The Team Foundation Power Tool has just been released.
It includes major news since the last release.
Major features highlights:
- Explorer Extension - That's right you will now be able to do operations on TFS source controlled files directly from windows explorer!!!!
- The concept of Teams (team tools) - The concepts have teams have been introduced. You can see teams inside team explorer (it even has IM integration). It also allows you to have team queries (work items for the team (or sub teams) instead of just my work teams)
- Power Shell Extensions - If you are a scripting buff youwill love this
- TFS Server Manager - Watch statistics and data about TFS usage (this is the tool Brian Harry uses to give us the TFS dogfood statistics on his blog)
The installer as also been greatly improved (for example the setup is now per machine instead of per user), tfpt.exe had some additions and the help file has been improved.
The Team Tools has a GREAT feature. It allows you to automatically get updates for custom contents (custom controls, check in policies,..) this will greatly reduce the hassle of manually distributing custom controls and check in policies.
Go grab it. I still haven't tried the final version but i have been using a pre release version for a few weeks and it's great (love the team tools).
Kudos for Team System Team to deliver value added tools between the major releases.
It is available for download here
[Update: Anthony Borton has published a post of how to do unattended install of the power tools]