How can I completely remove TFS Bindings

Question

I have a solution that contains a good deal of projects,

I would like to remove the source control bindings completely, how can I do this?

Update: What I really want to do is move one solution and its projects from TFS 2005 -> 2008. Thats why I am removing the bindings, is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

If anyone needs to do this outside the context of the Visual Studio application - via command-line for example, I wrote a small tool which will strip the source control bindings from Solution And Project files. The source is available here: https://github.com/saveenr/VS_unbind_source_control

Answer 2

In VS2017

1. go to Home in Team Explorer
2. Click on Settings in project section
3. Click on Repository Settings in Git section
4. From next window see Remotes section. you will see option for remove

NB: I check that for git repository

Answer 3

The other option is

Delete the workspace

re-map when needed

Make sure to check, rollback (Undo Pending changes)

before you remove workspace

This is quickest and surest one

Good Luck

Answer 4

File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Change Source Control and then unbind and/or disconnect all projects and the solution.

This should remove all bindings from the solution and project files. (After this you can switch the SCC provider in Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection).

The SCC specification prescribes that all SCC providers should implement this behavior. (I only tested it for VSS, TFS and AnkhSVN)

Answer 5

1. Go to File -> Source Control -> Advanced -> Change Source Control (if change source control doesn't appear, click on solution in the solution explorer then try again)
2. Unbind solution and all projects

Now right click on solution and you will see "Add Project To Source Control". if you want to add project to source control again you might be get some errors that ask you to change the solution folder on TFS. it happens because your solution has some mapping in a workspace yet. remove mapping or delete workspace. now your solution is completely unbind and unmapped from TFS or workspaces.

Answer 6

Old post, so just adding to the answers of @Matt Frear and @Johan Buret. Both work.

But in Matt's case, you also need to set these (VS 2012) in Notepad/text editor:

SccProjectName = ""
SccAuxPath = ""
SccLocalPath = ""
SccProvider = ""

To each project in the solution file (.sln).

@Johan's answer effectively does this....