TFS: automating pending change set reminder emails

As an admin of a TFS server I wanted to be able to send an email to people reminding them of any pending changes they may have.
I knocked up a quick application and have now configured it to run once a week with a scheduled task.

The main logic to get pending change sets is (where _vcs is a VersionControlServer from the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client namespace):

The PendingChange class is a simple POCO:

After that it was a simple case of looping through the PendingChanges List<> building up emails and sending them.

 

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