C# TFS Set Latest Information of File programmatically?

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I wrote an Visual Studio Extension for our Company, which gets the Specific Version of Files in a Solution based on Microsoft TFS. We use Visual Studio 2015 / 2019.

My question is, is there some way to set the "Latest" Information of an File which gets displayed in the Source Control Explorer programmatically?

Like this: Latest Information Visual Studio

So i have a list with all files which i want to get. Before i used this method to get for every file:

WorkspaceInfo workspaceInfo = Workstation.Current.GetLocalWorkspaceInfo(filePath);
Workspace ws = workspaceInfo.GetWorkspace(new TfsTeamProjectCollection(workspaceInfo.ServerUri));

status = ws.Get(new GetRequest(new ItemSpec(filePath, RecursionType.Full), VersionSpec.Latest), GetOptions.GetAll);

This worked fine and refreshed the latest information. Sadly this method is to slow compared to the "real" Get Specific Version from Visual Studio.

Now I tried this method, which is much faster, but doesn´t change the latest information of the file:

item.DownloadFile(filePath);

Even if I downloaded the file (I checked the differences between changesets) and got the latest version of it, the information in Source Control Explorer keeps saying "No".

Does someone know a solution for this, or even a better solution?

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c#tfsgetlatest
Could you specify why do you want to set the "Latest" information? This information indicates whether the file is the latest version in local workspace. Would this API help you: markheath.net/post/how-to-use-tfs-api-to-retrieve? – Cece Dong - MSFT
Why you dont use the VersionControlServer.DownloadFile instead the item.downloadfile? link – Leo BL

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Why you don't use the VersionControlServer.DownloadFile instead the item.downloadfile? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2012/bb138622(v%3Dvs.110)