We are developing an add-in that turns our MS Word documented requirements into Categorized Work Items in VSTS. However, while we can use the Object Model to create the Work Items, the Area and Iteration Node Paths do not seem accessible via the OM.

We are trying to be good people and do not really want to be editing the Database directly, so can you please advise if it is possible to create Area/Iteration Nodes using the TFS Object Model?

Many Thanks

Greg

I appreciate what you are saying and this is completley true for the Work Items, but I actually want to create Area and Iteration Nodes, and at present there is no way (that we can find) using the object Model to do this, we can do it using the Web Service though (as with just about everything else ;-))

Thanks

Greg

Here is some sample code for creating areas & iterations nodes:

TeamFoundationServer tfs = TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer(server);
m_css = (ICommonStructureService)tfs.GetService(typeof(ICommonStructureService));

// Get the area Uri.
ProjectInfo projectInfo = m_css.GetProjectFromName(project);
String areaUri = LimitUtil.GetCssStructure(m_css, projectInfo.Uri, LimitUtil.StructureType.Areas).Uri;

String node = m_css.CreateNode("Node" + i.ToString(), areaUri);