I want to pick all workitem from TFS using .wiq file,But getting errors while doing so - powershell-ise

Question

Below is piece of code.
{
# Load required assemblies
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client")
# Wiq Path
$WiqPath = $PSScriptRoot+"\"+$wiqFile
try
{
# Get TFS server and query from WIQ file
[xml]$WiqlXML = Get-Content $WiqPath
[String]$TFSservername = $WiqlXML | % {$_.WorkItemQuery.TeamFoundationServer}
[String]$queryString = $WiqlXML | % {$_.WorkItemQuery.Wiql}
Write-Host "TFS path is: " $TFSservername "`r`n"
$teamProjectCollection = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TfsTeamProjectCollectionFactory]::GetTeamProjectCollection($TFSservername)
# Get workitem collection from TFS Project
$ws = $teamProjectCollection.GetService([type][Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.WorkItemStore])
# If user has passed explicitly Ids
if($workItemIds)
{
$workIs = $workItemIds.Split(',')
# collection of workitem objects
$wis = #()
foreach($wi in $workIs)
{
$wis += $ws.getworkitem($wi)
}
}
# If user hasn't passed Ids, taking Workitem Ids from wiqFile
else
{
$wis = $ws.Query($queryString)
}
# Pass Default credentials. Make sure whoever is running script, have access on TFS project
[Net.WebClient] $request = New-Object Net.WebClient
$request.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
}
Exception details :-
Caught an exception:
Exception Type: System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException
Exception Message: Exception calling "Query" with "1" argument(s): "The specified variable does not exist. The error is caused by «#project»."

Answer 1

I had the same issue. As a workaround, I replaced the #project field with the project name from Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.Project-object. In your case you should also add the project name to WIQ file. Otherwise if the project name is constant, you could just replace it with your project name:
$projectName = "MyTfsProject"
$queryString = $queryString -replace "#project", ("'{0}'" -f $projectName)