Based on popular demand, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers have restarted a list of cool, productive and recommended community widgets for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
The listed widgets are either free or available on trial. The list on aka.ms/widgets will be updated monthly. |
For more solutions by the ALM Rangers, please see: |
community widgets
Categories: Admin, Agile Planning, Azure, Build and Continuous Integration, Coding, Feedback, Migration, Productivity, Source Control, Teams, Testing and Other
WIDGET |
CATEGORY |
OWNER |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
URL |
Team Foundation Sidekicks |
Administration |
Attrice Corporation |
Free |
Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server administrators. |
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TFS Administration Tool |
Administration |
Community |
Free |
The TFS Administration Tool allows TFS administrators to manage user permissions on TFS, SharePoint and Reporting Services |
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TFS Administrators Toolkit for VS 2013 |
Administration |
Free |
A collection of tools to assist the TFS Administrator |
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TFS Event Manager |
Administration |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Allows you to manage Team Foundation Server event subscriptions as well as help troubleshoot event job processing. |
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TFS Power Tools |
Administration |
Microsoft |
Free |
Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios |
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TFS Storage Explorer |
Administration |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Allows browsing the Team Foundation Server (non-version control) storage for TFS 2013 or above. |
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TFS Team Project Manager |
Administration |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server. |
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Associate Recent Work Items |
Agile Planning |
Free |
Visual Studio Extension that allows you to easily associate changeset with your recent work items |
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Flight Plan Board |
Agile Planning |
Free |
An innovative visualisation project, part of the ALM Rangers Community and their continuous visualisation and technology research and collaboration initiative. |
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Task Card Creator |
Agile Planning |
Community |
Free |
Small tool for printing task cards used for a Scrum board. Your Scrum board will be looking impressive. |
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Test Scribe |
Agile Planning |
VSTS Quality Tools |
Free |
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.. |
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TFS 2013 Merge Work Items Event Handler |
Agile Planning |
Free |
TFS Server Plugin that automatically associate merged changesets with the associate work items from the merged branches |
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TFS Aggregator |
Agile Planning |
Community |
Free |
Server side plugin for TFS that enables dynamic calculation of field values in TFS. (For example: Dev work + Test Work = Total Work). |
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TFS Kanban Tabular Model |
Agile Planning |
Jeff Levinson |
Free |
report on Kanban data through Excel Services or Power View and makes the data accessible outside of Team Foundation Server. |
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TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard |
Agile Planning |
Telerik |
Free |
Work item and Project Management Dashboard |
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TFS Workbench |
Agile Planning |
Community |
Free |
TFS Workbench is a rich desktop UI providing access to your Team Foundation Server Projects for primarily managing work items |
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Work Item Field History |
Agile Planning |
Free |
Audits a specific field of a work item, showing only the revisions in which its value has changed. |
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Work Item Glass |
Agile Planning |
Pointe Smart |
Free |
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 . |
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Community TFS Build Extensions |
Build and Continuous Integration |
Community |
Free |
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. |
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TFS Work Item Morphing |
Migration |
Free |
Purpose of this tool is to perform “In Place Conversion” of data from one format to another. |
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MyHistory |
Productivity |
Free |
Visual Studio ALM Rangers My History Team Explorer Extension |
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TFS Board Enhancer |
Productivity |
Tiago Pascoal |
Free |
Adds features to TFS existing task board and kanban board that can be used on a day by day basis making it use easier. |
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Code Compare |
Source Control |
DevArt |
Free |
Compare and merge differing files and folders. Ships both as a standalone file diff tool and a Visual Studio extension. |
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TFS Branch Tool |
Source Control |
Free |
Tool to automate branching task in the ALM Rangers branching guidance |
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TFS Workspaces Cleaner |
Source Control |
Jelle Druyts |
Free |
Deletes Team Foundation Server workspaces that have not been accessed in a number of days, along with their files locally on disk. |
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TFS Team Rooms |
Teams |
Free |
Access team rooms inside Visual Studio. |
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TFS Team Tool |
Teams |
Free |
Command line utility to manage TFS Teams |
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Test Case Import Utility |
Testing |
Community |
Free |
Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artefacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. |
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News |
Other |
Free |
Get Visual Studio Online news and updates inside Visual Studio. |
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