TFS 2008 October Power Tools Released

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Shad Timm

The Novemberish October TFS 2008 power tools were released over the weekend so grab the download now!

Windows shell extension for source control, powershell integration, team collaboration tools (messaging, workspace templates, check in history, view shelvesets and pending changes, distribution of custom components).

This power tools release is huge and for some features it has been a long wait but I am so glad it is here.  Check out Brian Harry’s blog for some screen shots and a more detailed breakdown of all the new features.

About Shad Timm

Shad Timm is a Visual Studio Team System Consultant with Northwest Cadence. He has extensive experience with Team Build and MSBuild, Business Intelligence with Reporting Services, and implementing Software Configuration Management best practices with Visual Studio Team System. He has worked with several organizations to automate their build and deployment process, customize Team Foundation Server to gather specific metrics about their development process, and provide reports to facilitate process improvement. His passion knows no limits when it comes to increasing the effectiveness of Visual Studio Team System in order to provide real business value to an organization.
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  • steven.shippee

    With all of these tools one would think there would be an easier way to tell wich version of TFS 2008 one has installed, besides going into the registry and looking at KEY:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    \SOFTWARE
    \Microsoft
    \VisualStudio
    \9.0
    \TeamFoundation
    \Registration
    which I had to do because I had erroneously installed the TRIAL version of TFS 2008 and was getting error messages that it was about to expire. Then I had to go into add/remove programs and re-enter the key, the permanent key this time. Is there an easier way to do this (yet)? Thanks in advance.