Is there workaround for when TFPT is “unable to determine the workspace” and refreshing the cache does not work?

Question

I\'m having trouble getting TFPT.exe to work at all, even after trying to refresh the cached workspace settings per the usual advice on the internet. See below for a log repres

Answer 1

For those in vs2017: try firing up vs2015 (not 2017), make sure to connect to TFS server in vs2015, and then tfpt worked just fine.

But note: it sounds like the tf powertools commands are being integrated into the new tfs tooling, so tfpt is not really a thing in 2017. See Daniel Mann's answer here for more info and helpful links: tfpt.exe on Visual Studio 2017