Visual Studio 2003, Subversion and Web-Projects

Today I ran into an error using VS2003 ASP.NET Projects and SVN for version control. The error I got when I opened a SVN-controlled web-project was “Refreshing the project failed. Unable to retrieve folder information from the server.” This error occurs, because Visual Studio 2003 cannot handle folder names starting with a period (“.”). So the most pragmatic way to get is working is to write two batch files to rename all “.svn” folders before opening the project and rename them back when synchronizing with the SVN-repository:

hide-svn.cmd
@ECHO OFF
FOR /R %%f IN (.svn) DO IF EXIST "%%f" (
ATTRIB -h "%%f"
RENAME "%%f" _svn
)

restore-svn.cmd
@ECHO OFF
FOR /R %%f IN (_svn) DO IF EXIST "%%f" (
RENAME "%%f" .svn
ATTRIB +h "%%~pf\.svn"
)


Note: this is one solution taken from tigris.org.

Before using the two batch files it may be necessary to clean the VSWebCache folder. This folder contains the structure of web projects so Visual Studio can load the projects faster. It is located in the users directory (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Username\VSWebCache).

3 Kommentare:

Tanks a lot this helped me

Kommentar von Shrage Smilowitz — May 3, 2007 17:22

I do not know, which SVN client you use but if you use TortoiseSVN, you can tell the client to always use _svn instead of .svn in folder names. Then it just works with VS.NET (either 2003 or 2005). Without any manual renaming.

Markus

Kommentar von Markus — June 6, 2007 11:58

Thanks for the info, fixed my problem right up it did!

Kommentar von billie — July 6, 2007 22:56

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