Search Work Items, Team System Addin

live like (or google like) keyword search tool for workitems

Naren's Blog — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:18:08 GMT

It is popular request in WIT forums for a tool where keywords can be typed to search across all fields

(More easily) search your work items!

James Manning's blog — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:27:18 GMT

Know-a-Code posts up a neat little VS add-in that lets you do a free-text search on your work items !

VSTS Add In - Search Work Items

Archi — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:27:56 GMT

Finally a great Add In that provides keyword search to be searched across all fields in all workitems....

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Raimond Brookman — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:43:50 GMT

Installed it and am very happy with it. Thanks a lot! Another bullet being removed from my own ToDo list :-)

Just one possible extra feature: being able to search with more restrictions, for instance searching only "open" work items and ignore closed etc.

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Raimond Brookman — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:45:22 GMT

Ignore my previous comment :-)

I RTFM'ed

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Dave — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:02:47 GMT

Does this work with SP1? I have just installed it on WinXP and when loading VS2005 it throws an exception and asks to remove the add in.

VSTS Links - 03/12/2007

Team System News — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:10:53 GMT

Tim Hibbard on TFS Work Item Management Outlook Addin. Noah Coad on Search Work Items, Team System...

Noah's Search Work Items Team System Addin

Willy-Peter Schaub — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:32:17 GMT

Check Noah's post on http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2007/03/08/sea... , which publishes an addin

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Bertrand Huard — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:25:07 GMT

My undertanding of the search of history is that it only searches for comments that where entered in that field (it will not search for contents of other fields, for example the description of the field.).

So basically you would need to add more Or statement for Description and anything other common field

Ideally a search of history would search all the contents.

A work item search tool

Teams WIT Tools — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:08:44 GMT

Check out this blog post for a work item search tool http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2007/03/08/search-work-items-team-system-addin.aspx

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Gregg Boer — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:13:15 GMT

Referenced from http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/default.aspx

Cool tool!

Searching Work Items

Omar Villarreal's WebLog — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:31:51 GMT

Many people ask for Work Item Queries to be interactive, to prompt the user for parameters. Noah Coad...

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Craig Lebowitz — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:22:26 GMT

Great little tool my company is using it now. Thanks a lot Noah.

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re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Tilfried Weissenberger — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:38:24 GMT

Would be great if it would treat each entered word as separate CONTAINS and honors phrases. ie:

"build failure" copy type:bug

would find the phrase "build failure" and the word "copy" only in items of WIT "Bug"

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

William Bartholomew — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:57:54 GMT

For those wanting to bundle this toolbar as part of another installer or do an unattended installation the command:

msiexec.exe /qb /i SearchWorkItems.msi

will suppress the installer launching a web browser to this page.

Some cool announcements on Team System

Marcel de Vries, MVP Team System — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:50:43 GMT

Just to summarize some great new cool things that are happening in the team system space. First of all

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Leon Grave — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:23:09 GMT

I tried your add-in.

It installed without any problems, but I don't have the extra toolbar or the extra menuitems in the team menu.

It also doesn't show up in the add-in manager.

Any ideas?

Btw, I'm running Windows XP, VS2005 SP1 agains a TFS SP1 server.

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In my quest to blog a little review of most of my favorite apps, I come to SnagIt by TechSmith. SnagIt

Imprescindible: búsqueda libre de Work Items en TFS

La masa, el ladrillo, la bota, el bocadillo... — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:39:05 GMT

Una funcionalidad que llevo mucho tiempo echando en falta en el Team Explorer es la posibilidad de buscar

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Craig Lebowitz — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:35:14 GMT

Has anyone else seen the textbox in this app's toolbar disappear? I reinstalled and it's still an empty toolbar widget.

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re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Jeremie — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:59:52 GMT

I have other fields besides the Work Item ID that are strictly number. These are mostly for integration with other systems. It would be nice to be able to search these fields as well instead of all numbers are automatically considered Work Item IDs.

