{"id":4603,"date":"2012-08-14T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/08\/14\/showing-files-with-pending-changes-or-files-that-are-open-in-visual-studio-2012-solution-explorer\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T04:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:51:52","slug":"showing-files-with-pending-changes-or-files-that-are-open-in-visual-studio-2012-solution-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/showing-files-with-pending-changes-or-files-that-are-open-in-visual-studio-2012-solution-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes\u2026Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/3821.image_thumb_4BCF7374.png\" width=\"183\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(in this graphic the answer is no there aren\u2019t any pending changes \u2013 Visual Studio does give you glyphs in front of the files that have pending changes \u2013 but this visual cue can get lost in the noise of large solutions)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turns out finding these files and more importantly filtering on just these files is in Visual Studio 2012 is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the \u201chome\u201d button in solution explorer is a new \u201cFilter\u201d button with those to options\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/1680.image_thumb_047A1D82.png\" width=\"160\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot with pending changes turned on\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/3240.image_thumb_2428F74A.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a screen shot of the open files filter(something Visual Studio doesn\u2019t denote visually in Solution Explorer):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/6557.image_thumb_58C95385.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For folks not using TFS yet, this also works with other MSSCCI providers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes\u2026Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change? (in this graphic the answer is no there aren\u2019t any pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-git"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes\u2026Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change? (in this graphic the answer is no there aren\u2019t any pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}