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I am trying to modify my project so that on build it queries for the current TFS changeset for the local directory and uses that to form the build number (using http://florent.clairambault.fr/insert-svn-version-and-build-number-in-your-c-assemblyinfo-file as a reference).

Since we currently are not using team build or any continuous integration for this particular project at this time I plan to use:

tf history . /r /noprompt /stopafter:1 /version:W

However, when I test this command out using the visual studio command prompt in my project's directly (where I work from TFS) it claims:

There is no working folder mapping for xxxxxxxx

The folder is shown as mapped in my workspaces in Visual Studio's Source Control Explorer (shows as the local path), and when I edit my workspace.

Why is the command line utility claiming there is no working folder when it is?

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You will see this error message if you are using Visual Studio 2012 (and the corresponding Team Explorer 2012 client) and you are using tf.exe from Team Explorer 2010.

TFS 2010 clients store their local workspace cache in a different location on-disk than TFS 2012 clients. Thus, if you are to create a workspace with a TFS 2012 client, the TFS 2010 client cannot see that workspace data until it has connected to the server and populated its own local client cache.

It sounds like you're okay with using the TFS 2012 version of tf.exe, so I would make sure that your PATH contains an entry to that one first, and this should resolve your problem.

If you really wanted interoperability between the two versions, you would need to make sure to connect to your TFS server from both clients in order to make sure the workspace cache was complete for both. However make sure that you are using only server workspaces in this case, as TFS 2010 cannot connect to a TFS 2012 local workspace.

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