Subscribing to TFS notifications without implementing a client Web Service

re: Subscribing to TFS notifications without implementing a client Web Service

martinwoodward — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:47:23 GMT

Nice one! I was just about to do a similar thing and you've saved me a tonne of time.

On of the things to watch out for when doing this type of application is handling machine crashes. As you know, If you don't tidy up the subscriptions properly then the server will log plenty of errors to the event log. I know you have the unsubscribe code in your finally statement, but a tactic I like to follow is to query for subscriptions on start up and remove any if they exist before creating them again. (especially when the subscription code is running on a machine that may loose its network connection or not be attached to a UPS...)

Anyway - good job! Thanks for sharing.

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Subscribing to TFS notifications using SOAP without a web service

Team Foundation - Version Control Server Team — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:28:23 GMT

Team Foundation Server provides an event notification mechanism via SOAP or email delivery. My post below

FAQ on VSTS subscriptions and common problems

Naren's Blog — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:55:08 GMT

I was collecting links & pointers to answer common questions in forums related to TFS eventing and

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re: Subscribing to TFS notifications without implementing a client Web Service

Jason — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:11:35 GMT

Has anyone tried this with TFS2008? I noticed the post date of 2006 and was wondering if the SOAP response was still formatted the same.