Question

I’ve heard that it’s not possible, but I figured I’d ask here and get a definitive answer. Is there a way to use the Team Foundation Server 2010 SDK to programatically create a new project in a collection?

So far, all I’ve seen is to use this method of scripting the VS 2010 IDE: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/granth/archive/2009/09/25/scripting-team-project-creation-in-tfs2010.aspx. Ugly.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there’s a better way. Ideas?

Answer 1

You can use this instead of the command line:

string log = @"C:\Builds\tfsLog.txt";
string settingsFilePath = @"C:\TeamProjects\TeamProjectSettings.xml";
var batchTeamProjectCreator = new BatchTeamProjectCreator();
var succes = batchTeamProjectCreator.BatchCreateTeamProject(settingsFilePath, out log);

you’ll need to add a reference to this dll:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.TeamExplorer.dll

You will still need to use the xml, but its a bit more elegant.

Hope this is what you where looking for. 🙂

Good luck,
Oshry