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"Pending Changes” and “Source Control Explorer” missing from Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2013

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This week I had a customer connected to Visual Studio Online using VS 2013 Pro, but all he had in TE were “Work Items”, “Builds”, and “Settings”. He was missing “Pending Changes” and “Source Control Explorer”. Connecting to the same account using the same version of VS as the same user, just from another machine… he saw everything in TE (so not a permissions thing).

FIX: We exited VS and ran "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup from an elevated command prompt. This will not start VS. You will have to watch DEVENV.EXE in Task Manager to determine when it has exited. When it exited the customer started VS, connected to his VSO team project and the “Source Control Explorer” and “Pending Changes” tiles were back in Team Explorer. 

Saw this again about a week later as well. This time the user could not check in pending changes to a TFVC project on VSO from VS 2013. He saw the err below in TE (Page 'fd273aa7-0538-474b-954f-2327f91cef5e' not found."). Command line worked fine to check in. I had him run the /SETUP and it fixed VS.

 

  

As you can imagine this is likely not a VSO specific, but a TE\VS thing. I hope you don’t see this issue, but if you do I hope this fixes it for you.

Trev
PS: See MSDN Docs on /SETUP switch: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ex6a2fad.aspx

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2014
    Awesome!  Was having the 'Page <GUID> not found' issue using VS2012 / TFS (express) and this fixed it!  Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2014
    Glad it helped! :-) --Trev

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2014
    Awesome!  This worked like a charm!

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2014
    Another thank you.  Happened on the free Cloud TFS that microsoft supplies

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2014
    Worked for me too

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2014
    This worked perfectly for me :) Thanks a ton!!

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2014
    Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2014
    Thank you very much

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2014
    This worked for me, I had the same problem and the solution was through the command you provided. When the process exited and I re-ran VS 2013 I was able to check-in my code. Thank you so much!

  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2014
    I had a similar problem.  "Home" page of the Team Explorer was just listing solutions, none of the other icons such as My Work, Pending Changes, Work Items, etc.  Also, the Check In Comment field was missing. The above fix resolved the problem for me.

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2014
    Worked also for me. Thanks a lot

  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2014
    This also worked for me, thanks for the fix! Was using VS 2013 Ultimate with TFS 2013, and had the "Page <GUID> not found" error whenever I clicked on Builds in Team Explorer.

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2014
    thanks a lot, it helped

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2014
    Thanks for blogging this!

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2014
    Thanks for this fix.  My tiles all disappeared yesterday and this resolved the issue.

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2014
    Got this error in VS2013 Premium. This fixed it! Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2014
    had the same issue today... fixed with this hint. thank you

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2014
    That worked! quite a simple solution.

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2015
    Fantastic, thank you! Just needed this. In my case the 'Pending Changes' tile was visible but presented the error whenever I would click on it. (Or, for that matter, when clicking 'Check In' via the context menu in Source Control Explorer.)

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2015
    Run command prompt as administrator, then run "C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe" /setup

  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2015
    Just ran into this as well today, your fix worked great for me!  Thanks for the blog!

  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2015
    Just ran into this weird issue today, running /setup did the trick!  Thanks for your blog!

  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2015
    wow... That worked like a charm. Last time, I had to reinstall Visual Studio to get this fixed.

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2015
    This was life saving. This issue still exists after VS2013 Update 4. Seems like an integration issue with VS<->TFS. Thanks for the fix.

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2016
    Thanks. Worked fantastic.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2016
    If you get this issue in VS2015 and running "C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0Common7IDEdevenv" /setup doesn't fix you issue you can try the following:

  1. Close all instances of VS
  2. Delete all files in C:Users<user.admin>AppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio14.0ComponentModelCache
  3. run "C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0Common7IDEdevenv" /setup
  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2016
    Awesome! this worked perfectly for me. :)
  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2016
    I could bring "pending changes" and "source control explorer" back to visible by following the steps1. Navigate to the menu Tools -> Options->Source Control2. In the Plug-In selection, select "current source control plug-in" as "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server"3. Click OK.4. You should be able to see the changes in Team explorer.
  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2016
    This just helped recover all of the Team Explorer tabs (Pending Changes, Work Items, etc) in VS2013 Update 5. Thanks!
  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2017
    awesome it worked!
  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2017
    Kool! This works even today! :)