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These days I’m writing a tool for Visual Studio that integrates with Team Foundation Server. This post is about how to retrieve/fetch history of a file from source control server using TFS-SDK. Following function takes server name and file path as input and returns an enumerator holding Changeset objects.

public static IEnumerable FetchHistory(string serverName, string filePath)
{
TeamFoundationServer tfs = TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer(serverName);
VersionControlServer vcs = tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer)) as VersionControlServer;
ExtendedItem[] itemArray1 = vcs.GetExtendedItems(filePath, DeletedState.NonDeleted, ItemType.Any);

if ((itemArray1 == null) || (itemArray1.Length == 0))
throw new Exception(“There are no items.”);

ExtendedItem item1 = itemArray1[0];
IEnumerable enumerable1 = vcs.QueryHistory(filePath,
VersionSpec.Latest, item1.DeletionId,
(item1.ItemType == ItemType.Folder) ? RecursionType.Full : RecursionType.None,
“”, new ChangesetVersionSpec(1),
VersionSpec.Latest, 0×7fffffff, true, false);
return enumerable1;
}

To compile this successfully you also need to add references of following two assemblies found at [VS installation directory]\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\:

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll

Call to this function should be made as follows:

FetchHistory(“[serverName]”, “$/Project1/Class.cs” );

- Ankit