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Joshua — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:02:49 GMT

Hi Noah,

This feature is great. Two issues:

1. Can you add a 'run' button for the mouse?

2. Doing a text search runs on ALL projects even when a specific project is selected.

Thanks

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Martin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:26:33 GMT

Great little tool. Just works. Should be part of the product :-)

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paso — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:30:51 GMT

I really like the tool and want to use it also in the VS2008 beta but I can't seem to get the Orcas version running.

After the installation finishes, it tries to download/run the setupSearchWorkItemsVS05.zip.

I can see the entry in the Program Files \Coadnet folder, but I can not find the toolbar in VS or see the entry in the Team menu

Any idea what may be wrong or how to find out ?

BTW: The installer spells "Oracs"

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Ryan — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:53:38 GMT

I used the --template command and it worked great, but now I want to tweak my template again and the --template command no longer works...Any suggestions?

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markovich — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:53:31 GMT

Installed it and am very happy with it. Thanks a lot! Another bullet being removed from my own ToDo list :-)

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markovich — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:56:52 GMT

After the installation finishes, it tries to download/run the setupSearchWorkItemsVS05.zip.

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BillyM — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:07:24 GMT

Looks like a great tool... however, after installing it in both VS 2005 and Orca, I am finding that it shows up in the Add-in Manager, but NOT "View Toolbars" or "Team".

Any suggestions?

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Chital Panchal — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:21:32 GMT

This is really helpful tool for searching workitems, but there is problem while installed in visual studio 2005 - team edition for software developers.

Actually, There is visual studio 2005 - team edition for software developers on my machine. I have installed search workitems utility, after installation it is showing toolbar for Work Item Tracking - Search work Items, but it does not displayed in Team menu or on tool bar.

Please help for the same.

Thanks in advance.

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Chital Panchal — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:15:21 GMT

FYI! - It was running fine with the VS2005 - Professional edition.

can anyone help for the same!

Chital Panchal

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Valery Letroye — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:19:38 GMT

I was very interested in this add-in

However, when I start VS.Net I received the following message :

the Add-in 'Search Work Item" failed to load or cause an exception.

blablabla...

ErrorMessage: <unknow error>

Error number: 8013150a

We are using VS.Net 2005 Enterprise, Team Edition for Developers Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB926601)

Team Foundation Server Power Tools 1.2

Any idea of the blocking issue ?

I have this error in my EventVwr :

aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation directory allow access to the configured account.

? :/

Valery.

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Valery Letroye — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:33:26 GMT

Sorry, I found a solution (but not sure of the reason).

I have moved the addin from %VSMYDOCUMENTS%\Addins to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins and it works now fine!

%VSMYDOCUMENTS% is on a network drive and I suspect that the customer I am currently working for has added some restrictions on this folder...

Valery.

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Mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:00:56 GMT

For those who installed this without any errors but the addin never shows up, I figured out why- at least in my case...

I had moved my "My Documents" directory from the default location in Documents and Settings to a different location at 1 point in time, and Search Work Items was installing Team System addins in that new location. However, Team System was looking in "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins" (I suspect this is the %VSMYDOCUMENTS%\Addins path). You could fix this like I did by copying the addins directory to the original path the addin was expected in, or I suspect you could add the new path to the addins file path (Under Tools->Options->Environment->Add-in/Macros Security).

Credit goes to this page, who mentioned where the add-ins get installed for Team System. http://www.developermania.com/newsgroups/category/4/189/microsoft_public_vsnet_ide.aspx

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Mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:10:36 GMT

This link may be better since it jumps directly to the topic :)

http://www.developermania.com/newsgroups/item/169967/Addins_not_being_listed_in_the_addin_manager_.aspx

Search Work Items is on CodePlex

Noah Coad — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:07:21 GMT

Due to popular demand for community participation in further development, I've posted the Search Work

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Joshua — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:50:46 GMT

Cannot get this to work on Vista... Please help.

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Corneliu I. Tusnea — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:48:30 GMT

Hi,

Here is another nice plugin that adds a search box to your Results view to allow you to search inside your current window only:

http://www.acorns.com.au/2007/12/2/TFS+Quick+Search+Plugin.aspx

Regards,

Corneliu.

