TFS API Pending Items, Exclude list, Include List

Question

Background,

I am making a TFS merge tool to service out development and Branch requirements.

Withing this tool I have a business object layer that uses the Microsoft.Teamfoundation.ExtendedClient Package.

What I have

I currently have a function that does the checkin for my pending items

The 'changes' object has all my changes in it. Included and Excluded

 Workspace workspace = _vcs.GetWorkspace(_workspaceName, _workspaceOwner);
 WorkItemCheckinInfo checkInInfo = new WorkItemCheckinInfo(pbi, WorkItemCheckinAction.Associate);
 PendingChange[] changes = workspace.GetPendingChanges();
 ChangesetID = workspace.CheckIn(changes, checkInComment, null, new WorkItemCheckinInfo[] { 
 checkInInfo }, null);

What I need I need to only get his list of 'Included' Pending changes.

Some have suggested using, bu this fails as ITS only has zero rows.

//get all candidate changes and promote them to included changes
PendingChange[] candidateChanges = null;
string serverPath = workspace.GetServerItemForLocalItem(_workspaceName);
List<ItemSpec> its = new List<ItemSpec>();
its.Add(new ItemSpec(serverPath, RecursionType.Full));
workspace.GetPendingChangesWithCandidates(its.ToArray(), true, out candidateChanges);

    foreach (var change in candidateChanges)
    {
      if (change.IsAdd)
      {
        //ws.PendAdd(change.LocalItem);
      }
      else if (change.IsDelete)
      {
        //ws.PendDelete(change.LocalItem);
      }
    }

I have also tried this but SavedCheckin = null and i get an exception.

    SavedCheckin savedCheckin = workspace.LastSavedCheckin;
    //  Create a list of pending changes.
    var pendingAdds = new List<PendingChange>(workspace.GetPendingChanges());
    List<PendingChange> excludedChanges = new List<PendingChange>();
    for (int i = 0; i <= changes.Length - 1; i++)
    {
      if (savedCheckin.IsExcluded(changes[i].ServerItem))
      {
        excludedChanges.Add(changes[i]);
      }
      Console.WriteLine(changes[i].LocalItem.ToString() + " Change  " + changes[i].ChangeType)
    }

So I either need to iterate through the 'changes' list and remove 'Excluded' items

or there is bound to be something im missing here.

thanks in advance

Alan

Does this answer your question? [how do I determine what items are included pending check-ins programatically?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26168976/how-do-i-determine-what-items-are-included-pending-check-ins-programatically) — Shayki Abramczyk, Dec 08 '19 at 08:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '19 at 06:14

There is no TFS API to get only Included changes, Included/Excluded changes sections exist in Visual Studio/Team Explorer. Visual Studio detects changes you make outside the system.

What you need is Visual Studio Extension API -- IPendingChangesExt Interface, you could refer to the article below or open a case on Visual Studio Extension side.

https://www.mztools.com/articles/2015/MZ2015007.aspx

TFS API Pending Items, Exclude list, Include List

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