How to: Add or Remove Favorites in Team Explorer
The My Favorites node in Team Explorer contains shortcuts to your favorite nodes within a team project. You can add or remove favorites for various team project nodes by using the following procedures. To help organize the shortcuts, you can add new folders under the My Favorites node.
Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator or your team project administrator to make sure that your user account has the permissions described in the following section.
Required Permissions
To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Team Foundation Valid Users security group. If the necessary security permissions are set explicitly, you must have the View project-level information permission on the team project set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.
To add a favorite to the Team Explorer My Favorites node
In Team Explorer, click the individual item you want to add as a favorite.
On the Team menu, click Add to My Favorites.
A shortcut is automatically created in the My Favorites node.
Note You can also drag the individual item to the My Favorites node, or a folder under the MyFavorites node. Additionally, you can copy and paste items to the My Favorites node.
The shortcut is in rename mode, and you can change the name.
If you are adding favorites from within different team projects, you should rename the shortcut to include the team project name.
To create a new folder to the Team Explorer My Favorites node
Click the My Favorites node, or the folder under the MyFavorites node where you intend to add a new folder.
On the Team menu, click New Folder.
Right-click the new folder, and then choose Rename.
Type an appropriate name for the new folder.
To remove a favorite or folder from the Team Explorer My Favorites node
In the My Favorites node, click the favorite or folder you want to delete.
On the Edit menu, click Remove.
To determine where a favorite points
Click the favorite you want to identify.
On the View menu, click Properties Window.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Move or Copy Favorites in Team Explorer