Question

I installed linqpad a while ago and recently I came across some articles on how to use it to query against tfs. Basic queries like checkins and checkouts and things of that nature. I have had mostly success with running those queries. Then I see this website showing that it is possible to query against tfs with linqpad basically giving you the ability to do a codesearch with linqpad. So I spent a very good amount of time attempting to get this to work.

http://pascallaurin42.blogspot.com/2012/05/tfs-queries-searching-in-all-files-of.html

I must say this guy really has a good handle on utilizing linqpad to query tfs. What I am running into is when I run this I get the error stating that my version of tfs does not allow team branches…… I am really shooting in the dark on this one as I am no tfs expert, but this would be amazing if I could get this to work for tfs2008. Anyways any help or ideas on this is greatly appreciated….Thanks.

Answer 1

The versionControl.QueryRootBranchObjects() method isn’t supported against a TFS 2008 server because TFS 2008 doesn’t understand the concept of a “first-class” branch which was introduced in TFS 2010. However, you could still accomplish this by supplying your own list of branches.

For instance, if you replace lines 11-25 in the sample above with this code, it should work:

var teamBranches = new String[] { "$/project/Main", "$/project/Dev" };

filePatterns.Dump("File patterns");  
textPatterns.Dump("Text patterns");    

foreach (var teamBranch in teamBranches)   
    foreach (var filePattern in filePatterns)    
        foreach (var item in versionControl.GetItems(teamBranch + "/"     + filePattern, RecursionType.Full).Items)     

SearchInFile(item); 

Obviously, you will want to replace $/project/main and $/project/dev with the branches you would like to search.

Let me know if you have any questions.

EDIT

Because you are using TFS 2008 you will also need to tweak a few other lines. Instead of including

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client

Just include

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client

And instead of this line:

var tfs = TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory.GetTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("http://localhost:8088/tfs")); 

Try this

// Note, 2008 servers don't use "/tfs" and I can't remember if they take a Uri
// or a string.
var tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("http://localhost:8080");