Unable to get IBuildServer - always returning null

March 20, 2015

I recently had a very strange error while using the TFS API. The error was with the following code:



var tfs = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(URI));
var vcs = tfs.GetService<VersionControlServer>();
var buildServer = tfs.GetService<IBuildServer>();                

The problem being that `buildServer` was being set to null. I had the TFS server set-up locally, and there was a controller, an agent and a build configured.

I spent a good while trying to debug, what I thought was, an error with the code.

The Solution

Turns out the problem was with the reference:

TFSBuildRef

The problem was that I was referencing the wrong version (trying to connect to TFS2013 but the build client version was 11.0.0.0). Swapping it to version 12.0.0.0 works fine.

It sounds like a silly mistake, but if you make it, it’s very difficult to spot.



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