Repair Local Visual Studio TFS Workspace Mapping

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I have managed to corrupt my local Visual Studio Team Foundation Server workspace mappings. Visual Studio can successfully connect to TFS and I can manage the TFS Server connections. However, I cannot open Source Control Explorer or the Workspaces/Manage Workspaces dialogue. Both windows fail with the following message: "Error Unexpected end of file.". From my local machine I also cannot get any information about my workspaces from the tf.exe command line which fails with the same error message "Unexpected end of file."

I would like to note that TFS/database still has my workspaces mapped correctly since I can successfully retrieve information about them from a different machine.

I would like to repair or remove whatever local file Visual Studio is using to map the workspaces. Does anyone know where this information is stored?

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1 Answers

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I've fixed my issue where Visual Studio was unable to open Source Control Explorer and Workspaces/Manage Workspaces dialogue by deleting the cache folder located here at:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Team Foundation\5.0\Cache

Once this folder was deleted reopening Visual Studio was able to connect to Source Control Explorer and I can once again manage my workspaces from the IDE. (Visual Studio created a new cache folder in the same location after starting)