Bound project to TFS and now it hangs

[lauraj]

I have a Flare project that has always been checked into source control (TFS), but not bound. This week I decided to bind it, since we have a new writer and it would be easier to work with the tools using the binding. I bound the project yesterday morning; it worked fine as I was editing all day, but hung a couple of times when I closed Flare. No big, I was on the way out anyway so I killed it with task manager.. Today I decided to show the new capability to the new writer. When I opened my project in Flare, Flare hung for over ten minutes. I called off the experiment , let the poor new guy off the phone and headed in to try to unbind the project. So far it's hung each time I've tried to open it. I have never seen Flare hang in this manner before, ever.

I think I'll assume I will be able to get in this afteroon and won't ask that question...
Does anyone know why I'm seeing these problems? I would still like to be able to use the integration with TFS.

[NorthEast]

We had exactly the same problems, when we opened Flare it could hang for 20mins or for a few hours. We tried it out for about 3 weeks, and the project was unusable for about 40% of the time.

I put in a support request, and tried out a few things with our TFS system admin, but we didn't find a solution. In the end time was going by, so I just gave up on TFS and switched to using VSS as that worked fine.

[lauraj]

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Introducing another source control system into our processes isn't a reasonable option for us, so I'll continue to check files in and out of TFS manually.

[NorthEast]

Yep, if you're the only author using the project, then it is easy enough to manually check out the whole project whilst you work on it. We have a team of authors using the project, so we couldn't really do that.
Anyway, good luck!

[lauraj]

Has there been any progress on this problem?

I don't seem to have mentioned it before, but I'm *not* always the only writer on a project, and I *do* have to use TFS, so when I'm coauthoring with another writer there's a lot of jumping windows to check files in and out manually. The source code binding feature just isn't there for me and I sure wish it were.