DTE.Windows.Item("{53544C4D-5C18-11D3-AB71-0050040AE094}").Activate() 'Pending Checkins End Sub The code will look as blew: ======================================================================= Option Strict Off Option Explicit Off Imports System Imports EnvDTE Imports EnvDTE80 Imports System.Diagnostics Public Module EnvironmentEvents "Automatically generated code, do not modify" Private Sub DTEEvents_OnStartupComplete() Handles DTEEvents.OnStartupComplete DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.PendingCheckins") DTE.Windows.Item("{53544C4D-5C18-11D3-AB71-0050040AE094}").Activate() 'Pending Checkins End Sub End Module ======================================================================== 5) Close Microsoft Visual Studio Macros IDE 6) Restart your VS 2005 IDE. Hope this helps. Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thanks for the instructions. The steps to load get the macro running worked to a certain extent. Each time I loaded the Macro IDE, I was getting a messagebox stating that the samples.vsmacros file was invalid or inaccessible. I looked in the path the message referenced and the folder was there, but no .vsmacros file. This same message was coming up each time I launched VS --- so I googled around a bit and found instructions on how to remove the samples macro project here: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/37/186297.aspx That solved the problem and now my pending checkins open as they should. A couple of things to note here: 1: Am I "missing out" on anything without that samples.vsmacros? How do I re-install it? 2: Is it possible that missing file is part of the problem in getting the pending checkins tab to populate? 3: When testing the issue on your end, are you using a large solution? I'm using VS2005, SP1 - Source safe edition is 2005. My solution contains 8 projects - 4 class projects, 1 windows project, 1 database project, 2 setup projects. I also have 2 solution folders. When the pending checkins tab loads, it states it's processing approximately 600 files and counts down rapidly until all is loaded (takes about 4 seconds or so) Thanks. Hello Matt Thanks for your reply. >1: Am I "missing out" on anything without that samples.vsmacros? How do I re-install it? .vsmacros is a macro project. By default, VS 2005 load the sample macro from "<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\VSMacros80\Samples\Samples.vsmacros". If there is no samples.vsmacros file, the error message will be thrown. To re-install it, you can copy the original version of sample.vsmacros file from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\samples.vsmacros" to your local profile folder "<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\VSMacros80\Samples\Samples.vsmacros", and then load the project again by [Tools|Macros|Load Macro Project] in VS 2005 IDE. a) copy "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\samples.vsmacros" to your local profile "<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\VSMacros80\Samples\Samples.vsmacros"" b) Start VS 2005 IDE c) Click Tools|Macros|Load Macro Project d) Choose "<User>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\VSMacros80\Samples\Samples.vsmacros" e) Samples Macro project will be load into VS 2005 Macro IDE. >2: Is it possible that missing file is part of the problem in getting the pending checkins tab to populate? I think it is not related to the sample macro project. I unload sample macro project, and then try to repro the issue. The "pending checkins" window works fine. >3: When testing the issue on your end, are you using a large solution? I'm using VS2005, SP1 - Source safe edition is 2005. My solution contains 8 projects - 4 class projects, 1 windows project, 1 database project, 2 setup projects. I also have 2 solution folders. When the pending checkins tab loads, it states it's processing approximately 600 files and counts down rapidly until all is loaded (takes about 4 seconds or so) I created a new solution (which includes 4 class projects (about 500 classes), 1 windows project, 1 database project, 2 setup projects, 2 solution folders), added the whole solution to source control (VSS 2005) by VS IDE. But, I still cannot repro the issue. "Pending checkins" window works fine on my side. If you have concern on this issue very much, we suggest you may contact Microsoft CSS directly. The CSS engineer will connect to your machine and perform on-site debug. However, according to Newsgroup policy, we cannot provide such service. If the problem is confirmed to be a product bug, the case charge will be free. You can check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers. Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is anything we can help with, I'm glad to assist you. Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. With the macro that you've helped me with, it provided the functionality that I need, so there isn't any beneifit to me pursuing further. Only reason I offered additional info was in case it was of use to you. Thanks for your help - it's performing as I need it to. Thanks for your reply, Matt. This is great news that the macros helps on your case. Please let me know if you meet any other issue in VS IDE next time. It's my pleasure to assist you. Have a nice day. Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Matt F" <mfielderREMOVECAPS@nospam.nospam> wrote... > Every time I launch VS2005, I need to select "View" - "Pending Checkins" > as the tab isn't populate. The tab is there as it should be but just a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > so easy to deal with it's taken me this long to even bother writing a > post, but it is annoying. This was reported this during the beta of VS 2005 years ago, and then I experienced it again with the gold version. Can't remember if I've seen it since upgrading to SP1. In my case it seemed to stop happening randomly one day, and at that time was only triggered by double-clicking a solution file - opening VS first and then opening a project didn't show the problem. Microsoft has never acknowledged fixing it anyway... but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who experienced it. https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID =113036 https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID =218040 -- Andy Andrew, You're right. If I open VS first and then open the solution, the problem doesn't present itself, it's only when opening the solution directly. Actually, in my case, it's when using a shortcut to a solution. I keep shortcuts to the solutions I'm most often working on on my desktop. BTW: I do have SP1 installed - installed first day it was released actually. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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