TFS Quick Search Plugin
December 1, 2007 5:29 pm .Net, Hawkeye, Readify, TFS, Visual StudioWorking 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.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:29 am
Nice work Corneliu – is a VS2008 version coming?]
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:23 am
Yes, I hope to have one ready by the end of the week. I need to install VS2008 to debug the plugin.]
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Will you also have one that searches the contents of the task/work item instead of just the title also?]
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I’ll do it. Which fields do you want to be searched for?
Description. Which else?]
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Comments would be nice.
And not to be a pain but sometimes we assign tasks from one person to another, but would it be simple to add searching of the History to search for example for when an item was ever assigned to you in the past?]
January 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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August 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am
I need the current code of quick search
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 am
Thanks – works great!