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Rainer - 29 Mar 2006 07:51 GMT

Normally when starting my solution, I get a window, that askes me, if I want
to get all files, because I checked "Get everything when opening a solution"
in the settings. Since some days, I can't see that window anymore, BUT it is
still there. Because when starting the solution after some time, nothing is
happening. If I press enter (I guess I press OK on the invisible form) then
the loading of the solution works as it should.

Again I have to say, VSS is a very buggy software.

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Alin Constantin [MSFT] - 30 Mar 2006 05:48 GMT

That "invisible form" is a modal dialog which is displayed by VisualStudio,
not by VSS. It cannot be invisible (if a modal dialog is specifically made
invisible it doesn't even accept input, so Enter key shouldn't have worked)

What may have happened though is that VS might have saved a position on
screen for that dialog which may now be outside-of-screen (if you changed
the screen resolution or re-arranged monitors in dual-monitor config), and
VS tries to display the dialog using the position saved in registry.

Try deleting the GetVersionDialogPosition value under the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\SourceControl key
and delete the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\SourceControl\GetVersionDialog
key, and see if that fixes the problem.
Otherwise, I'd check for other windows that may be opened behind
VisualStudio (try minimizing VS).

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> Normally when starting my solution, I get a window, that askes me, if I
> want
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> Again I have to say, VSS is a very buggy software.

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Rainer - 30 Mar 2006 06:43 GMT

Hi,

I know what a modal dialog is and what it should do, but this one does not.
Deleting the registry key didn't solve the problem. I also didn't changed the
resolution and there is no other window to which I can switch and minimize VS
also doesn't help. I already tried that stuff. I watched now carefully, and
when opening the solution, for a fraction of a second I can see the borders
of that dialog (exactly where it was at the time when it worked), so the
dialog is there but simply not visible. Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Rainer.

> That "invisible form" is a modal dialog which is displayed by VisualStudio,
> not by VSS. It cannot be invisible (if a modal dialog is specifically made
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> > Again I have to say, VSS is a very buggy software.

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Alin Constantin [MSFT] - 30 Mar 2006 11:00 GMT

Hi Rainer,

That's weird.
Things I'd try could be:
- open the Get dialog normally, after the solution completes opening, and
close it with Ok. Perhaps it will save in registry a window position that
will make it appear next time on solution open
- close other toolwindows that are not necessary, restart the IDE. If the
position saved by scci in registry is not the one causing the problem, it
could be something wrong in the window management code in the IDE, so
perhaps closing unnecessary toolwindows could bring the Get dialog back.
- if it still doesn't work, I'd try to use a tool like Spy++ or Wincheat
(http://www.alinconstantin.net/download/wincheat) to search the dialog
(class #32770, called "Get") and see if it's visible, who is the parent
window, what is the dialog position, etc, hopefully it wil provide more info
to debug this.
- otherwise, as a workaround you can uncheck "Get everything when opening a
solution", and open manually the Get dialog for the solution node in
SolutionExplorer after the solution has open (or using
Tools/Configure/Commands you can set a shortcut to
File/GetAllFilesInSolution to make things easier to open that dialog
populated with all the files in solution)

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