TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

If you develop small utilities for Team Foundation Server a lot, you might want to save some time and use a project template (see bottom of post for download link) that already comes equipped with the correct references to the Team Foundation Object Model (Microsoft.TeamFoundation.*.dlls) as well as the most important using statements and a few lines of code to get started.

Installation

Copy the ZIP file to {MyDocuments}\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates.

Usage

Create a new project and select “TFS Utility” from the “Visual C#” list.

The template creates a new Windows Forms application with references to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.*.dlls (btw: the C# compiler gets rid of all references that were not used in the project during compilation)…

… as well as a a few using statements and some code to start from.

Happy TFS tool development!

Download: TfsUtility.zip