Cannot check-in recent code changes to Visual Studio Online

Question

For some reason I cannot check in my code to our Visual Studio Online account. Other developers can, but not me. This is the error I am getting:

"Could not find dataspace with category VersionControl and identifier [some guid] "

Searching for any help on the above error is not returning anything meaningful.

This started to happen after I installed Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise. I launched it for the first time after creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013. I then opened that new solution in 2015 and all was fine. Things began to go awry once I tried to put it in our Visual Studio Online account. When I went to Team Explorer in VS 2015 I selected "Projects and My Teams / New Team Project". This then bounced me over to our Visual Studio Online account in the browser for me to fill out that simple form to create a new team project. I filled the form out and submitted. I then got an error that the project was not successfully created. Unfortunately Visual Studio still thinks it was created and it shows up in the list of projects ONLY WITHIN Visual Studio -- it does not show up online. Eventually I just became frustrated and deleted everything related to all that I just tried but then learned that I cannot check anything in now on my old projects! I had other developers test and they still can so the problem evidently is on my machine. I then uninstalled VS 2013 and VS 2015 then reinstalled VS 2013 and am still having the problem.

I am hoping someone can point me to some cached junk that needs to be cleared on my system. :-)

Answer 1

This is a bit shot in the dark, few things you can try:

1. Delete the local cache under:

   %localappdata%\\Microsoft\\Team Foundation %localappdata%\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\14.0\\SyncSettings

2. Open cmd. Type:
   • "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\Tools\\vsvars32.bat"
   • Verify connections: tf settings connections
   • Run Visual Studio in safe mode ( devenv.exe /SafeMode )
   • Run Visual Studio with activity log ( devenv.exe /log ) and check for errors.