Using the changeset

In one of my previous posts, I showed an article which allows you to generate an automatic build number based on Date/Time. This generates a huge number (which is a bit of pain to work with).

In this post I will show you how to modify that code to modify that task to use the changeset number as the build number (which is virtually incremental in a CI environment).

Simply reference the Team Foundation Server Assemblies required for the following using statements:

using Microsoft.Build.Utilities;
using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client;

And now simply use this little method to get the changeset number:

private int GetLatestChangeSetId()
{           
            // Get a reference to our Team Foundation Server.              
            string tfsName = @"http://myserver:8080";           
            TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer(tfsName);
            // Get a reference to Version Control.              
            VersionControlServer versionControl = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
            int latestChangesetId = versionControl.GetLatestChangesetId();
            return latestChangesetId;
}