The VSTS 2008 TFS Power Tools made their October Release (yes, in November) ... and it’s packed full of yummy goodness.
- A Windows Shell Extension (think Tortoise SVN)
- A new tfpt command:
searchcsfor searching checkins/date/user/path/comments, etc. - Support for shelvesets in the tfpt command-line app.
- PowerShell Cmdlets with pipeline support (just starting, but there’s 17 cmdlets already)
- Team Members support: start Chat/phone/video calls through Communicator or Live Messenger (you can write plugins for others), see pending changes, get notifications on Checkins, etc.
I think you can see that some of this will work with CodePlex, and some wont, but I’m most interested in the shell extension and PowerShell cmdlets! I wonder if they should implement a PSProvider…
What would a provider do to plans like PoshCode? Is that something you could build upon (hypothetically)?
I don’t think a PowerShell Provider for TFS would really help with PoshCode at all, except in the sense that we would be useful for me while coding it
I mean, I can imagine creating something like http://gist.github.com but as far as I can tell, TFS’s licensing wouldn’t allow it, so it doesn’t really matter