title: Retrieving work items and their linked work items in a single query using the TFS APIs
body: <p>Does anyone know if it is possible to retrieve a list of work items and their <strong>linked work items</strong> in one trip from TFS using their TFS API web services? </p>
  
  <p>At the moment, we are having to make a second call for each of the work items made during the first call, and is introducing a performace issue.</p>
  
  <p>If that is not possibly, is there a way to peek at the type of the linked work item without retrieving them (e.g. See if it is a task or issue) ?</p>