Visual Studio extension: hook on move file

Question

I'm sure everyone who has been working with TFS at some point was annoyed by the fact that you will lose file history when moving files in between projects using the solution explorer (files will be deleted and added, not moved).

So I was searching quite a lot what kind of solutions there are. The "best" solution was to do it in SourceControlExplorer.

I still find this very annoying, so I was thinking about writing an extension which hooks on the moving on a file within the solution explorer and perform the respective TFS move action. I have never seen an extension doing something similar like that and also could not find some.

Can someone with some extension programming experience if this is something an extension is capable of? Can I intercept default behavior and execute my own?

Hope this is not an of topic question!?

Answer 1

I think you need to develop an app for the TFS. There are differen use cases for developing application around the TFS. This sounds like a use case for the server. Your application extends the file management system on the server.

if you meant something completely different i'm sorry.

if you really want to do it in Visual Studio, you can develop an extension that extends the SourceControlExplorer. It is possible to get the complete history of a file and to modify the history itself.