How to stop "Projects have recently been added to this solution." popup

Question

_{Monday, October 21, 2019 8:05 PM}

For the past few weeks, every time I open my solution, I get a popup with the message "Source Control" "Projects have recently been added to this solution. Do you want to get them from source control?" The popup has three buttons: "Yes", "No", & "Help".  Neither "Yes" nor "No" do anything, and clicking "Help" just takes you to "docs.microsoft.com"! (NOT helpful!) What does this message mean? How can I find out what projects TFS thinks have been added to the solution? How can I stop this popup from popping up EVERY TIME I load my solution?

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_{Monday, October 28, 2019 1:10 PM ✅Answered}

I ended up deleting the offending .sln file.

I don't know if @Tianyu's suggestion would have fixed it or not. If I experience this again in the future, I will try it.

_{Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:31 AM}

Hi friend,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

According to your description, your issue is more related to TFS(Azure DevOps Server), and TFS forum has been moved to Developer Community Forum, please redirect your issue to Developer Community Forum and start a new thread with tag tfs to seek for a more professional support.

BTW, I have found a similar issue, according to it, I suggest you could follow below steps to troubleshoot this issue.

#1. Unbind the solution from TFS (Do this by going to File -> Source Control -> Change Source Control).

#2. Cleaning the solution file by deleting globalsection. Open solution file(.sln) in a text editor, and remove all occurrences of GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution. Including the mentioned staring tag and the ending tag EndGlobalSection.

#3. Rebind the solution with TFS (File -> Source Control -> Change Source Control).

You could also refer to these blog and thread.

Hope all above could help you.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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_{Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:35 AM | 1 vote}

Hi AngryJ,

Did Tianyu's suggestion help you? 

In addition, we suggest you could also open Menu Team -> disconnect form the server, it will not check files from tfs server, then you could re-connect it if you need tfs.

Hope it could help you.

Best Regards,

Dylan

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_{Monday, October 28, 2019 3:17 AM}

Your source control is turned on and I do not mind Git is making these messages for you so too much possible other source control tool is doing this job.