Find which WorkItems are Code Reviews using the TFS API

Question

Given a list of WorkItems, I would like to find the instances that correspond to a Code Review using the TFS 2015 API in C#.

While I can see from the text of the Description whether a WorkItem is a Code Review, I would prefer avoid parsing that string and rely on something more robust (eg: WorkItem.Type)...

How would you do that (the Type value seems quite cryptic to me)?

Answer 1

You could use the method below to get a workitem's type. But you need to provide the workitem id.

using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client;

        Uri collectionUri = (args.Length < 1) ?
            new Uri("http://servername:8080/tfs/MyCollection") : new Uri(args[0]);

        // Connect to the server and the store. 
        TfsTeamProjectCollection teamProjectCollection =
           new TfsTeamProjectCollection(collectionUri);

         WorkItemStore workItemStore = teamProjectCollection.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
        string queryString = "Select [State], [Title],[Description] From WorkItems Where [Work Item Type] = 'Code Review Request' or [Work Item Type] = 'Code Review Response'";

        // Create and run the query.
        Query query = new Query(workItemStore, queryString);
        WorkItemCollection witCollection = query.RunQuery();

        foreach (WorkItem workItem in witCollection)
        {
            workItem.Open();
            Console.WriteLine(workItem.Fields["Title"].Value.ToString());

        }