How to get git like statistics from TFS

Question

I\'ve been working with TFS for a few months now and would like to get some basic statistics and make them available to our team. In git, i could retrieve statistics on \"commit

Answer 1

You can use the TFS API to create any queries you like. You can quite easily iterate through the changesets looking for all commits by a certain author, or commits in a certain date:

TfsTeamProjectCollection tpc = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("http://tfsserver:8080/"));
tpc.EnsureAuthenticated();
VersionControlServer vcs = tpc.GetService(); 

int latest = vcs.GetLatestChangesetId();
DateTime earliestDate = new DateTime(2011, 1, 1);
do
{
    var changeset = vcs.GetChangeset(latest);                
    if (changeset.CreationDate < earliestDate)
    {
        break;
    }
    // do analysis of the changeset here,
    // e.g. use changeset.Committer or changeset.Changes
} while (latest-- > 0);