How do I associate a review request with multiple changesets in TFS 2012

Question

Our development process works like this: Every 2 weeks the team lead (me) goes in and reviews everyone\'s changesets to make sure they are up to the coding standards. I would li

Answer 1

1. Unsolicited, no.
2. You can rightclick a changset in the history screen to request a review post checkin.

And there is a nasty workaround to get what you want to achieve. Check out all files you want to review and request a review. You can then undo your checkout, the shelveset and the review request will remain.

Alternatively you can just go to the source control tab and do a checkout-all on the rootfolder of your solution, request the review, undo your checkout and do the review.

As for linking changesets to a Work Item, this can be done post checkin. Open the work item, go to the links tab and click "Link to..." The dropdown there will have a "Changeset" option. But I don't think this link type is enabled for Code Review Requests, since these use a Shelveset and not a set of changesets as the source for the code to review.

I expect you could use the TFS API to generate a shelveset with all the changes from a specific developer in a given timerange, put these on a shelveset and request a review on that. But no existing feature to do that exists.

Or you might be able to edit the shelveset of associated to the review by creating a new one with the same name.