Sometimes, you just want to know what programs or source code was most recently changed.

The excludes below were set up to work with BizTalk source directories. I was only wanting to see files changed by a person, so change the -Exclude list as needed.

cls
$sourceCodeDirectory = "D:\Source"
$numberOfFilesToRetrieve = 50 
$latestFiles = (Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceCodeDirectory -Attributes !Directory `
     -Recurse -Exclude *.dll, *.pdb, *.cache, File*.cs, *.xsd.cs, *.odx.ds, *.btp.cs, *.btm.cs, *.FileListAsolute.txt, *.btproj.user,
                       *.exe `
     | Sort-Object -Descending -Property LastWriteTime | select -First $numberOfFilesToRetrieve)
$counter =  0
foreach ($file in $latestFiles)
{
    if ($file.Fullname -notmatch "\\obj\\" -and $file.Fullname -notmatch "\\bin\\" )
       {
            $counter +=  1
            Write-Host $counter $file.FullName  $file.LastWriteTime
       }
}