TFS Quick Tips: #1 Adding a screenshot to a work item

Ron Buckton — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:43:10 GMT

The Team Explorer in Visual Studio provides a quick (and not exactly obvious) method for attaching a screenshot or other content to a Work Item.

To quickly add a screenshot do the following:

1. Press PrtScrn or Alt+PrntScrn (Captures only the currently active window)

2. Open a Work Item (Bug, Task, etc) in team explorer

3. Click “File Attachments”

4. Press Ctrl+V (Paste)

A file called “Screenshot.png” is automatically attached to the work item.

To quickly add any copied text as an attachment to a work item do the following:

1. Select the text to copy (or press Ctrl+A to select all text in the active input area like a page or document)

2. Open a Work Item (Bug, Task, etc) in team explorer

3. Click “File Attachments”

4. Press Ctrl+V (Paste)

A file called “PastedText.txt” is automatically attached to the work item.

You can also quickly add a file from your desktop as an attachment using the same steps as above:

1. Select the files to copy

2. Open a Work Item (Bug, Task, etc) in team explorer

3. Click “File Attachments”

4. Press Ctrl+V (Paste)

Each of the files selected is now attached to the work item.

If you get an alert in a page like so:

Simply press Ctrl+C (Copy) to copy the contents of the dialog into the clipboard. To paste the text you can just use Ctrl+V:

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Windows Internet Explorer

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You can copy this

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Visual Studio "Browse with..." multiple browsers

Ron Buckton — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:41:14 GMT

Here's a tip if you're doing a lot of cross browser ASP.NET or AJAX development in Visual Studio:

Right click an .aspx file and choose "Browse with..."
If you're like me you've probably added some additional browsers to your "Browse with" list like FireFox, Opera and Safari. If you want to view the page in multiple browsers, CTRL+click each item:
Hit "Browse" and all of the browsers will open for the specified page.
If you want to open multiple browsers every time, click "Set as Default":
Now all of the browsers will open whenever you choose "Browse" from the context menu.