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Using Visual Studio it is very easy to navigate to the local path of a source code file. Simply right click the file in Solution explorer and select “Open File Location”. However often one must navigate to the path of the file in “Team Foundation Server” or “Visual Studio Team Services”. Unfortunately there is no straight built in way in Visual Studio to be able to do that.<\/p>\n

If you like us find yourself trying to navigate to the path of a file in in source control i.e. TFS or VSTS then you need this productivity pack<\/p>\n

https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/1a8f5f25-941c-490c-a1c4-e26b4895be6c<\/p>\n

Once you install this pack you will be able to simply right click a file in Visual Studio and select “Open in Source Control Explorer”.<\/p>\n

\"Navigate<\/a>

Navigate to TFS or Visual Studio Team Services Path of a<\/p><\/div>\n

We hope this helps!<\/p>\n

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