Hidden Gems in TFS – Part 12 – Link to Versioned Item

February 27, 2014 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on Hidden Gems in TFS – Part 12 – Link to Versioned Item

In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are available in Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio or some of the Powertools.

Some features are available as a Powertool. These can be downloaded from here

Earlier Posts

In this part……a hidden gem that I did not write myself but one that was written by my friend and colleague Jasper Gilhuis.

Link to a versioned Item

Jasper Gilhuis

This post is and addition to René van Osnabrugge’s great series of Hidden Gems in TFS. An overview of these Gems can be found at his blog “The Road to ALM” here: https://osnabrugge.wordpress.com/category/guidance/hidden-gems/

Just last week he showed me something that made me smile. His first response was “this has been around since… (I think we mentioned TFS 2005!!)

So what was it? We were talking on our Product Backlog, when he asked “Didn’t you create a document for that?” I replied “Yes I did!, it’s in source control, the path is in the workitem description”, something like $Team ProjectFolderFolderDocument.docx.

He looked at me quite surprised and said “Did you know you can link to a Version Controled Item if you want?!”

Hidden Gem 12 - Link to Versioned Item

VersionedItem

I thought it was worth a little post 🙂

Guess I will link to Version Controlled Item from now!

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