I'm trying to implement a plugin for Team Foundation Server 2010 that will create reports about users in a team project. Conceptually, all I need in order to properly implement this plugin is access to the same data that you get when you use the "Annotate" feature in Visual Studio: I need to be able to tell who was the last person to author a given line of code.
I've scoured the Internet for documentation or code samples, but all that I can find are either suggestions such as using the TFS command-line tools or seemingly incomplete code samples.
I don't mind doing a lot of heavy lifting in the client code, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to get useful authorship data about the contents of the code in a Changeset, nor from the merge details return.
Meanwhile I found a working solution that executes Team Foundation Power Tools process and parses its output:
private readonly Regex m_Regex = new Regex(@"^(?<changeset>\d+)(?<codeLine>.*)", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.Multiline);
public List<Changeset> GetAnnotations(string filepath, string codeText)
{
var versionControlServer = CreateVersionControlServer();
return m_Regex.Matches(ExecutePowerTools(filepath))
.Cast<Match>()
.Where(m => m.Groups["codeLine"].Value.Contains(codeText))
.Select(v => versionControlServer.GetChangeset(int.Parse(v.Groups["changeset"].Value), false, false))
.ToList();
}
private static VersionControlServer CreateVersionControlServer()
{
var projectCollection = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(@"TFS URL"));
var versionControlServer = projectCollection.GetService<VersionControlServer>();
return versionControlServer;
}
private static string ExecutePowerTools(string filepath)
{
using (var process = Process.Start(TfptLocation, string.Format("annotate /noprompt {0}", filepath)))
{
process.WaitForExit();
return process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
}
}
I had very similar requirement to get details of particular attribute in a file e.g. who added, when, related work items etc.; Following GitHub project is having implementation to get required details and required minimal changes to work-
SonarQube SCM TFVC plugin
It requires analysis to be executed from Windows machines with the Team Foundation Server Object Model installed (download for TFS 2013).