New release of TFS 2012 Community Tfs Team Tools

One of the things I like with publishing tools and sources is that sometimes you get feedback from users who actually uses and benefits from your creations. It’s a rewarding feeling then someone takes their time to share their experiences, good or/and bad.

The one thing that’s even more rewarding in then someone not only uses it, but also get involved to make it better. 

New features added by Jesse Houwing

This is the case in the new release of the TfsTeamTools, Jesse contacted me to inform that he had extended the tool with a couple of new features he needed, and offered to help get they implement in the TfsTeamTools project. So this community project got one contributor added and a new release

This is a short description of the added features, for more details please refer to Jesse’s excellent post. 

• Set the picture for a user
  In TFS2012 the user can upload a picture to your profile The problem is that it’s all manual work required by each user. With this new feature you can now upload pictures from the command line instead, opening up for bulk operations and automation.
  http://blog.jessehouwing.nl/2013/01/set-your-tfs-profile-or-team-image-from.html
  
  
• Convert security groups to a teams
  If you handle multiple teams in a team project, you probably did create a security group in TFS. Now you can use this tool to upgrade security groups to a fully supported TFS2012 teams.
  http://blog.jessehouwing.nl/2013/02/converting-group-to-team-in-tfs-2012.html

New release available on CodePlex
To make is easily available we published a beta release on codeplex. Once we have done a more extended testing on it we will make a stable release and also publish the new version to Visual Studio Gallery

Community TFS Team Tools released at CodePlex

I’ve  just pushed the button and released the Community TFS Team Tools Codeplex project, and the binaries is now packaged and downloadable from Visual Studio Gallery as Community Tfs Team Command line utility. All in effort to make the tools and source code easily available.

Links and locations
You will find the Community Tfs Team Tools codeplex project at http://tfsteamTools.codeplex.com and the latest stable binaries at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/36986691-931d-4e2e-bbc2-1b2f03a4eff5

Based on the ALM Rangers Quick Response Code sample
The Community TFS Team Tools project is based on the ALM Rangers Quick Response Code Sample, and extended with more features. 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
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/06/11/quick-response-sample-command-line-utility-to-manage-team-foundation-server-teams-and-users.aspx

Future plans
Jason Stangroome did a PowerShell Quick Response sample based on the rangers Quick Response Sample ;) ,  you can find it at https://github.com/codeassassin/PsTfsTeams. This got me thinking about exposing the commands as PowerShell Commandlets, preferable without duplicating the code. So if I find a way, or hopefully get pointed at it,  it might be the next feature.