Get List of Allowed Values in TFS Work Item Field

This is how you can obtain programmatically a list of allowed values in a TFS Work Item field (in the example below, in Priority field in Bug template):

TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("myTFServer");

WorkItemStore wis = (WorkItemStore)tfs.GetService(typeof(WorkItemStore));

Project teamProject = wis.Projects["myTeamProjectName"];

WorkItemType wit = teamProject.WorkItemTypes["Bug"];

 

FieldDefinition fd = wit.FieldDefinitions["Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority"];

AllowedValuesCollection avc = fd.AllowedValues;

 

foreach (var row in avc)

{

Console.WriteLine(row);

}