Automatically open Source Control Explorer when Visual Studio starts up

Question

We use Visual Studio 2008/2010 and Team Foundation Server here at work. Sometimes I want to just use the Source Control Explorer. Is there a way to have Visual Studio laun

Answer 1

OK, I figured it out - Source Control Explorer is available in the Visual Studio IDE as a command (View.TfsSourceControlExplorer), and the Visual Studio executable (devenv.exe) provides the /Command argument to execute a command after the IDE starts up. In my case, I have created a desktop shortcut with the following command line:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" 
         /Command View.TfsSourceControlExplorer

NOTE: if you really want this to load fast and don't need any other addins (in my case ReSharper and .NET Reflector Pro) then you can also add the /SafeMode argument to the command line.