Buck Hodges

VC API: CheckIn() may return 0

September 18, 2006 Sep 18, 2006 09/18/06

Buck Hodges

Back in March, I wrote a post called How to check in changes on behalf of other users.  Among other things, you'll find the documentation comments for the Workspace.CheckIn() method, which you'll notice is now on MSDN.  While that and How to validate check-in policies, evaluate check-in notes, and check for conflicts are ...

Links to code samples

August 12, 2006 Aug 12, 2006 08/12/06

Buck Hodges

I recently had to put together a list of links to code samples.  This isn't even close to comprehensive, but it should help you get going if you are looking for something.Version Control TFS Work Item Tracking...

Getting Changeset objects from associated work items

August 12, 2006 Aug 12, 2006 08/12/06

Buck Hodges

On internal mailing list, someone asked how to do this, and I thought it's worth sharing.  You can get a Changeset object using its artifact URI (aka link) via VersionControlServer.ArtifactProvider.  Here’s how that would look like, based on modifying code from James Manning’s blog posthttp://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/...

Compare the content changes in a shelveset with any checked-in version

May 1, 2006 May 1, 2006 05/1/06

Buck Hodges

I wrote this snippet recently to compare the edited files in a shelveset with an arbitrary checked-in version of the same files.  It's another example of how to use the API to show differences.  See How to compare (diff) trees at different versions using the API for a different example of comparing checked-in files.If you are just ...

How to compare (diff) trees at different versions using the API

April 6, 2006 Apr 6, 2006 04/6/06

Buck Hodges

Recently the question of how to compare files and folders came up.  TFS version 1 doesn't have the project difference type of functionality that was available in VSS.  So if you want to write your own, this code sample will help you with the calls to get the information you'll want to display. The code shows two different ...

How to get the login dialog when using the Team Foundation Server API

March 17, 2006 Mar 17, 2006 03/17/06

Buck Hodges

Someone asked how to get the login dialog if the user fails to authenticate.  The code to do that is shown below.  I copied the call to the constructor from the basic API example, and I've added code to create and pass a UICredentialsProvider object to the TeamFoundationServer constructor.Also, I'm now calling EnsureAuthenticated().&...

Team Foundation Version Control client API example (RTM version)

March 15, 2006 Mar 15, 2006 03/15/06

Buck Hodges

[Update 3/10/2012] If you are using TFS 2010 or newer, there is an updated version control client API example.[Update 6/13/06] While the documentation is not what it needs to be, you can find reference-style documentation on a significant amount of the API in the VS SDK (current release is April): http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/12/09...