ChangesetViewer

Changeset Viewer

After install you should be able to access the plugin from Menu - View - Other Windows - Changeset Viewer or from Team Explorer 

Features:

1. Search based on comment
2. Search comment on exact or keyword match
3. Search based on user
4. Search based on date range (even from or to date independently)
5. Quick search for dates, current date, one week, one month
6. Search in particular branch
7. All the above can be combined
8. Add ticket link in the comment
9. Go to a particular changeset
10. Navigates to changeset information which opens in VS (changeset number has link)
11. Export the search result to excel spreadsheet

Use case (some):

1. Search changeset checked in today or last one week or last one month in a particular branch
2. Search based on ticket number and find how many changesets are related to that
3. Search based on user and with some feature mentioned in the comment
4. Search based on a date range
5. Search based on reviewer
6. Find tickets and read about the tickets easily (tickets can have hyperlink as configured in the settings)

Changeset Viewer is only available when Visual Studio is connected to TFS. Tfs Servers can be changed at any time, on which the plugin will automatically refresh. Exporting to excel has a predefined template, future release will have customised template.

Settings Page (Tools -> Options -> Changeset Viewer)

1. Item search Regex, comes with a default regex to search patterns like ABC-1233, can be altered based on the requirement
2. Item link, once there is any matching text found, then it will have this hyperlink and appends the matching text in {0} position. Example: Changeset has a comment “Changes to fix problem mentioned in ABC-1234. Also fixes few minor issues related to UI and audit of the parent page" ABC-1234 will have the hyperlink http://www.giveninthesettings.com/some/abc-1234