Question

Currently trying to build a script utilizing cmdlets from the MS released ‘Team Foundation Server Power Tools’ package.

I’m attempting to flow command logic from the success or failure of the ‘Update-TfsWorkspace‘ cmdlet however I can’t seem get a return code out of the call nor can I capture the output using Out-String. I’m using Powershell v1.

update-tfsworkspace 'C:\doesnotexist\' -recurse -version T 

Yields a message of ‘Unable to determine the workspace.’ which is the error I’m trying to catch.

$ret = update-tfsworkspace 'C:\doesnotexist\' -recurse -version T 

Is expected to give me a $true/$false indicating success/fail but doesn’t work.

update-tfsworkspace 'C:\doesnotexist\' -recurse -version T | Out-Null 

Is expected to prevent the cmdlet from writing the message but doesn’t work.

trap{echo 'fail'} update-tfsworkspace $workspace_path -recurse -version T 

Is expected to catch an error and write ‘fail’ but doesn’t work.

$msg = update-tfsworkspace $workspace_path -recurse -version T | Out-String 

Is expected to populate a $msg variable with the host output but doesn’t work.

I’m totally out of ideas here. Help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Little hacky, but since I don’t have TFS to try to figure something else out, see if this helps.