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• Adam commented  ·  April 10, 2013 12:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes. Agreed with everyone here. Please bring back the old pending changes as the one we have in VS 2012 is complete junk and is nearly unusable.

  Now I am all for change and smart ideas... but why oh WHY would you strip out or try to completely reinvent functionality that works perfectly already?

  FYI, I have been using this TeamPilgrim extension as a substitute until Microsoft puts this functionality back into VS that they so idiotically left out:
  http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/79e9baa7-ea8b-4335-86ba-ae929bf67222

  It is buggy, and crashes VS 2012 all the time. But I would rather deal with this than the alternative.

• Mike commented  ·  March 11, 2013 2:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please bring back the old list view with checkboxes and full path. My team works with multiple branches and perform multiple merges during a 4 week cycle. I need to be able to quickly find certain changes (using the full path makes this easy). When you have a large list the treeview is painful!!! please please bring it back

• marcel commented  ·  February 15, 2013 5:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please go back to the old "Pending changes" windows. The workflow was almost perfect. For our complete developer team the VS 2012 isn't useable because of this.

• ScottLangham commented  ·  December 31, 2012 2:11 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @Matthew Mitrik - No, it wouldn't be good enough in a tooltip.

• Erik van Berkel commented  ·  December 12, 2012 3:36 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The tree view is not intuitive. I cannot see in a glance what I do. What did I add, move or delete? was nicely discoverable by sorting the old list view. The include / exclude feature is nice when you do multiple checkins and don't want some specific files to be accidentilly included, but most of the times it is much quicker to use checkboxes instead of drag/drop or use the context menu. Most important: I want the Pending changes window to be its own window positioned where I want independent of other TFS windows.

• KRIS commented  ·  November 20, 2012 4:27 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Tree view is awfull + excluded list completely stupid.

• Jan Mortensen commented  ·  November 14, 2012 2:01 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Dragging back and forth to the excluded list is ok for a small list of pending changes; well takes a Little longer.

  But the longer the list gets the more annoying it gets.
  So I use the Explorer integration instead; from TFS Power Tools 2012 as it still uses the old list form

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 14, 2012 6:08 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Who invented this????? Who thought that drag and drop to in/exclude is simpler than the checkboxes? Just seeing the tree is making interpretation more complicated than the old view.

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 9, 2012 3:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I've just started using VS2012 and am gobsmacked that the listview has been deprecated. So, I'll add another vote to getting this feature returned. Like others have stated - "how the **** did this feature get left out?" - it beggars belief and makes one wonder why so many beta testers didn't think this was an important issue?

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 9, 2012 1:25 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I will continue to use 2010 for all TFS related work. This is the first time I've seen such a real step backward in a new release of Visual Studio!!! It is amazing to me how unusable the pending changes capabiltiy is in Visual Studio 2012. It makes me seriously doubt that Microsoft Developers are using their own tools. Please bring back the VS2010 Pending Changes window and please analyze what would possess a development team to make such a blunder.

• Scott Korin commented  ·  November 9, 2012 7:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Our company just moved from 2012 to 2010, and I find the 2012 Pending Changes window almost completely unusable. My ultimate wish would be to see the 2010 version of Pending Changes window in 2012. I'll be checking in my changes from 2010 for the time being.

• Alex Sorokoletov commented  ·  November 6, 2012 1:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please bring listview back. Current way is annoying and takes much much time to to do simple things.

• Anonymous commented  ·  October 17, 2012 8:45 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Make having the old Pending Changes an option, or perhaps a power-tool add-in. This new version is just not great. I always used the option to group by folder.

• Mattias Lantz commented  ·  September 28, 2012 3:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The new pending changes is NOT nice to work with. I liked the flat list where it is easy to check/uncheck what I want. Now it is a grey and black mess with folder levels and what not. TOO BUSY and ineffective to work with. Also make it a seperate window. Everyone can mess up, and this was just that. Now please fix this ASAP. I just closed down 2012 and opened 2010 because of the Pending changes window.

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 25, 2012 1:05 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I also would like to see old style pending changes back. One question posed was, would it be OK in a tooltip. My answer is categorically NO!!!

  You miss the point by suggesting this. The great thing about the old pending changes is you could have it open all the time and track all your changes across projects. Double clicking on the files allowed you to easily find those changes to edit. You need to be abler to see all the paths so you can quickly browse all the changes and check whether any are in the wrong branch or been checked out in error. Putting in a tooltip would be tedious as you would need to hover over every item.

• Michael Bunney commented  ·  September 23, 2012 2:56 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I would also like the Pending Changes pane to be separable from the Team Explorer (as it was in 2010). The Team Explorer lends itself to a vertical view, but the Pending Changes need to be a horizontal columnar view. Because VS 2012 combines them, you can only dock them in one place -- and wherever you dock it, it's not going to work for one or the other.

• Jim Cline commented  ·  September 17, 2012 1:46 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I want the VS 2010 Pending changes window back. This new one is a headache.

• Wiliam F. Cook commented  ·  September 13, 2012 7:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The full path is DEFINITELY needed in the list view. It is ESSENTIAL, especially when checking in a subset of changes in a given workspace. What would be great would be an option to change the columns in the list view to include/exclude information like this. That would have achieved the (unnecessary, spurious) goal of reducing horizontal space usage without reducing functionality.

  I have two very large monitors in front of me. Vertical space is at a premium, horizontal space is cheap. You've gone backwards with this one.

• Wiliam F. Cook commented  ·  September 13, 2012 7:48 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I could get the same organizational effect with the list view by simply sorting on the correct column. This new view is much ****** to work with, displays much less information on a single screen. I agree that this issue needs to be consolidated with http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2654486-vs11-bring-back-the-old-pending-changes-window

• Ryan commented  ·  September 12, 2012 11:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's better to have the full path in the horizontal view, because you can then easily select all files in a folder or subfolder by sorting