Programmatically access TFS annotations to determine owner - visual-studio

Question

I'm working on a project team and our application is in TFS. I'm attempting to determine how many lines of code each team member is responsible. In TFS, I'm aware of the Annotate feature in the Visual Studio interface which allows you to see who last modified each line of code so I know TFS has this information.
I've written a small console app which accesses my TFS project and all its files, but I now need to programmatically access annotations so I can see who the owner of each line is. Here is my existing code:
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client;
public class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password, domain);
var server = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(serverUrl), credentials);
var version = server.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer)) as VersionControlServer;
var items = version.GetItems(projectPath, RecursionType.Full);
var fileItems = items.Items.Where(x => x.ItemType == ItemType.File);
foreach (var fileItem in fileItems)
{
var serverItem = fileItem.ServerItem;
//TODO: retrieve and parse annotations
}
}
}
I can't seem to figure out how to retrieve annotations once I have the TFS item. This link explains how to do it by calling TFPT, but after implementing it (tfpt annotate /noprompt <filename>), you are only give the last changeset and code per line, not the owner.
I also found a Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server namespace that has an Annotation class. I installed TFS on my machine to have access to that DLL, but it doesn't seem like it is of any help to this problem.
How can you programmatically access TFS annotations to determine the owner of a line of code for a file?

Answer 1

You may have to query the branch when a Item's change type is Branch.
For a simple example, there is a scenario
$/Project
/Main`
/a.txt
/Develop
/a.txt (branched from main)
When you query the history of $/project/Develop/a.txt, you can also get the history of $/project/Main/a.txt using following code
void GetAllHistory(string serverItem)
{
var changesets=vcs.QueryHistory(serverItem,
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionSpec.Latest,
0,
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.RecursionType.None,
null,
new Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ChangesetVersionSpec(1),
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionSpec.Latest,
int.MaxValue,
true,
false);
foreach (var obj in changesets)
{
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Changeset cs = obj as Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Changeset;
if (cs == null)
{
return;
}
foreach (var change in cs.Changes)
{
if (change.Item.ServerItem != serverItem)
{
return;
}
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("ChangeSetID:{0}\tFile:{1}\tChangeType:{2}", cs.ChangesetId,change.Item.ServerItem, change.ChangeType));
if ((change.ChangeType & Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ChangeType.Branch) == Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ChangeType.Branch)
{
var items=vcs.GetBranchHistory(new Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ItemSpec[]{new Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ItemSpec(serverItem, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.RecursionType.None)},
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionSpec.Latest);
GetAllHistory(items[0][0].Relative.BranchToItem.ServerItem);
}
}
}
}