Constantly get The local data store is currently in use by another operation when working on small projects

Question

I use Visual Studio Team Services to store the source code of my projects as I work on them, I love the service, especially that it is free, but I have been running into the big

Answer 1

I did as mentioned below and TFS started working fine

1. Close all the VS instances
2. Go to: C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_46af8b8e
3. Delete the privateregistry.bin file
4. Reopen the project solution

Above worked for me.