Where do I find Visual Studio Team explorer error details?

Question

When I open the Pending Changes tab in Visual Studio Team Explorer, it says that "One or more errors occurred." Where can I find details on what kind(s) of error have occurred?

Some background: We have recently upgraded our source code repository from TFS 2010 to Azure DevOps Server 2020 (with TFS 2015 as a required intermediate step), in the process moving from one server to another. After switching the URL in Visual Studio, developers started getting this error message. Apart from that, everything seems to be working fine. Pending changes are displayed, check-in/check-out works.

Answer 1

There is no such related logs stored in TFS/Azure DevOps side.

For TFS/Azure DevOps, the installation log file generally store in temp folder.

Typically this folder is : C:\Users\{name}\AppData\Local\Temp

And the Configuration logs stored in:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Server Configuration\Logs

The logs should be stored accordingly in case of TFS version upgrade.

In your situation, sometimes if you are working with multiple TFS account /TFS version in the same system then TFS caches something and throws the error . So, for this you can clear the TFS cache and check if this work.

You can clear TFS’s cache from following location:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\x.0\Cache

Once cache will delete, probably TFS will ask for credential to reconnect. You need to provide valid credentials.

If you still get similar errors after above steps, I would suggest you also clear Visual Studio cache, which may do the trick.

Answer 2

I closed the visual studio and reopened and it got fixed.