Recently I’ve been working on a project with a friend of mine. One of the things we were playing with was Team Foundation Server 2010. So we set it up and I connected to it using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Collaborating was not an issue. Sharing documents, using source control,… everything worked fine. Now I wanted to work on some of my ideas. I wanted to start a new project in Visual Studio, but the only option that was available to me was the “Start new team project” issue:

When clicking here, I got the following error (which is ok since my rights on that TFS server have been revoked):

The weird thing here is that I have a fully working version of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate installed, but I only get the Team Explorer functionality. You can verify this by checking the installed components of Visual Studio in the “About”-window (Help –> About Microsoft Visual Studio).

To get back to the “normal” mode in Visual Studio (meaning: being able to create new projects and working with VS2010 normally) you need to reset your preferences by doing Tools > Import/Export settings > Import. Here you can choose to reset everything or to import a certain configuration. I chose to import a predefined configuration without backing up my current configuration (wasn’t much use to me anyhow):

I selected the Visual C# Development Settings and pressed “Next”. There I chose to reset all settings and clicked the “Finish” button:

Now that my configuration settings have been restored, I have the regular view in my Visual Studio and I can create projects again!