Visual Studio Team System

1. Visual Studio Team System Overview of Visual Studio Team System Tools

2. Introduction • Team Explorer lacks certain features • Team Foundation Server has more to offer • Visual Studio Integration Partner SDK • Microsft TFS Power Toys • Third party tools

3. Agenda: Microsoft TFS Power Tool Attrice Team Foundation Sidekicks Open Source Tools

4. Microsoft TFS Power Tool

5. TFS Power Tool (TFPT) • Provides supplemental functionality for use with TFS • Command line tool • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server Power Tools\tfpt.exe • Some commands will display a GUI when called • Provides command help • Tfpt.exe help [command name]

6. Installed Commands RED – Available from Visual Studio 2005

7. Command Descriptions • Unshelve – Unshelve and merge changes in the workspace • Rollback – Rollback changes already commited to TFS • Online – Create pending edits on writable files that do not have pending edits • GetCS – Get the changes in a particular change set

8. Command Descriptions • UU – Undo unchanged files, including add/edit/deletes • Annotate – Displays information about who changed each line in the file and when each change were made. • Review – Optimize the code review process to avoid checking in and shelving

9. Command Descriptions • History – Displays the revision history for one or more files and folders • Workitem – Create, update, or view work items • Query – Runs a work item query and displays the results • Treediff – Displays a visual representation of the differences between files in two server folders, a local and server folder, or in two local folders

10. Command Descriptions • Workspace – Update the computer name for a specific workspace • Treeclean – view and optionally delete files that are not under source control in the current directory and all sub-directories. Useful for removing temporary files in your workspace

11. TreeDiff (Compare...) • Accessible from the Team Explorer Source Control Explorer

12. TreeDiff (Tree Difference)

13. Annotate • Accessible from the Team Explorer Source Control Explorer

14. Demo • Visual Studio 2005 Environment • Annotate • TreeDiff • Command line • History • Unshelve • TreeClean

15. Team Foundation Sidekick

16. Team Foundation Sidekick • Suite of Tools for Administrators and advanced users • Provides a GUI for administrative and advanced source control tasks in a multi-user TFS environment

17. Team Foundation Sidekick • Features • Shelveset sidekick • Labels sidekick • History sidekick • Status sidekick • Workspace sidekick

18. Shelveset Sidekick • View shelveset • Filtered by • Shelveset name, Creator name, Modification date range • Contents • Shelveset properties • Version control items in shelveset • Check-in notes • Associated work items

19. Shelveset Sidekick • Compare shelveset version with original version • Delete shelveset

20. Shelveset Sidekick

21. Labels Sidekick • View • Labels filtered by • Name, Creator Name, Modification date range, Team project name • Label Details • Labeled version control items • Labeled changesets • Labeled work items

22. Labels Sidekick • Export list of labels to CSV file • Compare labeled version to latest version • Delete labels • Unlabel

23. Labels Sidekick

24. Workspace Sidekick • View • Workspaces filtered by • Owner name, computer name, modification dates range • Delete workspaces • Update workspaces • Add new folder mapping

25. Workspace Sidekick

26. Status Sidekick • View • Tree of pending changes filtered by • User name, Team project name, creation date range • Detailed list of pending changes • Export detailed list to CSV file • Unlock one or more files and folders • Undo pending changes

27. Status Sidekick

28. History Sidekick • View • Properties • Pending changes • Branches tree • Compare File versions • In history, Between labels • Export history list to CSV file

29. History Sidekick

30. Open Source Tools

31. TFS Event Subscription Tool • GUI tool for subscribing to events on TFS • Equivalent of BisSubscribe.exe, BUT • BisSubscribe only runs on the server • Creating subscriptions using BisSubscribe is hard due to its syntax • TFS Event Subscription tool is deployable to client workstations • Comes with an expression builder

32. TFS Event Subscription Tool

33. TFS Bug Snapper • Attaches screen dumps of application crashes • Enter work item Title, Description, Rank • Simplifies the process

34. TFS Bug Snapper

35. TfsAlert • Taskbar application that displays a notification bubble • .NET 3.0 smart client built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS event you feel like. • Useful for Work Item Tracking, Team Build management

36. TfsAlert

37. TFS Permission Manager • Add/Remove TFS Group memberships • Set server and project level permissions • Create new TFS users with permissions identical to an existing one • Save user permissions as a template to use later for creating or updating user permissions

38. TFS Permission Manager

39. Demo • TFS Event Subscription Tool • TFS Permission Manager • TFS Bug Snapper • TfsAlert

40. Credits • CodePlex - hosting open source projects • Attrice Corporation – TFS Sidekick • NarenDatha – TFS Event Subscription Tool • Clark Sell – TfsAlert • Grant Holliday – TFS Bug Snapper • SRL Team – TFS Permission Manager

41. Links • Microsoft TFS Power Tool (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718351.aspx) • Attrice Corporation (http://www.attrice.info) • NarenDatha’s Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/narend)

42. Links • Clark Sell’s Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/csell) • Grant Holliday’s Blog (http://www.holliday.com.au/) • CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com) • Mike’s Blog (http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser)

43. Links • SRL Team (TFS Permission Manager) (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/srlteam/archive/2006/11/27/TFS-Permission-Manager-1.0-is-Finally-out.aspx)

44. The End