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Custom TFS Task to Change WorkItem State

I recently had to create a custom task to update the state all work items associated with a changeset were in. Here is the code I came up with to accomplish this. First we start of by creating a general class that includes a few properties. The properties will allow us to pass in variables to the task. LocalPath and BuildURI are variables which TFS build provides for you. I also included the using statements you need to have for this task. 1: using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; 2: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; 3: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client; 4: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client; 5: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client; 6:   7:   8: namespace MyCustomStuff.TFS.Tasks 9: { 10: public class UpdateWorkItemStatus : Task 11: { 12: // A value for each one of these properties must be supplied i