vs.net 2003 grief

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erichar11
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# Posted on: 19-Feb-2005 03:40:50   

Ok, so did some work rearranging projects in a solution to point to the correct directory. Was working great yesturday. Today, I get home, fire up vs.net and 2 of the projects in my solution I get an error: Can't retreive folder information from the server. So used Google to find out what the resolution to the error message is. Deteremined that one needs to delete the vswebchache so did that. No joy, I still am unable to add 2 projects to my solution that were there yesturday. Anyone out there have any suggestions, I've already wasted a couple of hours trying to resolve this and it's really annoying. I'm dying here, so any insight appreciated.

Thanks.

By the way, I'm using subversion for source control and one article mentioned the use of "." causing problems with vs.net. Since svn stored info in the .svn folder, was wondering if this is the problem. The other projects that work correctly also have .svn folders so I'm not sure if that's the problem.

cmartinbot
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# Posted on: 19-Feb-2005 04:21:30   

I've had this problem in the past. SVN will create .svn folder by default and apparently folders prefixed with '.' are a big no-no with web projects in VS.NET 2003.

Don't worry though. There is a special build of TortoiseSVN that will create _svn folders instead. You can get it at TortoiseSVN.tigris.org.

You'll have to remove the existing .svn folders and check out your projects again. After that, you'll be golden.

Chris

erichar11
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# Posted on: 19-Feb-2005 06:01:45   

thanks cmartinbot, yeah I finally figured it out. What a PIA. The solution was relatively easy, it was figuring out the problem that took awhile (Googling for the last two hours rage ). I hope MS fixes this in their next release of vs.net.