TFS view history in VS2010 for all files within the solution

Question

I am trying to view the history in Visual Studio 2010 for all files included in this solution file through View Solution Solution. I use TFS 2010 for version control, and I know that I can get the history for a folder recursively in Source Control Explorer. My problem is that we have several projects in the root directory, all of which are included in many decision files in the same directory (each solution file is a component that can be deployed, including “common code” among itself). I just want to see the history of all the files included in this solution file, and not everything in this root directory. When I right-click on a solution or project in Solution Explorer and "View History", I just get the history for this solution file or project file, nothing more.

Answer 1

Alas, this cannot be done with TFS as it is.

TFS source control does not know if the file is a solution file or a text document. He just keeps it for you. There is no parsing at all. I can (and do) store Delphi project files in TFS. TFS cannot understand and be sure of every type of file that exists.

It would be nice if Solution Explorer did this for you (as it is specific to your project). But this is not so.

You can create a custom plugin for TFS and Visual Studio to do what you ask for, but it will probably take longer than just manually checking the history of all the files in your solution.

Answer 2

It may help, it is an extension of the extension VS 2010 and VS 2012