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BLenau
BLenau

Reputation: 95

Eclipse Team Foundation Server plugin (Team Explorer Everywhere) giving null errors

I have been using the TFS plugin for eclipse with my companies TFS server for several months. Last week, my laptop crashed while eclipse was open and a connection to the TFS was present. Now, every time I launch eclipse, I get an error stating a connection could not be made to the server, throwing a NullPointerException.

To try to fix this, I cleaned eclipse from my system and removed the installed plugin and then reinstalled eclipse and the TFS plugin. Now, I am no longer getting this connection error on launch. I added the original TFS to the list of servers in eclipse and it can see all of the projects (see https://i.sstatic.net/KLNQY.png).

However, trying to use any of the projects leads to a screen with an error message saying Error querying workspaces: null. The error log shows the plugin in question as com.microsot.tfs.client.common, with the stack trace saying An exception stack trace is not available.

I am using the same exact plugin installation that I originally used. I have no idea why I'm getting these errors.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4230

Answers (1)

Edward Thomson
Edward Thomson

Reputation: 78703

The error logs may be helpful. You can view them by going to Help > Team Explorer Everywhere Support, then clicking on the Logs tab.

Ultimately, though, this is probably some corrupt configuration files. TEE performs some various background tasks and I suspect one of those was interrupted in the middle of some file I/O when your computer crashed. Deleting the cache directory may be helpful:

~/.microsoft/Team Foundation

When you restart Eclipse, you should get a dialog box that indicates that your TFS server information cannot be located, but when you reconnect to that TFS server, your projects should return to being TFS managed.

Upvotes: 4

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