Visual Studio 2008 Save File As Dialog Intermittent Release

Question

Me and some of my colleagues are experiencing a strange problem in Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7 (64-bit). We use VSS6 for our source control (unfortunately).

We have a problem when we make changes to the extracted file, resulting in the file being extracted as expected. But when we are going to build a project or try to save a file, it often (but not always) asks us to save the file as dialog, as if VS believes that the file is registered (and therefore has a read-only flag).

However, all we need to do is cancel the dialog and save or build again, and it will always work a second time without requesting a save dialog. Or we can continue with saving, leaving the name the same, and it will work. As if the version control status in VS2008 did not reach VSS (even though VS2008 was the application that checked the file).

This is similar to a discussion of this thread , but it is not a permission issue or running as an administrator, 1) because it resolves itself in the second attempt and 2) we are already starting VS as an administrator.

Thanks in advance.

Jerad

Answer 1

I had problems with Windows 7 and SCM (even with SVN) - an automatic indexing feature. Make sure you turn it off for folders containing source code. I have no evidence that it causes problems for VSS, but it seems as fragile as VSS, since it is enabled, it will almost certainly be problematic.

By the way, did you know that working in a company using VSS is the basis for avoiding StackOverflow forever, right?