Question

When I try to download a file from TFS version control SDK to my computer I receive an ‘UnauthorizedAccessException’ saying Access to the local path I’m trying to download to is denied. I included a stripped down version of the code I am using below.

var projectCollection = GetProjectCollection();
var versionControl = (VersionControlServer)projectCollection.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
versionControl.DownloadFile('$/path to file', 'local path to download to');

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

I found the issue.

The second argument in DownloadFile() needs to be the file name it will be downloaded as and not the parent directory it will be placed in. I thought it just needed the directory name.

So instead of what I originally had

versionControl.DownloadFile("$/Readme.txt", "C:\\Temp");

it needs to be

versionControl.DownloadFile("$/Readme.txt", "C:\\Temp\\Readme.txt");