Work Item TFS

Question

Does anybody know how to create new Work Item in TFS using C#?

Answer 1

Answered here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/thread/1ff5415e-0ef2-4c65-b0b7-a109187adf51 (Creating Work Items using TFS API (C#))

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Answer 2

Thanks, but  I don't understand why I need get existings WorkItems from TFS? I need only create new. But using this code from example, we also get workitems from TFS.

 using (TfsTeamProjectCollection projectCollection = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(value)))
            {
                WorkItemStore workItemStore = projectCollection.GetService<WorkItemStore>();

                WorkItem parent = workItemStore.GetWorkItem(11);
                string parentTeamProject = parent.Fields[value].Value.ToString();
                WorkItemType WorkItemType = workItemStore.Projects[parentTeamProject].WorkItemTypes[1];
                WorkItem workItem = WorkItemType.NewWorkItem();
                workItem.Fields["Title"].Value = "Random name";
                workItem.Description = "Random Description";
                workItem.Save();

                int newChildWorkItemID = workItem.Id;
            }

Answer 3

Hello Z.Zidane,

It is OK if you do not have the get work items lines in your sample code. So, you may have your code to be similar to the following:

using (TfsTeamProjectCollection projectCollection = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(value)))
             {
                 WorkItemStore workItemStore = projectCollection.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
 
                 WorkItemType WorkItemType = workItemStore.Projects["TeamProjectName"].WorkItemTypes["WorkItemTypeName"];
                 WorkItem workItem = WorkItemType.NewWorkItem();
                 workItem.Fields["Title"].Value = "Random name";
                 workItem.Description = "Random Description";
                 workItem.Save();
 
             }

Thanks.

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Answer 4

Thanks Vicky.

Z.Zidane - The sample showed how u can retrieve and create work item from the retrieved work items. More samples on the workItemStore available here http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/shair/archive/2011/05/18/tfs-api-index-parts-1-to-37.aspx

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