TFS

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):

var itemSpecs = new[] { new ItemSpec("$/", RecursionType.Full) };
var pendingSets = _vcs.QueryPendingSets(itemSpecs, null, null);

var pendingChanges = (from pendingSet in pendingSets
					  from pendingChange in pendingSet.PendingChanges
					  orderby pendingSet.OwnerDisplayName, pendingChange.ServerItem
					  select new PendingChange
					  {
						  OwnerDisplayName = pendingSet.OwnerDisplayName,
						  OwnerName = pendingSet.OwnerName,
						  LocalItem = pendingChange.LocalItem,
						  ServerItem = pendingChange.ServerItem,
						  PendingSetName = pendingChange.PendingSetName + " [" + pendingSet.Computer + "]"
					  }).ToList();

var itemSpecs = new[] { new ItemSpec("$/", RecursionType.Full) };

var pendingSets = _vcs.QueryPendingSets(itemSpecs, null, null);

var pendingChanges = (from pendingSet in pendingSets

from pendingChange in pendingSet.PendingChanges

orderby pendingSet.OwnerDisplayName, pendingChange.ServerItem

select new PendingChange

{

OwnerDisplayName = pendingSet.OwnerDisplayName,

OwnerName = pendingSet.OwnerName,

LocalItem = pendingChange.LocalItem,

ServerItem = pendingChange.ServerItem,

PendingSetName = pendingChange.PendingSetName + " [" + pendingSet.Computer + "]"

}).ToList();

The PendingChange class is a simple POCO:

public class PendingChange
{
	public string OwnerDisplayName { get; set; }
	public string OwnerName { get; set; }
	public string LocalItem { get; set; }
	public string ServerItem { get; set; }
	public string PendingSetName { get; set; }
}

public class PendingChange

{

public string OwnerDisplayName { get; set; }

public string OwnerName { get; set; }

public string LocalItem { get; set; }

public string ServerItem { get; set; }

public string PendingSetName { get; set; }

}

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

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TFS: automating pending change set reminder emails