In Visual Studio 2012, in the Solution Explorer (not Pending Changes), is there any way to create a keyboard shortcut, right click context menu item, or menu bar button that does a TFS Compare to Latest Version?
Alternatively, on the general Compare dialog, is there any way to change the default selection of Type: Workspace Version to Type: Latest Version?
Basically I am looking for the easiest way to get to Compare to Latest using the fewest clicks, from the Solution Explorer.
For me, this worked:
VS > Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard > Show Commands Containing: Team.Git.CompareWithUnmodified
By assigning a shortcut key Ctrl+\, Ctrl+\ to this command ( Team.Git.CompareWithUnmodified) I can now compare my current file (the file that is open in the editor) to the previous version of the file by pressing the shortcut key Ctrl+\, Ctrl+\; no need to find the file in solution explorer, then right-click the file then select Compare.
(you can choose your own shortcut key of course)
Just a note on different behaviour:
Team.Git.CompareWithUnmodified works for me because I am using TeamExplorer in VisualStudio but I use GIT as the underlying source code repository.
Tfs.FileCompare could also work in other scenarios (i.e. if you don't use Git, but use VSTS or TFS as your source control provider).
