Work offline in Team Foundation Server

Question

Is there a way to set \"work offline\" in TFS without having to try opening a solution, waiting for it to time out, and then having Visual Studio work out that it has failed

Answer 1

If TFS is down, you might have trouble going into offline mode. If you close and reopen your solution, a nice little dialog will appear asking you if you want to Go Offline.

Alternatively if you don't want to close/reopen the solution, you can install the TFS Go-Offline plugin, then click:

TEAM -> Go Offline