Force Visual Studio to think TFS is offline
June 1, 2008 at 7:14 pm | In Team Foundation Server |Visual Studio 2008 introduced a feature that detects where the current Team Foundation Server is online or offline when you start the IDE.
In the situation where your server is actually ONLINE, but you want to treat it LIKE it’s offline, you have a couple of options.
Option 1 - Use the ‘tfpt tweakui’ utility
You can edit the server setting and go offline.
- Close Visual Studio
- Download and install the latest Team Foundation Power Tools
- Start a Visual Studio Command Prompt
- Type: tfpt tweakui
- Open the server
- Check the [X] Server is offline checkbox
- Open Visual Studio
Option 2 - Yank the network cable before starting Visual Studio
Obviously the IDE won’t be able to contact the server, and will inform you that it is now offline.
Option 3 - Set a registry key
Create a *.reg file with the following text in it, and run it before starting Visual Studio.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Servers\SERVERNAME]
"Offline"=dword:00000001
"AutoReconnect"=dword:00000000
When you want to go back online, you can either go to "File | Source Control | Go Online", or delete this registry key.
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Option 3 - TFS TweakUI Power tool
You can edit the server and go offline: http://www.virtualspot.info/gdm_images/TFS2008PowerToolsTweakUI_CC50/image_4.png
Best,
Lorenzo
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