Determining who modified a certain line of code (a.k.a. "blame feature")

Question

We have a very complex project where severals file might be modified by many (let say 50) different users. Occasionally, in order to understand and make changes to a code block, you need to contact the person who wrote that line/code block/method. So what you do is you go through all changesets until you find the one you were looking for.

Is there a built-in feature to find the author of a line/code block/method in Visual Studio Team Explorer 2012 directly?

If not, is there a third-party tool that has this feature?

Answer 1

Fortunately, I have found a solution I was looking for. There is a feature called Annotate:

And here is the result: