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Stuart was CTO for Application Consulting EMEA at EMC Consulting until October 2009, now blogging at http://stuartpreston.net

VSTS: "No commands available" in Source Control Explorer a.k.a. "everything is greyed out?!"

This one comes up frequently in our development teams, especially those who have transitioned a project off VSS and into Team Foundation Server.  The question usually goes something like:

 "Someone has installed VS 2005 + Team Explorer on an existing Windows XP box.  They login using their domain credentials open VS 2005, they have access to TFS via Team Explorer. When every they try to view the source control everything is grayed out?
 
Source Control Explorer has not created an work space but on their Vista machine they have access and an work space, do you know what can be the problem?"

Well, the most likely problem is that their VS is not setup to use Team Foundation Server as the source control plugin.  To resolve this, visit Tools > Options > Source Control and select "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" from the list.

Published 14 August 2007 13:04 by Stuart.Preston

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University Update - UN Studio - VSTS: "No commands available" in Source Control Explorer a.k.a. "everything is greyed out?!" said:

August 14, 2007 14:48
 

Team System News said:

Stuart Preston on VSTS: "No Commands Available" in Source Control Explorer a.k.a. "everything is greyed...

August 16, 2007 15:06
 

Frank de Groot said:

Yay! Thanks, this helped me out...
October 30, 2007 09:59
 

Matthew said:

Thanks. That fixed my problem.
December 17, 2007 17:42
 

Jefe said:

Thank you so much.  I was pulling all my hair out trying to figure this out.

May 14, 2008 00:22
 

RaviReddy said:

very useful link

July 8, 2008 21:53
 

Quarty said:

thx, this help me out

July 16, 2008 09:57
 

Rob Bowman said:

That worked, thanks very much.

November 5, 2008 16:21
 

VS Team Explorer greyed out context menu with ‘No commands available’ « About Software Development said:

July 7, 2009 16:01

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