Finding IterationID in TFS

Question

we are linking Iterations within TFS to an external system for tracking projects through the entire company. In the past, we were linking using the IterationPath in a TFS Pr

Answer 1

I'd use the powershell snap-in from the latest TFS Power Tools for this.

> $tfs = Get-TfsServer <name> -all
> $tfs.WIT.Projects | % { $_.IterationRootNodes } | ft -auto id, path

 Id Path                                       
 -- ----                                 
100 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 1        
 92 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 2        
 97 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 3        
 91 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 4        
 94 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 5        
 93 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 1\Sprint 6        
 96 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 2\Sprint 1        
 90 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 2\Sprint 2        
 98 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 2\Sprint 3        
 99 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 3\Sprint 1        
 95 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 3\Sprint 2        
 89 Test-ConchangoV2\Release 3\Sprint 3        

Answer 2

if you want to print out all TFS Areas then change the following line:

from: NodeCollection rootNodeCollection = store.Projects[tfsProject].IterationRootNodes;

to: NodeCollection rootNodeCollection = store.Projects[tfsProject].AreaRootNodes;

thanks for the code it was helpfull at my end.

Answer 3

OK - after some further digging, found the code below that iterates thru all the iterations, so using a subset of this, I will get what I needed :)

using System;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client;

namespace TFSIterationList
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string tfsServer = "tfs";
            string tfsProject = "Project Name";
            TeamFoundationServer tfs = TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer(tfsServer);
            WorkItemStore store = new WorkItemStore(tfsServer);
            PrintTreeNodeCount(store, tfsProject);
        }


        private static void PrintTreeNodeCount(WorkItemStore store, string tfsProject)
        {
            int iterationNodeCount = 0;
            NodeCollection rootNodeCollection = store.Projects[tfsProject].IterationRootNodes;
            GetChildNodeCount(rootNodeCollection, ref iterationNodeCount);
            Console.WriteLine(tfsProject + " Iteration nodes : " + iterationNodeCount);
         }

        private static void GetChildNodeCount(NodeCollection nodeCollection, ref int nodeCount)
        {
            nodeCount += nodeCollection.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < nodeCollection.Count; i++)
            {

                Console.WriteLine(nodeCollection[i].Id + " : " + nodeCollection[i].Path);
                // Console.WriteLine(nodeCollection[i].Name);

                if (nodeCollection[i].ChildNodes.Count > 0)
                {  
                // Recursively walk through the child nodes
                    GetChildNodeCount(nodeCollection[i].ChildNodes, ref nodeCount);
                }
            }
        }

    }
}

Answer 4

This can also be achieved by using Work Item Query Language (WIQL on MSDN).

With WIQL, you can query TFS. I used C#, but I believe this works with most/all .NET languages.

WorkItemStore workItemStore = (WorkItemStore)projectCollection.GetService(typeof(WorkItemStore));
WorkItemCollection queryResults = workItemStore.Query(
                    "Select [System.IterationID], [System.IterationPath] " +
                    "From WorkItems ORDER BY [System.IterationID]");

You could find a specific iterationID by adding a where clause to your query string:

+ " Where [System.IterationPath] = 'Path'");

---

The queryResults can be view by iterating through them:

foreach (WorkItem workitem in queryResults)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(workitem.IterationID);
            }