Did you know you could directly paste (Ctrl-v) screenshots/files/etc as new TFS work item File Attachments (VS2008 RTM)? Me neither…

inventive title - TFS Quick Tips: #1 Adding a screenshot to a work item

“The Team Explorer in Visual Studio provides a quick (and not exactly obvious) method for attaching a screenshot or other content to a Work Item.

Screenshots

To quickly add a screenshot do the following:

1. Press PrtScrn or Alt+PrntScrn (Captures only the currently active window)

2. Open a Work Item (Bug, Task, etc) in team explorer

3. Click “File Attachments”

4. Press Ctrl+V (Paste)

A file called “Screenshot.png” is automatically attached to the work item.

Copied Text

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Copied Files

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Bonus Tip – Copy and Paste Text from an Alert

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Oh my… This little tip could have saved me a good bit of time.

It’s really simple too.

Copy something to the clipboard, screenshot, file, text, etc, create or open a Work Item, go to the File Attachments tab and then Paste (Ctrl-V). You’re done.
(BTW, don’t click on the Add… button, just Ctrl-V on the File Attachments tab area)

For me, this worked on VS2008 RTM (yes RTM, the one you have in your hands now) but not VS2005.

I am SO going to use this feature going forward!

(via Team System News - VSTS Links - 07/31/2008)