Wednesday, April 3, 2013

TFS Community Branch Tool released at Visual Studio Gallery

I’ve  just released the Community Branch Tool at Visual Studio Gallery. It's is based on the ALM Rangers Quick Response Code Sample Tfs Branch Tool. And Im now converting it to an Community project to continue develop it, and make make the tools easily available and accessible for everyone.

Links and locations
You will find the Community Tfs Team Tools at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ce9651af-671c-4148-987f-a91820646031 and the source code will be published at https://tfsbranchtool.codeplex.com/

Demo Video
Willy Peter Schaub, has made a video demonstrating the feature set of the ALM Rangers Branch Tool on channel9  http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Quick-tour-of-the-TFS-Branch-Tool-VS-Extension. For an in-depth session about the architecture of the tool please refer to
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/RangersTalk-An-insight-into-the-inner-world-of-the-Quick-Response-TFS-Branch-Tool


Based on the ALM Rangers Quick Response Code sample
The TFS Community Branch Tools Project is based on the ALM Rangers Quick Response Code Sample Tfs Branch Tool. If you want to know more about the ALM Rangers or the Quick Response Sample that started it all, please read the following posts
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/06/22/introducing-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/11/22/quick-response-sample-visual-studio-extension-to-support-the-alm-rangers-branching-and-merging-guidance.aspx