Here is the situation. A few months ago I started uising the integrated GitHub functionality of VS 2022 to backup my projects. For each project I created a new repository issued commits regularly and the last commit is the last version that I delivered to a customer. That's it, a simple linear process, no branches or other fancy stuff. All repositories were created using the defaults presented by VS and I didn't change anything locally or in GitHub.

Now I need to get one of those projects to create a variant and don't want to alter the original, so, I started VS and selected CLONE a project and selected the repository that I need. The clone aparently downloaded all the files folders and solution correctly and everyting is there. BUT something is terrybly WRONG!, the context menu of solution explorer is very basic. I can't run or compile any of the projects in the solution. Trying to complie one of the projects from the top menu I get this error:

========== C++ Build Insights ========== Starting collection… Warning: the MSVC toolset version has not been determined for one or more projects. To collect data as ordinary user with Visual Studio the MSVC toolset version '14.34' is required. To workaround any potential issues, it is recommended to run Visual Studio as an administrator. Collecting data…

It stays "collecting data" for almost an hour now and still working...

What's wrong with this?, should I have to change any settigns when I created the repository?

Here is the situation. A few months ago I started uising the integrated GitHub functionality of VS 2022 to backup my projects. For each project I created a new repository issued commits regularly and the last commit is the last version that I delivered to a customer. That's it, a simple linear process, no branches or other fancy stuff. All repositories were created using the defaults presented by VS and I didn't change anything locally or in GitHub.

Now I need to get one of those projects to create a variant and don't want to alter the original, so, I started VS and selected CLONE a project and selected the repository that I need. The clone aparently downloaded all the files folders and solution correctly and everyting is there. BUT something is terrybly WRONG!, the context menu of solution explorer is very basic. I can't run or compile any of the projects in the solution. Trying to complie one of the projects from the top menu I get this error:

========== C++ Build Insights ========== Starting collection… Warning: the MSVC toolset version has not been determined for one or more projects. To collect data as ordinary user with Visual Studio the MSVC toolset version '14.34' is required. To workaround any potential issues, it is recommended to run Visual Studio as an administrator. Collecting data…

It stays "collecting data" for almost an hour now and still working...

What's wrong with this?, should I have to change any settigns when I created the repository?

• visual-studio
• github

1 Answer 1

The solution is simple after all.

Close Visual Studio and double click on the Solution file. And dverything comes to life!

I wonder why VS doesn't do that automatically!