Visual Studio warning: “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read”

Question

Yesterday I made some changes for my solution such as renamed it and moved to a different location in TFS 2013 server.

Today I received the message

“One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly. Please see the Output Window for details”

when opening a solution in Visual Studio:

Unfortunatley the details in the output window were not very helpful:

Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read

I only have one project in the solution. Here is the solution file.

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2013
VisualStudioVersion = 12.0.21005.1
MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "GenericIVR",  "OutboundGeneric\GenericIVR.csproj", "{3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}"
EndProject
Global
    GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution
        SccNumberOfProjects = 1
        SccEnterpriseProvider = {4CA58AB2-18FA-4F8D-95D4-32DDF27D184C}
        SccTeamFoundationServer = http://tfs01:8080/tfs/software%20repository
        SccProjectUniqueName0 = OutboundGeneric\\GenericIVR.csproj
    EndGlobalSection
    GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
        Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
        AnotherDebug|Any CPU = AnotherDebug|Any CPU
        Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
    EndGlobalSection
    GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.AnotherDebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = AnotherDebug|Any CPU
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.AnotherDebug|Any CPU.Build.0 = AnotherDebug|Any CPU
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
        {3B46A2C8-B9FF-48F3-978D-CF27B1EC917D}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU
 EndGlobalSection
 GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
        HideSolutionNode = FALSE
 EndGlobalSection
EndGlobal

Solution 1

Edit your GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution section with the following lines after "SccTeamFoundationServer":

    SccLocalPath0 = .
    SccProjectUniqueName1 = OutboundGeneric\\GenericIVR.csproj
    SccProjectName1 = GenericIVR
    SccLocalPath1 = GenericIVR

Don't ask me why that SccLocalPath0 should be present, but I have seen it in the older VS version too.

Solution 2

I also had a similar problem, in my case I had two GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution sections in my sln. I manually removed the content of the section (and deleted the 2nd entirely). Then I opened my solution and got an error 'solution not under source control'. Then I Added it to source control again via Add to Source Control. Then I saved everything and the section was restored.

Solution 3

Following on from the suggestion above, I found that in my case the solution file had an incorrect number of SccNumberOfProjects configured. Somehow I had managed to get 15, a quick count and correction of the number of projects contained in the solution fixed it for me.

Global  
   GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution
     SccNumberOfProjects = 13
     SccEnterpriseProvider = {4CA58AB2-18FA-4F8D-95D4-32DDF27D184C}

Solution 4

I'm not exactly sure what caused this for me, but my solution was to delete everything between "Global" and "EndGlobal" and then open the solution. It rebuilt the solution file and works fine. Comparing the old and new, it seems probable that there was extraneous info within GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution

Before:

GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
    Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
    Debug|Default = Debug|Default
    Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
    Release|Default = Release|Default
EndGlobalSection

After

GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
    Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
    Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
EndGlobalSection

Solution 5

Similar answer to anhoppe, but with a couple of differences.

I had a situation where a merge of a .sln file had resulted in 2 separate GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) sections, the first had the incorrect number of projects in it, the second had the correct number.

I initially deleted the first GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) and left the second one in place. This didn't work and I still saw the error...

Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read

So, I undid this change and then deleted just the second GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl), saved and re-opened the solution. This did the job and I just had to re-add the couple of projects that had been taken out of source control.

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