TFS web portal: is it possible to associate / URI directly with the line number in the file?

Question

I would like to send my employees a link directly to the line number in the file in our TFS repo. Is it possible? If so, how? We are using TFS 2015.

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Currently, the best way I've found is to link to the file as follows:

HTTP [s]: // {tFS-server} [: {PORT}] / TFS / {PROJECT-ASSY} / _ versionControl # path = {path to file}

Then, Ctrl + G, enter the line number manually. Before I dig up JavaScript to find out how Ctrl + G works, I hope someone can help me.

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I tried variations of this theme, but without sucecss:

HTTP [s]: // {tFS-server} [: {PORT}] / TFS / {PROJECT-ASSY} / _ versionControl # path = {path to file} # string = {LINE} p>

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PS My problem is similar to this problem , but instead of Visual Studio I am looking for a link through the TFS web portal.

Answer 1

I just heard from a guy from Microsoft that adding &line=5 should work. My local tests show that it works only for Visual Studio Team Services and does not work with TFS 2015 2. You probably have to wait for Update 3 for this feature to get into TFS.

At the same time, Javascript is simply looking for a div with the desired linenumber attribute:

 <div linenumber="5">...</div> 

Answer 2

Once you select the code snippet in the VSO code editor, you can copy the link to this section (see the figure below). It looks like TFS has a pretty similar url structure, maybe it will work.

Link Structure Generated

HTTPS: // {PROJECT_URL} / _versionControl path = {FILE_PATH} & line = {SELECTION_START_LINE} & lineEnd = {SELECTION_END_LINE} & lineStartColumn = {SELECTION_START_COLUMN} & lineEndColumn = {SELECTION_END_COLUMN}

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