Export TFS 2010 History to Excel or Text Document

Question

How do you export history from TFS 2010 that includes the user, date and the complete comment (not truncated)?

For example, in Team Explorer: right-click team member

Answer 1

The easiest way is to connect to the TFSWharehouse from excel, then pull the data from the source control history in a excel sheet. This is really simple and very powerful.

You'll find useful info here: http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/getting_started.html

Edit:

Using the TFS API to enumerate the changesets when you don't have access to SSAS (e.g. tfspreview.com for instance):

TeamProjectPicker tpp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.SingleProject, true);
tpp.ShowDialog();

var tpc = tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;

VersionControlServer versionControl = tpc.GetService();

var tp = versionControl.GetTeamProject("MyTeamProject");
var path = tp.ServerItem;

var q = versionControl.QueryHistory(path, VersionSpec.Latest, 0, RecursionType.Full, null, new ChangesetVersionSpec(1), VersionSpec.Latest, Int32.MaxValue, false, true, false, false);

foreach (Changeset cs in q)
{
    var user = cs.Owner;
    var comment = cs.Comment;
    var date = cs.CreationDate;

    Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("[{3}] Date: {0}, User: {1}, Comment {2}", date, user, comment, cs.ChangesetId));
}