Team Foundation Server Extras

TFS is one of the greatest development productivity tools I have seen in a long time from Microsoft.   The community around TFS is just amazing.   I enjoy being a part of that everyday as a Microsoft VSTS Ranger.  This article is a to begin to capture some of the great free/commercial products and websites articles available to enhance TFS.  I hope some of these tools makes you application lifecycle management the best it can be.

Free Tools

• Telerick TFS Manager and Dashboard: https://www.telerik.com/products/tfsmanager-and-tfsdashboard/tfs-work-item-manager-features.aspx
• The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks: https://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/
• MSBuild Extension Tasks: https://msbuildextensionpack.codeplex.com/
• MSBulid SDC Tasks: https://sdctasks.codeplex.com/

Commercial Tools

• Attrice MSBuild Sidekick $55 or more: https://www.attrice.info/msbuild/index.htm

Websites

• TFS Build Recipes: https://tfsbuild.com/