Creating a report for linked work items...

Question

We are using TFS 2012 and need to create a report (either excel or SSRS) that shows all the user stories under the current sprint and any linked child items across two projects. I can do this easily per project in VS and open it in excel but excel won't
let me copy/paste two projects work items in one spreadsheet. I tried searching and found a few suggestions but they don't seem to work.
TIA,
Vik

Answer 1

Hi Vik,  
Thanks for your post.
We suggest you create a such report using TFS API. Please refer to below code snippet:
            TfsTeamProjectCollection tfs = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("UrI"));
            tfs.EnsureAuthenticated();
            WorkItemStore workitemstore = tfs.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
            string wiql ="SELECT * FROM WorkItems WHERE [System.TeamProject] = 'TeamProject' ORDER BY [System.Id] ";
            WorkItemCollection wic = workitemstore.Query(wiql);
            foreach(WorkItem workitem in wic)
            if(workitem.Links.Count!=0)
                foreach (Link link in workitem.Links)
                    RelatedLink relatedLink = link as RelatedLink;
                    if (relatedLink != null)
                        Console.WriteLine(relatedLink.RelatedWorkItemId);
You can create your custom work item query to return all the parent work items, then save this query as a .wiq file in local path, then open this .wiq file and you will find the wiql string in it.
For more information about work item query TFS API, please refer to:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130306.aspx.
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