Showing posts with label MsBuild Extension Path TFS2010 Microsoft Team Server 2010 Build Source Control TfsSource. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MsBuild Extension Path TFS2010 Microsoft Team Server 2010 Build Source Control TfsSource. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

VSTS 2010 MsBuild Extension Pack TfsSource and Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified

I came across this error while trying to check out a file using MsBuild under TFS2010. The error message is misleading because your first inclination is to check the ItemPath or WorkingDirectory in the task. Had I not come across this forum post I may have been stuck for a bit http://msbuildextensionpack.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=74209. The current version of the Extension Pack has some hard coded paths in the task that tell it where to find the tf.exe file. After taking a look at the source code I found if you just add the following path to your Path environment variable the task will function properly.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\