How do I get my solution in Visual Studio back online in TFS

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I had my solution in Visual Studio 2012  which is under TFS source control  open and the TFS server  2010  was down  When I then made a change to one of the files and attempted to save it I got a prompt to ask whether I wanted to Overwrite the file saying the TFS server was down  can t remember the exact words  and the following message appeared in the Output window   This solution is offline    Team Foundation Server  http   tfs1 8080 tfs server  The solution was offline during its previous session and will remain offline    How do I get the file change to be recognised as being among Pending Changes and the whole solution back online

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One method I did with mine  is to  quot Add to Source Control quot   and select  Git

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You can go use registry editor     Turn off all VS instances  Open registry editor and go to  HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 11 0 TeamFoundation Instances Find proper server e g  team32system1 Go to Collection and nex DefaultCollection  HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 11 0 TeamFoundation Instances team32system1 Collections DefaultCollection Set Offline key to 0 Open solution in VS  Afterwards pop up should appear which question would you like bring solution to online mode

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Rename the solution s corresponding  SUO file  The SUO file contains the TFS status  online offline   amongst a host of other goodies   Do this only if the  right-click on the solution name right at the top of the Solution Explorer and select the Go Online option  fails  because e g  you installed VS2015 preview

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i found another way without much effort   Just simply right click your solution and then click undo pending changes   Next  VS will ask you for acutally changed file where you want to undo or not specific file   In this you can click no for such a file where actual change is happende  rest is just undoing  This will not lost your actual changes

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You will need to do two steps here for a complete solution   First click on the Solution that you have open and then go File-  Source Control -  Go Online  Then uncheck all the files that are being shown as being modified while you were offline    Don t do the Get Latest version from Source Control Explorer  That will result in a dialog  potentially showing a bunch of files asking you to resolve conflicts  Instead  do this  In source Control explorer right click on the folder you want to get latest of and then Advanced - Get Specific Version  In the dropdown for version type choose Latest and then choose the first check box that says Overwrite writable files that are not checked out  This will automatically bring your folder in sync with latest on the server

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Neither of the above solutions worked for me on Visual Studio Community 2017 v15 7 1  Somehow  there was no  Go Online  option in the context menu  I tried registry edit as suggested here  but that only displayed me error that it could not find the binding  What worked for me is rebinding solution to the server from Change Source Control menu    Go to File- gt Source Control- gt Advanced- gt Change Source Control and make sure that your solution is binded to your source control  If not  like mine  then click on bind button  it will automatically search online TFS server and rebind your solution to it

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Go to File  gt  Source Control  gt  Go Online  select the files you changed  and finish the process

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Additional step from solution above for if you are missing the AutoReconnect or Offline registry value    For Visual Studio 2015  Version 14   Turn off all VS instances HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 14 0 TeamFoundation Instances YourServerName  Collections TheCollectionName   To get to this directory on Windows  hit the Windows   R key and search for  regedit   Set both the Offline and AutoReconnect values to 0  If you are missing one of those attributes  in my case I was missing AutoReconnect   right click and and create a new DWORD 32-bit  value with the desired missing name  AutoReconnect or Offline   Again  make sure both values are set to zero   Restart your solution   Additional info   blog MSDN - When and how does my solution go offline

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I am using Visual Studio 2017 15 4 0 version  Especially when i started use lightweight solution option  this offline thing happened to me  I tried to above solutions which are    Tried to regedit option but can not see appropriate menu options  Didn t work  Right click on solution  there is go online option and when i choose it that gives this error message   The solution is offline because its associated Team Foundation Server is offline  Unable to determine the workspace for this solution     Then from File -  Source Control -  Advanced -  Change Source Control  I saw my files  I select them and then chose bind option  That worked for me

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I searched for the solution online and found this solution but wasn t too keen on the registry change   I found a better way  right-click on the solution name right at the top of the Solution Explorer and select the Go Online option  Clicking this allowed me to select the files that had been changed when I was offline and make the solution online again   After finding the solution  I found the following msdn forum thread which confirmed the above

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