TFS API: GetLocalWorkspaceInfo always returns null

c#, tfs-sdk

Solution

After migrating from TFS2013 to TFS2017 in the company I work for I had the same problem with Workstation.Current.GetLocalWorkspaceInfo.

What worked for me is a call to `Workstation.EnsureUpdateWorkspaceInfoCache`:

TfsTeamProjectCollection tpc = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("<your-tfs-uri-here>"));
VersionControlServer tfServer = tpc.GetService<VersionControlServer>();
Workstation.Current.EnsureUpdateWorkspaceInfoCache(tfServer, tfServer.AuthorizedUser);

I added the above code lines to the constructor of my TFS proxy class that uses GetLocalWorkspaceInfo.

Problem

On one of my machines, I get a return value of null from any `GetLocalWorkspaceInfo` call. I have isolated to problem to where it even fails for this simple program: ``` namespace WorkstationTest { using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client; class Program { static void Main() { string workspaceLocalPath = @"C:\Dev"; var info = Workstation.Current .GetLocalWorkspaceInfo(workspaceLocalPath); // info is always null here } } } ``` What I have already checked: The exact same code works on my other machine the way it should. I have verified that I have a workspace at `C:\Dev` I have created a new workspace and in a different directory and changed the `workspaceLocalPath` variable in the code to match. I have consulted the documentation which states that the return value will be null `if the path is not in a workspace`. From the above image, the path should be in a workspace. Yet, everything seems to suggest this should work. Is there anything I could be missing?

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