The good news is, it's a much better experience in VS2008. http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/matiaswoloski/archive/2007/07/29/Offline-support-on-Visual-Studio-2008-source-control.aspx
For the moment: John Robbin's approach may help you. He has an MSBuild task that removes SCC bindings from the projects / solutions. http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2006/12/26/working-offline-with-tfs.aspx He is dealing with the same problem you describe: However, nothing is worse than opening up a project when you don't have your connection to TFS and getting those three dialogs telling you in order: 1) VS can't find your TFS server, 2) the solution is under version control but its binding information can't be found, and 3) the ultra scary dialog with the option to temporarily work uncontrolled (which sounds kind of like a negative Zen thing) or potentially mess up your project by removing the bindings permanently. I really wish VS would be a bit smarter and if it can't find your TFS server, it just ignore the source bindings. After installing his MSBuild tasks: To remove the bindings, you'd execute the command line: msbuild Foo.proj /t:RemoveVersionControlBindings To restore the bindings, execute msbuild Foo.proj /t:RestoreVersionControlBindings Regards, Grant From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jansen, David Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzTFS] Offline/Online [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Thanks. The problem I'm having is trying to load up VSTS and a solution when our TFS box is down. The IDE just hangs there for ages trying to connect. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Bartholomew Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzTFS] Offline/Online [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] My understanding is that you don't "go offline", you have to manually remove the read-only attribute on the files you want to change and start making your changes, then "tfpt online" will identify the changes you've made and automatically check the files out for you... It's not a pretty story but it works. ________________________________ Subject: [OzTFS] Offline/Online [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:35:43 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Hi all, I have a simple question regarding working in offline/online mode. I know how to set it to online using TFPT online - but not to offline. Does anyone know how to specifically set your environment to offline? 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