Visual Studio 2010 - local history feature?

Question

The last few years I've been using Eclipse as an IDE. Recently, however, I started working with Visual Studio 2010 and I'm intuitively searching for features I used in Eclipse.

One such is the Local file history. Is there some extension or addon which provides such functionality ?

Another small feature that I'm missing is that I can't just double click on a window to enlarge it, then just double click again and shrink it.

Answer 1

Not a great answer, but after looking around for this feature and not finding it I decided to build my own. Couldn't get the tool on Codeplex to work with VS2010. Anyway, this post was very helpful and got me on the road to a DIY solution. Note that this assumes that you are not using git as your primary VCS. I suppose if you're using git as primary then you'll want to use mercurial as your 'history' source control.

Steps:

1. install git
2. init an empty git repo in the same folder as your solution.
3. create a VS extensibility project (see post above)

4. put this to the OnAfterSave:

   m_RDT.GetDocumentInfo(docCookie, out flags, out readlocks, out editlocks, out name, out hier, out itemid, out docData);

   var ctext = string.Format("/c cd {1} && git add \"{0}\" && git commit \"{0}\" -m \"autosave {0}\" ", name, SolutionBaseDirectory);

5. Now you'll have autosave [the file name] in your git history.