"LehrSJ" wrote:

> Thanks but this still doesn't work as I expect it would. As another example,
> say there is an ASP.net web site that has been added to TFS source control.
> I need to work on this web site. I go into Source control, setup my local
> workspace, and get the latest version of the files. The files download to my
> local workstation.
>
> From Visual Studio I can then select File, Open, Web site and point to my
> local downloaded files. I can then run from my local files. However to
> check out any of these web files I have to go to the Source Control Explorer
> screen to check out a file. I can't check out a file from Solution Explorer.
> In order to do this I have to "add web site to source control" from solution
> explorer. (right click on web site root, and this is an option.) But if I
> try to "add" the web site to source contol, it tells me the files are already
> in source control and that I would need to put them in a different directory.
> But if I put the files in a different directory on source control, we then
> have two copies of the web instead of one.
>
> That's what doesn't make sense. If I create a new web and add it to source
> control it works fine. I can check files in and out from Solution explorer.
> It is integrated. But then if someone else then needs to work on this web
> they can create a local workspace and download the files. But they have to
> use Source Control Explorer to check files in and out. They can't do this
> directly from Solution Explorer.
> --
> LehrSJ
>
>
> "Stevanich" wrote:
>
> > LehrSJ,
> >
> > Someone new needs to go into Visual Studio and select File >> 'Open from
> > Source Control' to open the project.
> >
> > As far as project locations go, each developer should be checking out files
> > to their own local workspace.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> >
> > Steve - dotneticated.com
> >
> > "LehrSJ" <lehr524@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:F260193F-4BE0-4930-A54E-8EDE18EB81BE@microsoft.com...
> > >I am using TFS for source control. In Visual Studio I can setup a
> > >Reporting
> > > Services project and add it to source control. If my project is called
> > > Reports I can see the source control files Reports.rptproj,
> > > Reorts.rptproj.vspscc, Reports.sln, and Reports.vssscc are added to the
> > > TFS
> > > folders. I can add report .RDL files, datasources and easily check them
> > > in
> > > and out. But what I don't understand is how does another user also setup
> > > a
> > > Report project that points to this same location so he can also work on
> > > the
> > > same reports and check them in and out?
> > >
> > > If someone else now goes into Visual studio and creates a new Reporting
> > > Services project called reports and tries to point it to the same place in
> > > TFS, an error message is displayed that the item Reports.sln is already
> > > under
> > > source control and to use a different folder for the project. But if a
> > > different folder is selected, then this project is not going to see the
> > > reports under the Reports project.
> > >
> > > I am confused. How does more than one person set up a project and use
> > > source control and have it point to the same project in TFS source
> > > control?
> > > --
> > > LehrSJ
> >
> >