Open Work Item in Team Web Access from C# Code

Question

Steps:

1. Connect

 

I have created a Work Item in TFS in C# code and now I would like to open that same Work Item in Team Web Access. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Steps:

1. Connect to a Team Project in TFS using the TeamProjectPicker Dialog in C#

2. Create a work item with a title and save it

3. Open the newly created work item in Team Web Access so the user can contiue editing it ( - I don't know how to do this).

Here is the code I have currently

    private void PickTFSProject()
    {
      TeamProjectPicker pp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.SingleProject, false);

      pp.ShowDialog();

      if (pp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection == null)
      {
        throw new Exception("Nothing selected");
      }
      pp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection.EnsureAuthenticated();
      tfsProjectCollection = pp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;
      store = (WorkItemStore)tfsProjectCollection.GetService(typeof(WorkItemStore));

      
      tfsproject = store.Projects[pp.SelectedProjects[0].Name];
    }

    private void CreateWorkItem(string wiType)
    {
      WorkItem pbiWI = new WorkItem(tfsproject.WorkItemTypes[wiType]);
      pbiWI.Title = "Test title";
      pbiWI.Save();
      
    }

Thanks,

Gunnar Thorsteinsson

 

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Project Manager LS Retail, PMP

Answer 1

Hi Gunnar,

 

Thanks for your post.

 

Do you mean that you created a new Work Item using TFS API, then you want to find this new Work Item in Team Web Access and continue to edit it(manually)?

 

For how to get work items in Team Web Access, please refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523998.aspx.

 

After pbiWI.Save(), I think you can get this new Work Item’s ID like: pbiWI.Id. Then get this work item in Team Web Access using ID directly.

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Answer 2

Hi Gunnar,

 

What about the progress for this issue?

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Answer 3

Hello John and thank you for your answer,

 

I am able to open my Work Item in Team Web access using the code

    private void CreateWorkItem(string wiType)
    {
      WorkItem pbiWI = new WorkItem(tfsproject.WorkItemTypes[wiType]);
      pbiWI.Title = "Test title";
      pbiWI.Save();
      GotoWI(pbiWI.Id);
      pbiWI.Close();
    }

    private void GotoWI(int wiID)
    {
      string myUrl = @"https://<SERVER NAME>:<SERVER PORT>/tfs/web/wi.aspx?id=" + wiID.ToString();
      System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(myUrl);
    }

I am able to hard code my <SERVER NAME>:<SERVER PORT> but do you know if I can get the URL to the work item programmatically?

 

Best regards,

Gunnar 

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Project Manager LS Retail, PMP

Answer 4

Hi Gunnar,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

As far as I know, the Work Item page URL address in Team Web Access is: http://servername:port/tfs/web/UI/Pages/WorkItems/WorkItemEdit.aspx?id=id&pguid=TeamProjectGUID. For example: http://servername:8080/tfs/web/UI/Pages/WorkItems/WorkItemEdit.aspx?id=1&pguid=ea844cc1-e08e-49f3-baeb-9e554519e473. Please try this.

 

You can find Team Project’s Guid in Team Explorer, selected Team Project, check Team Project’s Url in Properties windows, it should be: vstfs:///Classification/TeamProject/guid.

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Answer 5

Hi Gunnar,

 

Have you tried that?

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Answer 6

Here is what I am doing:

		private void OpenWorkItem(WorkItem wi)
		{
			const string workItemUrl = @"{0}://{1}:{2}/tfs/web/wi.aspx?id={3}";
			string scheme = wi.Store.TeamProjectCollection.Uri.Scheme;
			string server = wi.Store.TeamProjectCollection.Uri.Host;
			int port = wi.Store.TeamProjectCollection.Uri.Port;
 
			string url = string.Format(workItemUrl, scheme, server, port, wi.Id);
			System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url);
		}