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Todd S — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:15:27 GMT

I still have the problem described on codeplex - I see the addin in the addin mgr but nothing appears to be loaded. I have restarted several times.

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Bhuvan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:41:28 GMT

IT doesnt work. Installed fine without any errors. I can even see it in the Add-In Manager but No tool bar is available in the list.

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Glenn B — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:36:16 GMT

I had the problem where it didn't appear for me, and neither in the Add-Ins Manager. I'm running Windows XP SP2 and Visual Studio 2008 Release Version. I installed the VS90 (Orcas) version of this add-in.

The Problem:

It creates the folder: "..\My Documents\Visual Studio Codename Orcas\Addins" and puts the necessary files there. However the release version of Orcas creates: "..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008" folder. The installer for the tool was created during the beta releases of Orcas, so that makes sense.

The Solution:

Just move the Addins folder under "..\My Documents\Visual Studio Codename Orcas" ---> "..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008". Restart Visual Studio and your addin will appear!

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

Glenn B — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:29:46 GMT

Note that you shouldn't move the Addins folder, but just copy it.

VSTS 2008 loads the addin from the "Visual Studio 2008" folder, but the plugin looks for the query template in "Visual Studio Codename Orcas" folder.

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MartinD — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:25:58 GMT

Other potential enhancements:

* Ability to edit the MRU (especially to remove mispelled search terms)

* Ability to maintain multiple templates and select which one to use for the search. For example, the different templates could expand the fields that are searched (Title only, Title + History, etc.) or the scope of the search (current project vs. all projects)

* Ability to enter a number as the search value and not get "The work item does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it."

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Dmytro Lapshyn — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:58:08 GMT

Consider making this add-in a part of Team Foundation Power Tools - it would definitely be a worthwhile addition to TFPT!

Поиск текста в рабочих элементах

Дмитрий Лапшин — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:33 GMT

Поиск рабочих элементов, содержащих заданный текст - задача, встречающаяся довольно часто. Однако же,

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Holger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:15:12 GMT

I've installed the VS2008 version and I'm abled to see it both as a toolbar and in the Team menu. But whenever I'm entering something and pressing [ENTER] nothing happens ...

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noahc — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:26:10 GMT

New Updates! VS 2008 Support + more

Thanks to William Bartholomew, version 2.0 now supports Visual Studio 2008 as well as Visual Studio 2005, fixes the install problems, and contains a number of small updates.

I've also moved documentation to the CodePlex wiki where we can make feature improvements and easily document them.

http://www.codeplex.com/searchworkitems/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Documentation

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Jens Hofmann — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:23:14 GMT

Hi,

what about providing a second dropdown where i can select Workitems located under "Workitems/My Queries"?

The aim of this is: Use the selected "My Query" and concatenate it with the "--template"-Query using "or" and execute the new temporary created query.

With this approach it's possible to search against existing queries. I think this feature is very important and shouldn't be that difficult to implement. What do you think about it?

Jens

re: Search Work Items, Team System Addin

noahc — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:32:55 GMT

Hey Jens, I like the idea and would love to have you implement it. The project is open source on CodePlex and if you send me your CodePlex user ID I'll add you as a developer.

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Predius — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:36:33 GMT

I was also struggling with no menu items and no toolbar showing up. In my case the Visual Studio 2008 SDK was missing. You can download that from msdn downloads.

Devenv /log did report an exception produced by the addin, but the information there was not conclusive. So I downloaded the source code. As I loaded the project into my dev environment, the reason for the failure was obvious. :-)

Minor change request: Is there a general way to lookup for missing namespaces? It would help if the installation process and the startup process would find and report missing namespaces.

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Muku Ramani — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:35:05 GMT

Figured out the way for the menu to show up. Here's the sequence of installation that made it work for me -

1. Uninstall the Search Work Items (if already installed)

2. Uninstall Team Foundation Power Tools (if already installed)

3. Install SetupSearchWorkItems.msi (old version - may not be required)

4. Install SearchWorkItemsSetup-2.1.0.en-us.msi (new version)

5. tfpt.msi (Team Foundation Power Tools March 2008 release)