"TFS Error"

12th February 2008

If you ever get this error 'The item does not exist at the specified version' from TFS, then double-check that the item you're requesting does actually exist in the repository.

If you ever get this error ‘The item does not exist at the specified version’ from TFS, then double-check that the item you’re requesting does actually exist in the repository. I was having this problem (Broken link, was originally forums.microsoft.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2810999&SiteID=1) with one of our projects, where I was asking TFS for the latest version of this item:

$/Online Services Solution Template/Main/Source

But after much investigation (including querying the TFS SQL database directly (Broken link, was originally forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2367863&SiteID=1)) I discovered that the correct item name was in fact:

$/Online Services Solution Templates/Main/Source

So another way to read that error message would be as “I can’t find an item with that name, are you sure you typed it correctly?”

*[TFS]: Team Foundation Server