TFS annotate/blame summary report for a project

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In Team Foundation Server, I know that you can use the Annotate feature to see who last edited each line in a particular file (equivalent to "Blame" in CVS). What I'd like to do is akin to running Annotate on every file in a project, and get a summary report of all the developers who have edited a file in the project, and how many lines of code they currently "own" in that project.

Aside from systematically running Annotate of each file, I can't see a way to do this. Any ideas that would make this process faster?

PS - I'm doing to this to see how much of a consultant's code still remains in a particular (rather large) project, not to keep tabs on my developers, in case you're worried about my motivation :)

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blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/13/annotate.aspx – Christopher Klein
thanks, @SqlRyan did you make the tool? – Quincy
@Quincy Wow, I can't believe this was 7 years ago - I've moved into a DBA role and I'm no longer a developer, so it turns out this actually was the last time I was going to have to do this :) That said, it is still interesting and on the list, but I never did end up making a utility that did it. It may even be native functionality now that they've had 4(?) more releases since this question was asked! – SqlRyan
Yeah your right. There is an excel report that has this functionality. Requires on-prem tfs but it works! – Quincy
@Quincy It would be great if someone shared a complete answer to this. ;-) How does your Excel report work? – jpaugh

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It's easy enough to use the "tf.exe history" command recursively across a directory of files in TFS. This will tell you who changed what files.

However what you're after is a little bit more than this - you want to know if the latest versions of any files have lines written by a particular user.

The Team Foundation Power Tools ship with a command-line version of annotate called "tfpt.exe annotate". This has a /noprompt option to direct the output to the console, but it only outputs the changeset id - not the user name.

You could also use the TFS VersionControl object model to write a tool that does exactly what you need.

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If you install the TFS Power tools (at least for VS2005); it's called annotate.

It might be part of VS2008...

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You can use TFS Analysis Cube to see generate a code churn report, which I believe is something you would like.

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Annotate is now part of Visual Studio (I think it was introduced in VS 2010).

Docs

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I'm writing an answer to an 8 year old question :). Its not really a full answer, but a suggestion to look into excel reports for TFS.

TFS2013 / 2015 on prem has something has an excel report that can be used to visualize Code Churn.

In VS open team explorer then select "Documents" then explode "Excel Reports". I believe Code Churn report has something like discussed. The report is made by some default project template so I think tfs2013 on prem just creates it.

Code Churn Excel Report VS2015 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd695782.aspx

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I had very similar requirement to get details of particular attribute in a file e.g. who added, when, related work items etc.; Following GitHub project is having implementation to get required details and required minimal changes to work with multiple files or project -

SonarQube SCM TFVC plugin

It requires analysis to be executed from Windows machines with the Team Foundation Server Object Model installed (download for TFS 2013).

This blog post is also having good explaination and sample application -

TFS SDK: Connecting to TFS 2010 & TFS 2012 Programmatically