So you’ve created an awesome application that uses the TFS SDK to do all kinds of amazing and interesting data access, but it sure would be nice if you could click on a work item and open it in Team Web Access. You’d think this would be easily accomplished by appending “id=123” to the end of a query string. It’s not quite that straightforward, but the TFS SDK makes it pretty simple.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Add the appropriate TFS SDK references
   • Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client
   • Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common
   • Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client
2. Instantiate a TfsTeamProjectCollection
3. Retrieve the hyperlink service from the team project collection object
4. Retrieve the hyperlink from the hyperlink service by providing a work item ID

Here’s what the code will look like:

var tpc = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(
    new Uri("http://OurTfsServer:8080/tfs/OurCollection"));
var linkService = tpc.GetService();
var uri = linkService.GetWorkItemEditorUrl(workItemId);