Daniel Cazzulino's Blog : Team Foundation Power Toys, Vista compatible!

Team Foundation Power Toys, Vista compatible!

If you’re serious about working with TFS, and you fell the out-of-the-box experience (UI and command line) is lacking, you MUST go get these tools NOW.

In a nutshell:

Team Foundation Server is happy to announce the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys). In this release we’ve added 2 new command line tools for the developer and 3 non-command line tools. This version includes some bug fixes to previous Power Tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality:

· Workspace Command (tfpt.exe) - Use the workspace command for additional workspace operations not supported in the currently shipping Team Foundation Server command line (tf.exe). **

· Treeclean Command (tfpt.exe) - Use the treeclean command to see and optionally delete files in the current directory and all subdirectories that are not under version control.


· Process Template Editor - A tool to provide UI for authoring work item types and some of the associated Process Template components.


· Check-in Policy Pack - A set of handy check-in policies to address needs customers have expressed.


· Build Test Tools Task - A tool that allows running unit tests by simply specifying the DLLs or even specifying a file name pattern in TfsBuild.proj, instead of using .vsmdi files to specify tests to run.

Please note that the Process Template Editor has some additional pre-requisites, they are identified on the download page.

You can locate the Team Foundation Power Tools V1.2 release hereand you can get help on the forums for these tools here.

Enjoy!

/kzu

/kzu dev↻d