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TFS API Part 49 – Delete Team Project

There are many improvements in TFS API for 2012 version, in my previous post I’ve talked about TFS API Part 48 – WorkItemControl And Bypass Work Item Rules that allow work item creation with bypass rule mode in WorkItemStore that allow you to create and change any field value without applying the WorkItem template rules. in this post I’ll show how to delete Team Project using TFS API, be aware Delete Team Project is unrecoverable! Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect TFS and Getting Team Projects...

TFS API Part 47 (VS11) – Manage Iterations Dates

Tweet Over the last posts I talked about “ TFS API Part 46 (VS11) – Team Settings ”, in this post I’ll show how to get and change Iteration Dates from TFS API. We’ll show all Teams under a specific Team Project and once you click on a Team you will see its Iterations and Dates. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF application and add the following references: First add reference for: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client (11.0.0.0) Microsoft.TeamFoundation...

TFS API Part 46 (VS11) – Team Settings

Tweet In the previous posts “ TFS API Part 45 (VS11) – Modify Teams and Team Members ” I talked about Teams, from getting all team to modify and creating new Team using TFS API. Now, Teams are more than just a “Security Group”, they hold specific settings such as relevant Areas/Iteration for that Team. The “Team” can be assigned to Backlog Iteration (Set as Team’s backlog Iteration), this takes all paths under that iteration and add them to the team backlog. You can also change the Iteration backlog...

TFS API Part 45 (VS11) – Modify Teams and Team Members

Tweet In my previous post “ Teams and Team Members ”  I talked about new Service in TFS API called – TfsTeamService. Using this service we can control Teams and Team Members under TFS. We can create and remove Teams and Team Members using TFS API. I know this can be quite confusing but Teams in TFS are simply Group (Security Group), same as Contributors, Administrators etc. If you open Security tab under TFS Web Management you can see that there is two separate lists of Groups – Teams and TFS...