How to get a list of defects in QC11.0 via C# OTA using BugFilter

Question

I have successfully connected to QC using VBscript via the OTA interface. In VbScript I had the following code to filter out defects and get load them in a list.

BugFilter.Filter("BG_STATUS") = "Not Canceled and NOT Closed" 
BugFilter.Filter("BG_PROJECT") = "Business*"


Set BugList = BugFilter.NewList()

The above worked flawlessly in Vbscript.

In C#.NET (4.0), I am able to connect to QC successfully but when I try to apply the filter , it give me a error..

TDConnection qcc = new TDConnection();
qcc.InitConnectionEx(sr);

qcc.ConnectProjectEx("XXXX", "------", "----", "-----");

            if (qcc.Connected)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("connected");
                BugFactory bf = (BugFactory)qcc.BugFactory;



                bf.Filter["BG_STATUS"] = "Not Canceled and NOT Closed";
                bf.Filter["BG_PROJECT"] = "Business*";

                List bugs = (List)bf.NewList(bf.Filter); 

on the last line of code , it gives me the following error "Could not convert argument 0 for call to NewList."

I am relative new to C#, Can anybody help me here?

Answer 1

I usually pass a string into the bug factory by using the .Text property of the Filter object rather than the filter object itself.

For example, I've had success with handling the filtering like this:

var tdFilter = (TDFilter)bf_filter;
tdFilter["BG_STATUS"] = "Not Canceled and NOT Closed";
tdFilter["BG_PROJECT"] = "Business*";
var bugs = bf.NewList(tdFilter.Text);

Answer 2

Try bg.Filter.text()

You'd need to check the method, 'cause I do that in java. But there is a method by that name. How I normally do that is like this:

List bugs = (List)bg.NewList();