Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read

There are times when loading a solution in Visual Studio 2005 you get a “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read” but the solution is nonetheless loaded.

There’s a KB about it, but the problem we had here had nothing to do to what’s being described on the article.

The problem lays on the fact that for some reason, the TFS source control section of the solution file got duplicated and there were multiple instances of it:

GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution

….

EndGlobalSection

 

To fix the problem:

  1. Unbind the solution from source control
  2. Open the .sln with Notepad and make sure you delete all of the “GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution” sections from the file.
  3. Bind the solution to source control again.

With that, Visual Studio will recreate the section properly and you should stop receiving the message.

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Alfred Myers

I have been interested in computers since I got my hands on a magazine about digital electronics back in 1983 and programming them has been paying the bills since 1991. Having focused on Microsoft-centric technology stacks for the best part of two decades, in recent years I’ve been educating myself on open source technologies such as Linux, networking and the open web platform.

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