Team System 2008 March ’08 Power Tools

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Jeff Levinson

Microsoft is finalizing the release of the Team System 2008 Power Tools and working hard to finish up SP1 which is due out a little later (the Power Tools are now available here). Here are a list of the Power Tool features:

Power Tools
- PTE – Custom Controls
- TFSServerManager Client (produces the Microsoft developer statistics and has lots of cool features)
- TFS BPA for Windows Server 2008
- Work Item Template Improvements (pre-fill in work items with certain fields)
 - Add to Team Explorer Window
 - Templates are a fully integrated document window
- Scriptable Team Project creation
- support for 64-bit sharepoint

TFPT commands
- Unshelve /migrate
- review (performance improvements)
- destroygl (destroy global lists)
- changedocurl (rebind documents associated with a TFS Server)
- online (performance improvements)

About Jeff Levinson

Jeff Levinson is the Application Lifecycle Management Practice Lead for Northwest Cadence. He has a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and holds the following credentials: MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS, MCT, SCJP, Security+, CTT+ and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). He is the author of three books dealing with software development: Building Client/Server Applications with VB.NET, Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Pro Visual Studio Team System with Database Professionals. He has written several articles for Visual Studio Magazine, writes a twice-monthly column for VSM Online and is a regular speaker at industry events (VS Live! & Tech Ed). Jeff is formerly a Solution Design & Integration Architect for The Boeing Company and is a Microsoft Team System MVP.
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