Tuesday, January 27, 2009

TFS PowerTools for VSTS 2008

Have you wondered how to unshelve your shelveset from one branch to other branch ?

Have you wondered on getting a build notification on success or failure for every TFS build of your check-ins?

and you may have many more such tool needs and not available in VSTS.. and few of them could get solved with TFS (Team Foundation Server) PowerTools for Visual Studio Team System 2008.

Check it out with download from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx


(Snippet from MSDN)
Team Foundation Server Power Tools includes the following tools:
Command line tool (TFPT.EXE)
Build Notification tool
TFS Best Practices Analyzer
Process Template Editor
Work Item Templates
Custom check-in policies
TFS Server Manager
TFS Users tool
Alert Editor



Here is the link to the blog post by Ton de ron on "Unshelving from one branch to another with Team Foundation Server Powertools 2008"


~Tony Julien