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Gabriel Chiarelli
Gabriel Chiarelli

Reputation: 53

Perform action client-side when TFS work item is saved in VS 2013

Goal: Capture the event raised when a TFS work item is saved in the Visual Studio UI, and prompt the user to send a boilerplate email to the person that the item is assigned to.

Issue: I'm unable to ascertain how to go about doing this. I've started a VS extension project, as that seemed like the most promising route, but from there I don't know where to look for the the window I need, or how to reliably subscribe to the saving event when such a window is open.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 189

Answers (1)

chief7
chief7

Reputation: 14393

I think you will have to write a Visual Studio extension to create that type of functionality. Its not impossible but also not for the faint of heart. :)

It seems like your use case may be better served by TFS Notifications?

Set alerts, get notified when changes occur

UPDATE:

Another option may be to use TFS events via a web service, which looks much easier than a VS extensions - http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2010/08/02/How-to-use-WCF-to-subscribe-to-the-TFS-2010-Event-Service-rolling-up-hours.aspx

Upvotes: 1

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