{"id":1023,"date":"2014-06-19T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2014\/06\/19\/visual-studio-alm-community-widgets-aka-mswidgets\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:48:54","slug":"visual-studio-alm-community-widgets-aka-mswidgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/visual-studio-alm-community-widgets-aka-mswidgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms\/widgets)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on popular demand, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers<\/a>  have restarted a list of cool, productive and recommended community widgets for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The listed widgets are either free<\/strong> or available on trial<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The list on aka.ms\/widgets<\/a> will be updated monthly. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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For more solutions by the ALM Rangers, please see:<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"Solutions\"<\/a> \"Quick<\/a> \"Publications\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

community widgets<\/font><\/h2>\n

Categories<\/strong>: Admin, Agile Planning, Azure, Build and Continuous Integration, Coding, Feedback, Migration, Productivity, Source Control, Teams, Testing and Other<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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WIDGET<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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CATEGORY<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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OWNER<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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COST<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DESCRIPTION<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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URL<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Team Foundation Sidekicks<\/b> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Attrice Corporation<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server administrators. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Administration Tool<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The TFS Administration Tool allows TFS administrators to manage user permissions on TFS, SharePoint and Reporting Services<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Administrators Toolkit for VS 2013<\/b> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mattias Sk\u00f6ld<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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A collection of tools to assist the TFS Administrator <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Event Manager<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jelle Druyts<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Allows you to manage Team Foundation Server event subscriptions as well as help troubleshoot event job processing.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Power Tools<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Microsoft<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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TFS 2010<\/font><\/a> 
<\/font>TFS 2012<\/font><\/a>
<\/font>TFS 2013<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Storage Explorer<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jelle Druyts<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Allows browsing the Team Foundation Server (non-version control) storage for TFS 2013 or above. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Team Project Manager<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Administration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jelle Druyts<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Associate Recent Work Items<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jakob Ehn<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Visual Studio Extension that allows you to easily associate changeset with your recent work items<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Flight Plan Board<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Robert MacLean<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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An innovative visualisation project, part of the ALM Rangers Community and their continuous visualisation and technology research and collaboration initiative.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Task Card Creator<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Small tool for printing task cards used for a Scrum board. Your Scrum board will be looking impressive.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Test Scribe<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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VSTS Quality Tools<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artefacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc..<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS 2013 Merge Work Items Event Handler<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jakob Ehn<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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TFS Server Plugin that automatically associate merged changesets with the associate work items from the merged branches<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Aggregator<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Server side plugin for TFS that enables dynamic calculation of field values in TFS. (For example: Dev work + Test Work = Total Work).<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Kanban Tabular Model<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jeff Levinson<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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report on Kanban data through Excel Services or Power View and makes the data accessible outside of Team Foundation Server.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Work Item<\/b> Manager and TFS Project Dashboard<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Telerik<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Work item and Project Management Dashboard<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Workbench<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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TFS Workbench is a rich desktop UI providing access to your Team Foundation Server Projects for primarily managing work items<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Work Item Field<\/b> History<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Vinicius Moura<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Audits a specific field of a work item, showing only the revisions in which its value has changed.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Work Item Glass<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Agile Planning<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Pointe Smart<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Work Item Glass is an alternate client for Team Foundation Server whose target audience consists of those team members not in a traditional Developer role such . <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Community TFS Build Extensions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Build and Continuous Integration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The Community TFS Build Extensions is a collection of workflow activities, build process template files, PowerShell scripts and tools for Team Foundation Build provided by the community.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Work Item Morphing<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Migration<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Dharmesh_Shah<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Purpose of this tool is to perform \u201cIn Place Conversion\u201d of data from one format to another.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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MyHistory<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Productivity<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Michael Fourie<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Visual Studio ALM Rangers My History Team Explorer Extension <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Board Enhancer<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Productivity<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tiago Pascoal<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Adds features to TFS existing task board and kanban board that can be used on a day by day basis making it use easier.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Code Compare<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Source Control<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DevArt<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Compare and merge differing files and folders. Ships both as a standalone file diff tool and a Visual Studio extension.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Branch Tool<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Source Control<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mattias Sk\u00f6ld<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tool to automate branching task in the ALM Rangers branching guidance<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Workspaces Cleaner<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Source Control<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jelle Druyts<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Deletes Team Foundation Server workspaces that have not been accessed in a number of days, along with their files locally on disk. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Team Rooms<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Teams<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tarun Arora<\/font><\/a>
Utkarsh Shigihalli<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Access team rooms inside Visual Studio.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TFS Team Tool<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Teams<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mattias Sk\u00f6ld<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Command line utility to manage TFS Teams <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Test Case Import Utility<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Testing<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Community<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artefacts, present in Excel and MHT\/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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News<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Other<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tarun Arora<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Free<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Get Visual Studio Online news and updates inside Visual Studio.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DOWNLOAD<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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