Based on the feedback received for the first version of TFS Quick Search I’ve modified it and here is the TFS Quick Search 1.2.0:

Changes in TFS Quick Search 1.2

• Support for VS2008 and VS2005
• Improved code (slightly faster searches)
• Highlight of the currently found item while searching
  
• Enter exits the search box and focuses on the selection

You can download TFS Quick Search 1.2 from the project’s homepage.

 Working lately more and more with TFS I got a bit frustrated on scrolling in a long list of Tasks/Work Items/Issues to find for “that one task” that has a specific word in its description so I decided to write a small plugin to make my life easier.

Based on the Hawkeye core and the Dynamic Extenders that Hawkeye support I’ve build TFS Quick Search Plugin:

The plugin will add a small (and red) search text box to all TFS result windows. You can simply type a keyword in there and the first TFS Item that contains that keyword in its title will be selected in the results view. Pressing F3 will search and select the next occurrence of the specified keyword.

Prefixing the text you enter with the “#” symbol will execute the search in the “ID” column. So entering “#4581″ will select the item with ID 4581.

For more details and installation instructions visit TFS Quick Search Project page.