Based on popular demand, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers have restarted a list of cool, productive and recommended community widgets for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
The listed widgets are either free or available on trial. The list on aka.ms/widgets will be updated monthly. | For more solutions by the ALM Rangers, please see: |    |
community widgets
Categories: Admin, Agile Planning, Azure, Build and Continuous Integration, Coding, Feedback, Migration, Productivity, Source Control, Teams, Testing and Other
WIDGET | CATEGORY | OWNER | COST | DESCRIPTION | URL |
Team Foundation Sidekicks | Administration | Attrice Corporation | Free | Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server administrators. | |
TFS Administration Tool | Administration | Community | Free | The TFS Administration Tool allows TFS administrators to manage user permissions on TFS, SharePoint and Reporting Services | |
TFS Administrators Toolkit for VS 2013 | Administration | Free | A collection of tools to assist the TFS Administrator | ||
TFS Event Manager | Administration | Jelle Druyts | Free | Allows you to manage Team Foundation Server event subscriptions as well as help troubleshoot event job processing. | |
TFS Power Tools | Administration | Microsoft | Free | Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios | |
TFS Storage Explorer | Administration | Jelle Druyts | Free | Allows browsing the Team Foundation Server (non-version control) storage for TFS 2013 or above. | |
TFS Team Project Manager | Administration | Jelle Druyts | Free | Automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server. | |
Associate Recent Work Items | Agile Planning | Free | Visual Studio Extension that allows you to easily associate changeset with your recent work items | ||
Flight Plan Board | Agile Planning | Free | An innovative visualisation project, part of the ALM Rangers Community and their continuous visualisation and technology research and collaboration initiative. | ||
Task Card Creator | Agile Planning | Community | Free | Small tool for printing task cards used for a Scrum board. Your Scrum board will be looking impressive. | |
Test Scribe | Agile Planning | VSTS Quality Tools | Free | Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artefacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc.. | |
TFS 2013 Merge Work Items Event Handler | Agile Planning | Free | TFS Server Plugin that automatically associate merged changesets with the associate work items from the merged branches | ||
TFS Aggregator | Agile Planning | Community | Free | Server side plugin for TFS that enables dynamic calculation of field values in TFS. (For example: Dev work + Test Work = Total Work). | |
TFS Kanban Tabular Model | Agile Planning | Jeff Levinson | Free | report on Kanban data through Excel Services or Power View and makes the data accessible outside of Team Foundation Server. | |
TFS Work ItemManager and TFS Project Dashboard | Agile Planning | Telerik | Free | Work item and Project Management Dashboard | |
TFS Workbench | Agile Planning | Community | Free | TFS Workbench is a rich desktop UI providing access to your Team Foundation Server Projects for primarily managing work items | |
Work Item FieldHistory | Agile Planning | Free | Audits a specific field of a work item, showing only the revisions in which its value has changed. | ||
Work Item Glass | Agile Planning | Pointe Smart | Free | Work Item Glass is an alternate client for Team Foundation Server whose target audience consists of those team members not in a traditional Developer role such . | |
Community TFS Build Extensions | Build and Continuous Integration | Community | Free | The Community TFS Build Extensions is a collection of workflow activities, build process template files, PowerShell scripts and tools for Team Foundation Build provided by the community. | |
TFS Work Item Morphing | Migration | Free | Purpose of this tool is to perform “In Place Conversion” of data from one format to another. | ||
MyHistory | Productivity | Free | Visual Studio ALM Rangers My History Team Explorer Extension | ||
TFS Board Enhancer | Productivity | Tiago Pascoal | Free | Adds features to TFS existing task board and kanban board that can be used on a day by day basis making it use easier. | |
Code Compare | Source Control | DevArt | Free | Compare and merge differing files and folders. Ships both as a standalone file diff tool and a Visual Studio extension. | |
TFS Branch Tool | Source Control | Free | Tool to automate branching task in the ALM Rangers branching guidance | ||
TFS Workspaces Cleaner | Source Control | Jelle Druyts | Free | Deletes Team Foundation Server workspaces that have not been accessed in a number of days, along with their files locally on disk. | |
TFS Team Rooms | Teams | Free | Access team rooms inside Visual Studio. | ||
TFS Team Tool | Teams | Free | Command line utility to manage TFS Teams | ||
Test Case Import Utility | Testing | Community | Free | Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artefacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. | |
News | Other | Free | Get Visual Studio Online news and updates inside Visual Studio. |