How can I programmatically check-out an item for edit in TFS?

Question

I\'m working on a utility processing files being under source control using TFS 2010.

If an item is not yet checked-out for edit, I\'m getting an exception, what is

Answer 1

First get the workspace

var tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("http://server:8080/tfs/collection");
var version = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
var workspace = version.GetWorkspace("WORKSPACE-NAME", version.AuthorizedUser);

With the workspace you can checkout the file

workspace.PendEdit(fileName);