Visual Studio 2015 build drop location

Question

Our company recently updated TFS to 2015 update 1. After that context menu item named Drop folder disappeared from completed builds. I found nothing about it and how to bring it back. When I click Open on completed build, VS opens web version of TFS where I forced to click through the menus and copy drop folder path manually. So I decided to write a simple extension that will add this item to the menu.
Some googling brought me to this page . But it seems that the example code is quite old and not working in VS2015:

IVsTeamFoundationBuild vsTfBuild = (IVsTeamFoundationBuild)GetService(typeof(IVsTeamFoundationBuild));
IBuildDetail[] builds = vsTfBuild.BuildExplorer.CompletedView.SelectedBuilds;

Property SelectedBuilds is always empty. I suppose that it relates to old window from VS2010. It returns items that are instance of IBuildDetail interface.
So I found this piece of code here :

var teamExplorer = (ITeamExplorer)ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITeamExplorer));
var page = teamExplorer.CurrentPage;
var buildsPageExt = (IBuildsPageExt)page.GetExtensibilityService(typeof(IBuildsPageExt));
var build = buildsPageExt.SelectedBuilds[0];

Here build is the instance of IBuildModel interface. It lacks DropLocation property.

Is there any way to found drop location of selected build? Or maybe latest build?

Answer 1

You can use IBuildDedetail.DropLocation in .NET client libraries for Visual Studio Team Services (and TFS) . Basic code for your reference:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;

namespace BuildAPI
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string project = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx";
            TfsTeamProjectCollection tpc = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(project));
            IBuildServer ibs = tpc.GetService<IBuildServer>();
            var builds = ibs.QueryBuilds("TeamProjectName");
            foreach (IBuildDetail ibd in builds)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ibd.DropLocation);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

So, after digging through TFS API, I ended up with this workaround.

    private void MenuItemCallback(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var context = (ITeamFoundationContextManager)ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITeamFoundationContextManager));
        IBuildServer buildServer = context.CurrentContext.TeamProjectCollection.GetService<IBuildServer>();
        var teamExplorer = (ITeamExplorer)ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITeamExplorer));
        var buildsPageExt = (IBuildsPageExt)teamExplorer.CurrentPage.GetExtensibilityService(typeof(IBuildsPageExt));
        var menuCommand = (MenuCommand)sender;

        if (menuCommand.CommandID.Guid == CommandSetCompleted)
        {
            foreach (var buildDetail in buildsPageExt.SelectedBuilds)
                Process.Start("explorer.exe", GetBuild(buildServer, buildDetail).DropLocation);
        }

        if (menuCommand.CommandID.Guid == CommandSetFavorite)
        {
            var definitions = buildsPageExt.SelectedFavoriteDefinitions.Concat(buildsPageExt.SelectedXamlDefinitions).ToArray();

            foreach (var build in GetLatestSuccessfulBuild(buildServer, definitions))
                Process.Start("explorer.exe", build.DropLocation);
        }
    }

    private IBuildDetail GetBuild(IBuildServer buildServer, IBuildModel buildModel)
    {
        Uri buildUri = new Uri(buildModel.GetType().GetProperty("UriToOpen").GetValue(buildModel).ToString());
        return buildServer.GetBuild(buildUri);
    }

    private IBuildDetail[] GetLatestSuccessfulBuild(IBuildServer buildServer, IDefinitionModel[] buildDefinitions)
    {
        var spec = buildServer.CreateBuildDetailSpec(buildDefinitions.Select(bd => bd.Uri));
        spec.MaxBuildsPerDefinition = 1;
        spec.QueryOrder = BuildQueryOrder.FinishTimeDescending;
        spec.Status = BuildStatus.Succeeded;

        var builds = buildServer.QueryBuilds(spec);

        return builds.Builds;
    }