Hotkey to open TFS Source Control Explorer in Visual Studio 2012? - visual-studio-2012

Currently I have to open Team Explorer and click on Source Control Explorer as below snapshot.
I do this very often and need a hotkey for that.
What is it then?

Try with below step:
Go to Options of Tools menu
Select the Keyboard from Environment
Select View.TfsSourceControlExplorer from Show commands containing:. You can type View.TFS in the textbox to filter the list.
Enter your hotkey in Press shorcut keys => click on Assign
Hope it helps!

According to a comment that I found in the site that #Adarsh mentioned, Alt+V,E,S will open the Source Control Explorer. It's a couple extra keystrokes but it works for me!

You can use Ctrl+0,P to open the Pending Changes Window.
You can find all the shortcuts for team Explorer on this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/06/06/team-explorer-2012-keyboard-shortcuts.aspx
Update:
In Visual Studio 2013 Ctrl+0,P doesn't seem to work to open Pending Changes, but you can use Alt-V,E,H or configure a custom shortcut in the menu Tools/Options/Environment/Keyboard.

Just wanted to share another alternative I learned. One could set an alias in VS Command Window and launch it from there.
alias sce View.TfsSourceControlExplorer
note- 'sce' is an alias of your choice. I generally abbreviate. Obvious but having a pattern will be helpful if you have many of these.
Steps:
Open command window (ctrl+alt+A)
Set the alias (the statement shown
above)
Next time you need to launch the Source Control Explorer,
switch/launch command window and type your alias name. 'sce' in the
above example.

Alt+V,E,S works for me even in VS 2015
In case you like to see more shortcuts, please visit this site
http://visualstudioshortcuts.com

IN VS 2015
Toolbar=>Team=> Manage Connections =>(window like solution explorer will open on right side) Team Explorer- Connect=> Beneath the home symbol ==> Click "Connect"=>Click "Source Control Explorer"

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Open path of a file in project explorer

Often I have the case that I have a file opened in the tabs like item_category.xml here:
The project explorer still shows something else. Any way to open the path to item_category.xml in the project explorer? I already checked the right-click menu of item_category.xml, but couldn't find a matching option.
Use that symbol in the project explorer (shortcut: Alt+F1, 1):
More information on the feature: Locate a file in the Project tool window.
If you don't want to use mouse but keyboard shortcut
First option could be assigning a shortcut to Select in Project View may do the trick. It is located under Keymap/Other.
Second option could be to install Scroll From Source plugin for this. The details are here
Set the keyboard shortcut to the function of "Scroll From Source" in Project Panel. You can set the special shortcut by yourself to all OS(Window/Linux/Mac)
Default shortcut is Command + Control + S for Mac.

How to disable automatic check out from Visual Studio 2012?

Whenever I open any solution in VS2012 from local path (which is mapped in TFS), the files are automatically checking out. I want to disable this feature.
I tried to disconnect from TFS and to work on it, But it is closing the solution. Plesase help me out in achieving this. I didn't get this problem before when I was using VS2010
You need to unbind your project(s) from TFS source control.
Select the project or solution from the Solution Explorer
From the main menu select File->Source Control->Advanced->Change Source Control...
Select one or all projects and press the "Unbind" button on the top of the dialog
select ok to the warning popup
You can later bind the projects again, personally I don't do this so I can't say how well it works. I found some more info here
Here are the visual steps:
This brings up the dialog to select projects to bind/unbind.
I had to select one at a time.
Select "Unbind" for each project
Here's what it should look like when unbound.
You can later come back and bind the projects again and TFS will try and reconcile your changes.
Try rather change Checked-in items (Saving, Editing) to 'Prompt for check out'
Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Enviroment -> Checked-in items
Disable the following option. It should solve your problem.
Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Enviroment -> Get everything when a solution or project is opened

VS2012 : where is custom toolbar command SyncWithActiveDocument?

In Visual Studio 2012, you can create customized toolbars and edit their contents (usually button shortcuts to some IDE commands).
I would like to add the SolutionExplorer.SyncWithActiveDocument command to one of my toolbars, but cannot find it in the list of commands available for addition to the toolbar. In which category is it located? Or is it a command not supported by the toolbar system?
I don't think you can use SyncWithActiveDocument as a command - it is a manual sync that is only active when turning off "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer" in Project and Solutions -> General.
Looking at it this way, is like trying to add auto-sync to a toolbar.

Shortcut to Compare to Latest Version in Solution Explorer - Visual Studio 2012

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.
Does setting a Tools/Options/Keyboard shortcut for TfsCompare help?
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).

Which short-cut is used to bring up this interface of ReSharper?

While I am watching the demo with the following link
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/demos/presentation/overview/refactorings/Refactor_this_demo.htm
I saw this screenshot
http://i52.tinypic.com/2cdfntc.jpg
I would like to know how to bring up this interface within resharper 5.0?
That is CTRL + TAB. Its a visual studio shortcut for the IDE Navigator. It is just showing open files and a preview of the content in them.
You can even modify some of the aspects of this window. Check this.

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