How to connect To TFS EventService with SOAP in easy steps - soap

Question

I can't seem to find how to connect to the TFS EventService SOAP, I think I should make a service which gets called by TFS with stuff as parameters with which I can work with...
But I'm not finding anything like that on the internet.
The only thing I've found is this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507647.aspx
Which seems old and deprecated.
I'm using tfs2012 and vs2012.
#Edit: The idea is to hook up to the WorkItemStatusChange and to the CheckIn events.

Answer 1

I use an interface for my services (same for TFS2010 and TFS2012)
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
namespace TFS_Event_Services
{
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/Notification/03")]
public interface ITFS_Event_Services
{
[OperationContract(Action = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/Notification/03/Notify")]
[XmlSerializerFormat(Style = OperationFormatStyle.Document)]
[WebInvoke(Method="Notify")]
void Notify(string eventXml, string tfsIdentityXml);
}
}
So my .svc looks like this:
namespace TFS_Event_Services
{
public class TFS_Event_Services_2012 : ITFS_Event_Services
{
public void Notify(string eventXml, string tfsIdentityXml)
{
//do something with the Event
}
}
}
The .svc markup:
<%# ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="TFS_Event_Services.TFS_Event_Services_2012" CodeBehind="TFS_Event_Services_2012.svc.cs" %>
After creating your web service you need to publish it on some IIS which is the target of TFS alert soap call, of course.