Visual Studio Time Tracking Plugin

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Is there a plug-in for Visual Studio that will track time spent on a project as well as the files being worked on?

It would be really useful to be able to generate a report each day with the projects worked on the files that were being worked would be used to match up a task to the time.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8843328/an-add-on-to-keep-track-of-total-hours-worked-on-a-project-in-visual-studio — jessehouwing, Jan 01 '14 at 20:30

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '15 at 00:36

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Check out WakaTime, open-source on GitHub:

https://github.com/wakatime/visualstudio-wakatime

It gives you a dashboard of your logged time:

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answered May 23 '15 at 00:36

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Sergey Vlasov · Answer 2 · 2011-04-28T08:50:48.957

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You can try my recently released Visual Time Spent add-in. It integrates with Visual Studio and tracks time spent on solutions, projects and files.

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answered Apr 14 '11 at 10:33

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '09 at 12:00

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If you are using TFS you can track time allocated to Work Items in your team project using TFS Working On

Seems pretty straight forward to setup and use... although I do not have experience using it for any length of time.

answered Jul 31 '09 at 12:00

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I'm not using TFS so I'm not sure how much it will help – William Hurst Jul 31 '09 at 12:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 15 '18 at 20:03

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Check out TargetProcess

However, it does way more than tracking time, so it might not be appropriate to what you want to have.

edited Oct 15 '18 at 20:03

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answered Jul 31 '09 at 11:57

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This solution is good, but doesn't "track ... the files being worked on" as requested in the OP, does it? – noelicus Aug 05 '14 at 21:05

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '12 at 13:56

time cockpit has a feature called "signal trackers". Those track what you are doing, encrypt the data, synchronize it between your devices and presents it in a Calendar style application. You can therefore easily derive what you have been doing when and reconstruct your day.

In your situation, it would track the active window title (showing the solution file) as well as the file writes you had (tells you the files you changed). So you would probably get decent hints on what you have been working at.

I can't be objective here, as I am one of the devs, but it works quite well for our customers as well as us internally.

Visual Studio Time Tracking Plugin

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